Patents by Inventor Yong-Hua Chen

Yong-Hua Chen 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).

  • Publication number: 20240094429
    Abstract: A ranging workflow to interpret the ultradeep harmonic anisotropic attenuation (UHAA) measurements and estimate the distance and orientation of the existing cased well from the well being drilled is presented herein. The ranging workflow applies to scenarios in which the wells are near parallel to each other and performs reasonably well in boreholes which are more or less perpendicular to the formation layers. The ranging workflow generally includes deploying a deep directional resistivity (DDR) tool into a new wellbore; collecting UHAA data via the DDR tool; determining resistivity values based at least in part on the UHAA data; and determining a distance of the DDR tool from a casing of an existing wellbore proximate the new wellbore based at least in part on the resistivity values and a UHAA response table for the DDR tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yong-Hua Chen, Saad Omar, Michael Thiel, Lin Liang
  • Publication number: 20240088804
    Abstract: Provided is a motor braking device for a N-phase brushless motor. The motor braking device includes a switching circuit adapted to connect the N-phase brushless motor to a power supply, the switching circuit comprising a high side switch group and a low side switch group, each of the high side switch group and the low side switch group comprising N switching elements, and a control unit configured to control the switching circuit to brake the motor based on occurrence of a first event, the first event chosen from a group consisting of release of a trigger by a user, and occurrence of a predetermined condition as detected by a sensor. The control unit is configured to, upon occurrence of the first event, switch all the switching elements of one of the high side switch group or the low side switch group to an on-state, and simultaneously switch all the switching elements of the other one of the high side switch group and the lower side switch group to an off-state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bao An ZHANG, Zi Cong CHEN, Li Hua XIE, Chao WEN, Yong Min LI
  • Patent number: 11656199
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for obtaining and analyzing flux leakage data. Embodiments may include measuring, using a magnetic flux leakage tool, magnetic flux leakage data from a casing and determining sensor liftoff data from the flux leakage data. Embodiments may also include performing outward analytic continuation of the magnetic flux leakage data from a sensor plane to one or more additional planes and extrapolating back from the one or more additional planes to a surface. Embodiments may include applying a model-based parametric inversion to the magnetic field flux leakage data and determining, based upon, at least in part, the model-based parametric inversion, a shape and size of a corresponding corroded area associated with the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Tarek M. Habashy
  • Publication number: 20210285915
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for obtaining and analyzing flux leakage data. Embodiments may include measuring, using a magnetic flux leakage tool, magnetic flux leakage data from a casing and determining sensor liftoff data from the flux leakage data. Embodiments may also include performing outward analytic continuation of the magnetic flux magnetic flux leakage data from a sensor plane to one or more additional planes and extrapolating back from the one or more additional planes to a surface. Embodiments may include applying a model-based parametric inversion to the magnetic field flux leakage data and determining, based upon, at least in part, the model-based parametric inversion, a shape and size of a corresponding corroded area associated with the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yong-Hua CHEN, Dzevat OMERAGIC, Tarek M. HABASHY
  • Patent number: 10571595
    Abstract: Methods for determining oil-water contact positions and water zone resistivities are provided. In one example, the method may involve performing a 1D inversion on data collected by a resistivity logging tool. Further, the method may involve scanning a resistivity profile of a reservoir generated by the 1D inversion for a boundary position below the resistivity logging tool. Furthermore, the method may involve applying a local residual weighted average on the boundary position to generate an initial estimation of an oil-water contact position and inverting the initial estimation of the oil-water contact to generate water zone resistivity and a modified oil-water contact position. Additionally, the method may involve running a smoothing local post-processing operation to generate a layered model and performing a 2D inversion on the layered model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shabnam Ghadar, Dzevat Omeragic, Christophe Dupuis, Michael Thiel, Yong-Hua Chen, Tarek M. Habashy
  • Patent number: 10527753
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses to generate a formation model are described. In one aspect, a logging system includes a transmitter to produce an electromagnetic field in a borehole, a receiver in the borehole to detect a first field signal induced by the electromagnetic field at a first depth of investigation and a second field signal induced by the electromagnetic field at a second depth of investigation, and a modeling unit to perform a first one-dimensional inversion on the first field signal and a second one-dimensional inversion on the second field signal, build a two-dimensional model from the first one-dimensional inversion and the second one-dimensional inversion, and perform a two-dimensional inversion on the two-dimensional model to generate a two-dimensional formation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christophe Dupuis, Dzevat Omeragic, Yong-Hua Chen, Tarek M. Habashy
  • Patent number: 10502858
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, via a processor, data from a plurality of imaging buttons disposed on a downhole tool within a borehole, generating, via the processor, a resistivity image, a permittivity image, a standoff curve, a rugosity index curve, a high-resolution image of a relationship between resistivity and permittivity of a section of a geological formation measured by the downhole tool, or some combination thereof based on the data, characterizing, via the processor, one or more vugs, one or more fractures, or some combination thereof based at least on the resistivity image, the permittivity image, the standoff curve, the rugosity index curve, the high-resolution image of the relationship between resistivity and permittivity, or some combination thereof, and identifying, via the processor, one or more rock types based at least on the high-resolution image of the relationship between resistivity and permittivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tianhua Zhang, Yong-Hua Chen, Robert Laronga
  • Publication number: 20170242147
    Abstract: Methods for determining oil-water contact positions and water zone resistivities are provided. In one example, the method may involve performing a 1D inversion on data collected by a resistivity logging tool. Further, the method may involve scanning a resistivity profile of a reservoir generated by the 1D inversion for a boundary position below the resistivity logging tool. Furthermore, the method may involve applying a local residual weighted average on the boundary position to generate an initial estimation of an oil-water contact position and inverting the initial estimation of the oil-water contact to generate water zone resistivity and a modified oil-water contact position. Additionally, the method may involve miming a smoothing local post-processing operation to generate a layered model and performing a 2D inversion on the layered model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Shabnam Ghadar, Dzevat Omeragic, Christophe Dupuis, Michael Thiel, Yong-Hua Chen, Tarek M. Habashy
  • Patent number: 9678239
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging properties of subterranean formations in a wellbore is provided. The system comprises a formation sensor for collecting currents injected into the subterranean formations, the formation sensor positionable on a downhole tool deployable into the wellbore. The system comprises a controller for controlling the formation sensor and a formation imaging unit. The formation imaging unit comprises a current management unit for collecting data from the currents injected into the subterranean formations, the currents having at least two different frequencies. The formation imaging unit comprises a drilling mud data unit for determining at least one drilling mud parameter, a formation data unit for determining at least one formation parameter from the collected data, and an inversion unit for determining at least one formation property by inverting the at least one formation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tarek M. Habashy, Andrew J. Hayman, Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Philip S Cheung
  • Publication number: 20170160421
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, via a processor, data from a plurality of imaging buttons disposed on a downhole tool within a borehole, generating, via the processor, a resistivity image, a permittivity image, a standoff curve, a rugosity index curve, a high-resolution image of a relationship between resistivity and permittivity of a section of a geological formation measured by the downhole tool, or some combination thereof based on the data, characterizing, via the processor, one or more vugs, one or more fractures, or some combination thereof based at least on the resistivity image, the permittivity image, the standoff curve, the rugosity index curve, the high-resolution image of the relationship between resistivity and permittivity, or some combination thereof, and identifying, via the processor, one or more rock types based at least on the high-resolution image of the relationship between resistivity and permittivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Tianhua Zhang, Yong-Hua Chen, Robert Laronga
  • Publication number: 20160245952
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses to generate a formation model are described. In one aspect, a logging system includes a transmitter to produce an electromagnetic field in a borehole, a receiver in the borehole to detect a first field signal induced by the electromagnetic field at a first depth of investigation and a second field signal induced by the electromagnetic field at a second depth of investigation, and a modeling unit to perform a first one-dimensional inversion on the first field signal and a second one-dimensional inversion on the second field signal, build a two-dimensional model from the first one-dimensional inversion and the second one-dimensional inversion, and perform a two-dimensional inversion on the two-dimensional model to generate a two-dimensional formation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Christophe Dupuis, Dzevat Omeragic, Yong-Hua Chen, Tarek M. Habashy
  • Publication number: 20150260874
    Abstract: Systems and methods for imaging properties of subterranean formations in a wellbore include a formation sensor for collecting currents injected into the subterranean formations and a formation imaging unit. The formation imaging unit includes a current management unit for collecting data from the currents injected into the subterranean formations and a formation data unit for determining at least one formation parameter from the collected data. The formation imaging unit also includes an inversion unit for determining at least one formation property by inverting the at least one formation parameter. The inversion unit is suitable for generating an inverted standoff image and an inverted permittivity image for comparison with a composite image of the formation imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Tarek M. Habashy
  • Publication number: 20140239960
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging properties of subterranean formations in a wellbore is provided. The system comprises a formation sensor for collecting currents injected into the subterranean formations, the formation sensor positionable on a downhole tool deployable into the wellbore. The system comprises a controller for controlling the formation sensor and a formation imaging unit. The formation imaging unit comprises a current management unit for collecting data from the currents injected into the subterranean formations, the currents having at least two different frequencies. The formation imaging unit comprises a drilling mud data unit for determining at least one drilling mud parameter, a formation data unit for determining at least one formation parameter from the collected data, and an inversion unit for determining at least one formation property by inverting the at least one formation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Tarek M. Habashy, Andrew J. Hayman, Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Philip S Cheung
  • Publication number: 20140191762
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging properties of subterranean formations in a wellbore is provided. The system comprises a formation sensor for collecting currents injected into the subterranean formations, the formation sensor positionable on a downhole tool deployable into the wellbore. The system comprises a controller for controlling the formation sensor and a formation imaging unit. The formation imaging unit comprises a current management unit for collecting data from the currents injected into the subterranean formations, the currents having at least two different frequencies. The formation imaging unit comprises a drilling mud data unit for determining at least one drilling mud parameter, a formation data unit for determining at least one formation parameter from the collected data, and an inversion unit for determining at least one formation property by inverting the at least one formation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Tarek M. Habashy, Richard J. Bloemenkamp
  • Patent number: 8754651
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging properties of subterranean formations in a wellbore is provided. The system comprises a formation sensor for collecting currents injected into the subterranean formations, the formation sensor positionable on a downhole tool deployable into the wellbore. The system comprises a controller for controlling the formation sensor and a formation imaging unit. The formation imaging unit comprises a current management unit for collecting data from the currents injected into the subterranean formations, the currents having at least two different frequencies. The formation imaging unit comprises a drilling mud data unit for determining at least one drilling mud parameter, a formation data unit for determining at least one formation parameter from the collected data, and an inversion unit for determining at least one formation property by inverting the at least one formation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Tarek Habashy, Andrew Hayman, Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Philip Cheung
  • Patent number: 8671732
    Abstract: An oil-pressure swaging tool for rebuilding a connecting pipe includes an abutting member abutting against an oil-pressure device, a connector inserted into a connecting pipe, one end of a first axial member passing through the abutting member to connect to one end of the connector, another end of the first axial member connected to the oil-pressure device, a rebuilding member assembled to another end of the connecting pipe, a pressure collar adjacent to one end of the rebuilding member, one end of a second axial member passing through the rebuilding member to connected to the pressure collar, another end of the second axial member connected to another end of the connector. Therefore, when the opening of the connecting pipe is rebuilt by the oil-pressure swaging tool of the present invention, one end of the connecting pipe is not necessary to abut against a wall because of the abutting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: Yong-Hua Chen
  • Publication number: 20130255348
    Abstract: An oil-pressure swaging tool for rebuilding a connecting pipe includes an abutting member abutting against an oil-pressure device, a connector inserted into a connecting pipe, one end of a first axial member passing through the abutting member to connect to one end of the connector, another end of the first axial member connected to the oil-pressure device, a rebuilding member assembled to another end of the connecting pipe, a pressure collar adjacent to one end of the rebuilding member, one end of a second axial member passing through the rebuilding member to connected to the pressure collar, another end of the second axial member connected to another end of the connector. Therefore, when the opening of the connecting pipe is rebuilt by the oil-pressure swaging tool of the present invention, one end of the connecting pipe is not necessary to abut against a wall because of the abutting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Yong-Hua Chen
  • Patent number: 8489375
    Abstract: LWD measurements to be used for proactive well placement while drilling a high angle or horizontal wellbore in a reservoir are defined. An initial reservoir model is provided and a section is extracted for a planned wellbore trajectory. A secondary model is generated for the planned trajectory. An area of interest is identified where statistical uncertainty is high. Possible causes of the statistical uncertainty are identified that are not present in the initial reservoir model. A set of parameters are defined based on the possible causes of statistical uncertainty. The area of interest is logged with LWD tool. Sensitivities of the LWD tool response to a subset of parameters are evaluated by performing tertiary model for a range of the subset of parameters. The most sensitive parameters from the subset of parameters and corresponding measurements are identified. LWD measurements are defined based on the most sensitive parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Dzevat Omeragic, Tarek M. Habashy, Valery Polyakov, Raymond Kocian, Yong-Hua Chen, Sofia Davydycheva, Raphael Altman, Carlos Maeso, Douglas Hupp
  • Publication number: 20120119744
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging properties of subterranean formations in a wellbore is provided. The system comprises a formation sensor for collecting currents injected into the subterranean formations, the formation sensor positionable on a downhole tool deployable into the wellbore. The system comprises a controller for controlling the formation sensor and a formation imaging unit. The formation imaging unit comprises a current management unit for collecting data from the currents injected into the subterranean formations, the currents having at least two different frequencies. The formation imaging unit comprises a drilling mud data unit for determining at least one drilling mud parameter, a formation data unit for determining at least one formation parameter from the collected data, and an inversion unit for determining at least one formation property by inverting the at least one formation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Tarek Habashy, Andrew Hayman, Yong-Hua Chen, Dzevat Omeragic, Philip Cheung
  • Publication number: 20110106514
    Abstract: Methods for three-dimensionally characterizing a reservoir while drilling a high angle or horizontal wellbore through the reservoir are disclosed. An initial reservoir model for the reservoir is selected and a section is extracted for a planned trajectory of the wellbore. A secondary model is generated by performing secondary modeling for at least part of the planned trajectory. An area of interest is identified within the secondary model where statistical uncertainty is high. Possible causes of the statistical uncertainty are identified for the area of interest within the secondary model that are not present or accounted for in the initial reservoir model. A set of parameters for the area of interest are defined at that are based on the possible causes of statistical uncertainty. The area of interest is logged with at least one logging while drilling LWD tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Dzevat Omeragic, Tarek M. Habashy, Valery Polyakov, Raymond Kocian, Yong-Hua Chen, Sofia Davydycheva, Raphael Altman, Carlos Maeso, Douglas Hupp