Patents by Inventor Wenxia Yang

Wenxia Yang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Estimation of formation properties based on borehole fluid and drilling logs
    Patent number: 10370964
    Abstract: A method of estimating one or more properties of an earth formation includes disposing a carrier in a borehole in an earth formation as part of an energy industry operation, receiving borehole fluid from the borehole, estimating at least one property of the borehole fluid associated with one or more intervals along the borehole, and generating a mud log that indicates values of the at least one property at the one or more intervals, the at least one property including at least one of gas content and cuttings content. The method also includes estimating, by a processor, one or more properties of the formation based on the mud log, the one or more properties selected from at least one of lithology, permeability, total organic carbon and brittleness, and controlling one or more operational parameters of the energy industry operation based on the one or more properties of the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Wenxia Yang, Xiaomei Zhang
  • ESTIMATION OF FORMATION PROPERTIES BASED ON BOREHOLE FLUID AND DRILLING LOGS
    Publication number: 20170260855
    Abstract: A method of estimating one or more properties of an earth formation includes disposing a carrier in a borehole in an earth formation as part of an energy industry operation, receiving borehole fluid from the borehole, estimating at least one property of the borehole fluid associated with one or more intervals along the borehole, and generating a mud log that indicates values of the at least one property at the one or more intervals, the at least one property including at least one of gas content and cuttings content. The method also includes estimating, by a processor, one or more properties of the formation based on the mud log, the one or more properties selected from at least one of lithology, permeability, total organic carbon and brittleness, and controlling one or more operational parameters of the energy industry operation based on the one or more properties of the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Wenxia Yang, Xiaomei Zhang