By Induction Or Resistivity Logging Tool Patents (Class 702/7)
  • Patent number: 11892584
    Abstract: Methods of marine to borehole measurement may include dispersing one or more borehole receivers in one or more boreholes; distributing one or more marine receivers in marine water at a seabed; immersing an electromagnetic dipole source in the marine water above the seabed; energizing the electromagnetic dipole source; measuring one or more borehole signal measurements using the one or more borehole receivers and one or more seabed signal measurements using the one or more marine receivers; and determining a three-dimensional property distribution of a reservoir of interest by processing the one or more borehole signal measurements and the one or more seabed signal measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alberto Marsala, Nestor Herman Cuevas Maldonado, Andrea Lovatini, Mohammed Badri
  • Patent number: 11874425
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a blind spot in one or more decoupled measurements. The method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic well measurement system into a wellbore. The electromagnetic well measurement system comprise an electromagnetic transmitter and a plurality of electromagnetic receivers. The method may further comprise transmitting electromagnetic fields into a formation with the electromagnetic transmitter, measuring the electromagnetic fields with the plurality of electromagnetic receivers as one or more measurements at one or more depths in the wellbore, decoupling the one or more measurements to form decoupled measurements, identifying if a blind spot is in the decoupled measurements, and performing an inversion with the decoupled measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Pan, Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yi Jing Fan, Jin Ma
  • Patent number: 11852778
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for developing a reservoir. In one implementation, observed data points in a volume along a well trajectory and well logs corresponding to observed data points are received at a neural network. Feature vectors are generated using the neural network. The feature vectors are defined based on a distance between each of the observed data points and randomly generated points in the volume. A 3D populated log is generated by propagating well log values of the feature vectors across the volume. Uncertainty is quantified by generating a plurality of realizations including the 3D populated log. Each of the realizations is different and equally probable. core values are generated from the realizations, and a static model of the reservoir is generated by clustering the volume into one or more clusters of rock types based on the core values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEYOND LIMITS, INC.
    Inventors: Azarang Golmohammadizangabad, Shahram Farhadi Nia
  • Patent number: 11782180
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to calibrating a formation signal for a mixed set measurement device. A first air-hang response of a first measurement device for a tubular string associated with a drilling operation can be measured. A second air-hang response of a second measurement device for the tubular string associated with the drilling operation can be measured. The first air-hang response and the second air-hang response can be used to determine a mixed air-hang response of the mixed set measurement device. The mixed air-hang response can be used to calibrate a formation signal for the mixed set measurement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Ma, Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Li Pan, Yijing Fan
  • Patent number: 11761330
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a subsurface sensor to be positioned in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation, wherein the subsurface sensor is to detect subsurface measurements. The apparatus includes a processor and a machine-readable medium having program code executable by the processor to cause the processor to generate a combination of functions based on the subsurface measurements, wherein the combination of functions is a subset of functions from a library of functions. The program code is executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine at least one function parameter of at least one function of the combination of functions and determine at least one formation property of the subsurface formation based on the at least one function parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Bin Dai
  • Patent number: 11728693
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of apparatuses and methods for optimizing pairing of a wireless power transmission system (WPTS) with a wireless power receiver client (WPRC) in a localized system. A current WPTS-WPRC pairing and at least one alternate WPTS-WPRC pairing are assessed and the WPTS-WPRC pairing is updated based on associated pairing quality metrics. In this way, a system of many WPTSs and WPRCs will approach an Epsilon equilibrium such that no WPRC would be significantly better served by being paired with a different WPTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: OSSIA INC.
    Inventors: Philip L. Swan, Hatem I. Zeine
  • Patent number: 11719849
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a dielectric measurement of a portion of a downhole formation. The method also includes processing the dielectric measurement via a trained machine learning system. The method further includes determining at least one of a classification or a textural parameter simultaneously with formation water saturation of the downhole formation, via the machine learning system, based at least in part on the dielectric measurement. The machine learning system is based on a pre-determined dataset from previous measurements or simulated results of synthetic cases. The method determining the correlation between water saturation and formation texture through a frequency cascading training process based on sensitivity of complex dielectric spectrum with respect to desired parameters including water saturation and texture parameter. The method also includes assigning at least one of the classification or the textural parameter to the downhole formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Yinxi Zhang, Sushant Dutta
  • Patent number: 11703610
    Abstract: Data filtering and processing techniques for generating improved wellbore resistivity maps are contemplated. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving a plurality of measurement sets, wherein each measurement set includes electromagnetic field data associated with a geologic formation, performing an inversion on each of the plurality of measurement sets to generate a corresponding plurality of formation profiles, and applying a filter to each of the formation profiles to generate a plurality of profile clusters. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for selecting a representative cluster from among the profile clusters for use in generating a wellbore resistivity map. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Jin Ma
  • Patent number: 11649722
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated filtering and normalization of logging data for improved drilling performance may enable smoothing and amplitude scaling of log data for meaningful comparison and analysis without scaling artefacts. The logging data may be collected from downhole sensors or may be recorded by a control system used for drilling. A computer implemented method may enable industrial scale automated filtering and normalization of logging data, including calibration to a known standard. In particular, the filtering and normalization may be used for stratigraphic analysis to correlate true vertical depth to measured depth along a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Magnetic Variation Services, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Maus, Qianlong Liu, Alexander Michael Mitkus, Kenneth Robert McCarthy, Jin Sun, Andrew Robert Paré
  • Patent number: 11643920
    Abstract: A method includes deploying a logging tool in a borehole formed in a subsurface formation, the logging tool having a transmitter and a receiver, wherein a condition that is present during logging comprises at least one of a shape of the borehole is non-circular and the logging tool is off-center within the borehole. The method includes emitting, by the transmitter, a signal into subsurface formation and detecting, by the receiver, a response to the signal being propagated through the subsurface formation. The method includes creating, from the response, a borehole image that includes features in the subsurface formation and correcting the features, wherein correcting the features comprises mapping points of a non-circular shape in the borehole image into a plane substantially perpendicular to an axis of the borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nam Nguyen, David Orlando Torres, Gary Wayne Kainer
  • Patent number: 11613983
    Abstract: Analysis and control of drilling mud and additives is disclosed using a mud analysis system and a mud additive system that may automatically monitor and control the drilling mud during drilling of a well. The mud analysis system may acquire measurements on a sample of the drilling mud during drilling, and may send signals indicative of the drilling mud to a steering control system enabled to control the drilling. The steering control system may receive user input or may make decisions regarding additives to be added to the drilling mud and the timing thereof. The mud additive system may be enabled to receive commands from the steering control system and mix and add additives to the drilling mud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd W. Benson, George Michalopulos, Richard Kulavik, Jarrod Shawn Deverse
  • Patent number: 11578586
    Abstract: A method may comprise measuring during a survey operation a gravitational field data using a survey accelerometer and magnetic field data using a survey magnetometer and determining during a drilling operation an azimuth of a wellbore based on the gravitational field data and the magnetic field data obtained during the survey operation. A system may comprise a drilling rig; a pipe string attached to the drilling rig; a bottom hole assembly attached to the pipe string, wherein the bottom hole assembly comprises at least one sensor; a drill bit, wherein the at least one sensor measure a revolutions-per-minute (RPM) of the drill bit; and a computing subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Rashobh Rajan Sobhana
  • Patent number: 11561313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: clipping an average velocity grid of a seismic reference surface (SRSAV), in an oil and gas field, to remove average velocity data of a region containing high-angle, horizontal (HA/HZ) boreholes, wherein the seismic reference surface approximates a geological reference surface; based on (i) a depth grid of the geological reference surface (GRSD) generated using HA/HZ borehole data, and (ii) a time grid of the seismic reference surface (SRST), generating borehole average velocity grid (BAV) along the HA/HZ boreholes; gridding the BAV with the clipped SRSAV to generate a hybrid seismic borehole average velocity grid (HSBAV) of the oil and gas field; and based on the HSBAV and the SRST, generating a hybrid seismic geological depth grid (HSGD) of the oil and gas field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Troy W. Thompson, Jay Vogt
  • Patent number: 11520071
    Abstract: A subterranean earth formation is evaluated by running a process with a logging tool residing in a borehole in the earth formation to collect shallow measurements of a property of the formation and deep measurements of the property of the formation. An inversion is performed on the shallow measurements to produce a group of possible formation models that fit the shallow measurements. A machine-learning algorithm is applied to estimate the shallow formation structure, using the group of possible formation models that fit the shallow measurements, to produce a shallow formation structure. An inversion is performed on the deep measurements to produce a group of possible formation models that fit the deep measurements. The shallow formation structure is expanded using the group of possible formation models that fit the deep measurements to produce a deep formation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Weixin Dong
  • Patent number: 11499935
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for clay detection, clay typing, and clay volume quantification using electromagnetic measurements on a porous media sample at a low frequency less than 5000 Hz. The electromagnetic measurements are used to determine and store permittivity data that characterizes permittivity of the porous media sample at the low frequency less than 5000 Hz. The low frequency electromagnetic measurements can be performed in a laboratory, at a wellsite or other surface location. The low frequency electromagnetic measurements are nondestructive, and the results indicate that the methods and systems are highly sensitive to the existence of clays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Wael Abdallah, Ping Zhang, Shouxiang Ma, Chengbing Liu
  • Patent number: 11467312
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of determining one or more characteristics associated with a borehole, a computer program product that directs operations of a processor when executed to determine characteristics associated with a borehole, and a borehole characterizing system. In one example the method includes: (1) receiving azimuthal electromagnetic signals obtained in the borehole, wherein the azimuthal electromagnetic signals are transmitted at two operating frequencies in the borehole, (2) decoupling orientation components from the azimuthal electromagnetic signals of the two frequencies, (3) determining one or more borehole characteristics using one or more of the orientation components at the two operating frequencies, and (4) performing a borehole correction based on at least one of the one or more borehole characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Pan, Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yijing Fan
  • Patent number: 11441420
    Abstract: Well completion is accomplished by obtaining a sample of geological material from the subsurface and generating primary data for the sample of geological material. The primary data include textural data, chemical data and mineralogical data. The primary data are used to derive secondary data for the sample of geological material, and the primary data and the secondary data are used to generate tertiary data for the sample of geological material. The tertiary data are a quantification of physical characteristics of the sample of geological material. The primary data, secondary data and tertiary data are used to determine a location of a stage along a well and an arrangement of perforation clusters in the stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CGG SERVICES SAS
    Inventors: Graham Spence, Chi Vinh Ly, Guy Oliver
  • Patent number: 11402539
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method that includes extracting a low resolution formation property model and a high resolution formation property model from at least one log. The method also includes splitting the extracted low resolution formation property model into one or more property compositions. The method also includes generating a high resolution virtual core via the low resolution formation property model and at least a second high resolution formation property, the high resolution virtual core utilizing a moving window analysis to accommodate between different resolutions of the second high resolution formation property model and the low resolution property composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Nora Patricia Alarcon
  • Patent number: 11367248
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to evaluate formation resistivity. The method includes obtaining, from a downhole tool deployed in a borehole, a plurality of values of formation resistivity of a downhole formation proximate the borehole. The method also includes generating a plurality of two-dimensional renderings of the formation resistivity based on the plurality of values, wherein each two-dimensional rendering of the plurality of two-dimensional renderings illustrates an inversion of the formation resistivity along a plane of the downhole formation. The method further includes generating a volumetric rendering of the formation resistivity of the downhole formation from the plurality of two-dimensional renderings, wherein the volumetric rendering comprises a plurality of two-dimensional planes, and wherein each two-dimensional plane of the plurality of two-dimensional planes illustrates an inversion of formation resistivity along the respective plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Miao, William David Bethancourt, Jeremy James Combs, Juan Carlos Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11365625
    Abstract: A method for determining mud properties may comprise taking multi-frequency measurement data with a downhole tool, selecting an injector electrode from the one or more injector electrodes for the multi-frequency measurement data, selecting data from the multi-frequency measurement data with low resistivity or a large standoff, creating a forward model based at least partially on the selected data by making initial guesses of model parameters for one or more mud properties, performing a cost function minimization with the forward model, identifying from the cost function minimization if a misfit is above or below a threshold, and identifying the one or more mud properties based at least in part on the cost function minimization. A system may comprise a downhole tool including a mandrel, one or more arms, one or more pads, and one or more injector electrodes. The system may further include an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Bin Ewe, Ruijia Wang, Baris Guner
  • Patent number: 11300702
    Abstract: A wellbore visualization system can receive electromagnetic field data related to a formation from a downhole tool in a wellbore. The visualization system generates a first inversion slice that represents an inversion of the electromagnetic field data about the formation at a first true vertical depth. The visualization system generates a second inversion slice that represents an inversion of the electromagnetic field data about the formation at a second true vertical depth. The visualization system generates an inversion stack comprising the first inversion slice and the second inversion slice. The visualization system presents a user interface comprising the inversion stack for use to determine a distance from the formation to the downhole tool in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Bronwyn Michelle Djefel
  • Patent number: 11268374
    Abstract: A monitoring and mapping system, including: at least four transceiver devices arranged to be applied at a predefined mutual distance along a casing pipe, each of the transceiver devices including: a tubular body arranged to be fit on the casing pipe, the tubular body having at a first end a first longitudinal portion, at a second end a second longitudinal portion and a third longitudinal portion interposed between the first and second longitudinal portions; a coil wound on the first longitudinal portion; a layer of elastomeric material which winds the third longitudinal portion; an electrode wound on the layer of elastomeric material; and a peripheral electronic control unit associated with the tubular body; the monitoring and mapping system further including a central electronic control and data acquisition unit configured to drive the peripheral electronic control units so as to selectively power the electrodes and the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Dell'Aversana, Franco Bottazzi, Claudio Molaschi, Carlo Carniani, Germana Gallino, Raffaele Servodio
  • Patent number: 11248457
    Abstract: A method includes deploying a logging tool in a borehole formed in a subsurface formation. The logging tool has a transmitter and a receiver. The method includes emitting, by the transmitter, a signal into subsurface formation. The method includes detecting, by the receiver, a response to the signal being propagated through the subsurface formation. The method includes creating, from the response, a borehole image that includes distorted features representing bedding dips in the subsurface formation. The method includes correcting the distorted features, wherein correcting the distorted features comprises mapping points of a non-circular shape in the borehole image to points on a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nam Nguyen, David Orlando Torres, Gary Wayne Kainer
  • Patent number: 11216926
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling borehole imaging blending through machine learning. A blending parameter machine learning model can be trained through a supervised machine learning technique with a dataset of known input and known output associated with an electromagnetic imager tool. The blending parameter machine learning model is associated with an image blending technique for blending images generated through the electromagnetic imager tool at different frequencies. One or more blending parameters for the image blending technique can be identified by applying the blending parameter machine learning model to measurements of the electromagnetic imager tool operating to log a wellbore across a plurality of frequencies. One or more blended images can be generated by applying the image blending technique according to the one or more blending parameters to a plurality of images of the measurements made by the electromagnetic imager tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Baris Guner, Ahmed Elsayed Fouda
  • Patent number: 11180984
    Abstract: A drilling method includes collecting survey data at a drilling site, and determining a waypoint or borehole path based on the survey data. The drilling method also includes sending the survey data to a remote monitoring facility that applies corrections to the survey data. The drilling method also includes receiving the corrected survey data, and automatically updating the waypoint or borehole path based on the corrected survey data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Johannes Dirksen, Ian David Campbell Mitchell, Jon Troy Gosney
  • Patent number: 11150375
    Abstract: An electromagnetic (EM) data acquisition method for a geological formation may include operating EM measurement devices to determine phase and amplitude data from the geological formation. The EM measurement devices may include at least one first EM measurement device within a borehole in the geological formation, and at least one second EM measurement device at a surface of the geological formation. The method may further include processing the phase data independent from the amplitude data to generate a geological constituent map of the geological formation, and identifying different geological constituents in the geological constituent map based upon the measured amplitude data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ping Zhang, Nestor Cuevas, Michael Wilt, Jiuping Chen
  • Patent number: 11118441
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimized geosteering include creating a parameter matrix, which comprises a formation property for each pair of true vertical depth (TVD) coordinates from a geological model and measured depth (MD) coordinates from a predefined well trajectory; updating the parameter matrix by replacing the TVD coordinates and the MD coordinates for each parameter entry in the parameter matrix with the TVD coordinates and the MD coordinates for an actual well trajectory; and compiling a distance to bed boundary (DTBB) array and one or more other logging while drilling (LWD) arrays using corresponding measurements at the MD coordinates of the actual well trajectory; and calculating a value for each parameter entry in the updated parameter matrix, which is a sum of a geology array, the DTBB array and the one or more other LWD arrays that are each multiplied by respectively assigned or calculated weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jin Ma, Rencheng Song, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11092713
    Abstract: A method for making downhole electromagnetic logging measurements of a subterranean formation is disclosed. An electromagnetic logging tool is rotated in a subterranean wellbore. The tool includes a transmitter axially spaced apart from a receiver. The transmitter may include an axial transmitting antenna and at least one transverse transmitting antenna and the receiver may include an axial receiving antenna and at least one transverse receiving antenna. The transmitting antennas transmit corresponding electromagnetic waves into the subterranean wellbore. The receiving antennas receive corresponding voltage measurements which are processed to compute harmonic voltage coefficients. Ratios of the selected harmonic voltage coefficients are processed to compute gain compensated, azimuthally invariant measurement quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter T. Wu, Mark T. Frey
  • Patent number: 11092714
    Abstract: A method for transforming an earth formation and/or production equipment based on correcting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data to account for partially water-saturated rock includes: receiving NMR logging data having echo-trains for an earth formation; inverting the echo-trains to provide transverse relaxation time constant (T2) distributions for various components of fluid in the earth formation; substituting a T2 distribution for mobile water of fully water-saturated rock for a T2 distribution for mobile water of partially water-saturated rock based on values of the mobile water T2 distribution of partially water-saturated rock and a total porosity constraint; summing the T2 distribution for mobile water of fully water-saturated rock and a T2 distribution for an immobile water component of the fluid to provide a T2, distribution for fully water-saturated rock; and transforming the earth formation and/or the production equipment based on a parameter derived from the T2 distribution for fully water-satura
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin, Julio Roberto Arro, Alberto Mezzatesta
  • Patent number: 11086046
    Abstract: A system and method for the calibration of downhole azimuthally sensitive resistivity tools is disclosed. The system and method can eliminate and/or compensate for the measurement errors due to the electronic circuit, the mechanical structure, etc., of the tool. The system and method also can validate the measurement accuracy. The downhole azimuthal resistivity logging tool can be, but not limited to, the LWD azimuthal resistivity tools with coil(s) oriented in the directions other than the tool axis. In one embodiment, the system is constructed by the azimuthal resistivity tool, a tilted calibration loop made of conductive wire; an external resistor; and an external inductor. Some other method embodiment comprises an azimuthal resistivity tool, a semicircular conductive wire connected with a conductivity rectangular wire, and the external resistor and inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MAXWELL DYNAMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hu Li, John Qiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11073463
    Abstract: Methods for simulating the movement of fluid through a formation volume comprises defining a lab-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability along a single well location within a formation volume and converting the lab-scale model to a field-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability at the single well location. The field-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability is correlated with field-scale log data and interpolated between multiple well locations so as to create a field-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability across the formation volume so that the movement of fluid through the formation volume can be simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: W.D. Von Gonten Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Roberto Suarez-Rivera, William D. Von Gonten, Jr., Safdar Ali, John Degenhardt, Bradley Abell
  • Patent number: 11035976
    Abstract: Numerical and/or semi-analytical methods are leveraged to decouple a complete set of nonzero electromagnetic field tensor components (118) from detected signal data (119). Nine nonzero components can serve as inputs for a three-dimensional inversion process to determine formation properties. A resistivity tool (100) containing at least one transmitter (111) and at least one receiver (108, 109) at tilted angles receives an electromagnetic signal throughout a rotation. A difference in the azimuthal positions of the transmitter(s) and receiver(s) during rotation of the resistivity tool can result in an azimuthal offset between resistivity tool subs. The components (118) are decoupled from the detected signal data (119) numerically or semi-analytically according to whether the azimuthal offset angle is known. If the azimuthal offset angle is known, the nine components are determined numerically through curve fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Junsheng Hou, Michael S. Bittar, Yijing Fan, Li Pan, Jin Ma
  • Patent number: 10954782
    Abstract: An example method for modeling a geological formation includes receiving a set of measurements from an electromagnetic logging tool and representing at least one characteristic of the geological formation as at least one continuous spatial function. At least one coefficient of the at least one continuous spatial function may be determined based, at least in part, on the set of measurements. At least one characteristic of the geological formation may be determined based, at least in part, on the at least one continuous spatial function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Andrew Wilson, Burkay Donderici
  • Patent number: 10928540
    Abstract: A method for use with a subterranean well can include modeling multiple fluid types in an annulus formed between casing and an earth formation penetrated by a wellbore, inverting electromagnetic data acquired by sensors in the well, and selecting at least one of the fluid types based on the inverting. A system for use with a subterranean well can include multiple sensors longitudinally spaced apart along a casing in a wellbore, each of the sensors imparting electromagnetic impulses to a fluid present in an annulus formed between the casing and the wellbore, and each of the sensors providing observed data indicative of at least one physical property associated with the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn A. Wilson, Burkay Donderici, Yan-Wah M. Chia, Krishna M. Ravi
  • Patent number: 10928542
    Abstract: A method may comprise: inserting into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation an apparatus comprising: a transmitter sub comprising a transmitter coil; a first receiver sub comprising a first receiver coil; a second receiver sub comprising a second receiver coil; and a third receiver sub comprising a third receiver coil; generating an electromagnetic wave at the transmitter coil; propagating the electromagnetic wave through the subterranean formation; receiving the electromagnetic wave in the first receiver coil, the second receiver coil, and the third receiver coil; generating a plurality of response signals, wherein the plurality of response signals comprises a first response signal in the first receiver coil, a second response signal in the second receiver coil, and a third response signal the third receiver coil; solving a series of linear equations defined by an orientation of the transmitter sub in the wellbore, orientation in the wellbore for each of the first receiver coil, the second receiver
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Pan, Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yijing Fan
  • Patent number: 10914858
    Abstract: A system and method of correcting induction logging data for relative dip, wherein an induction logging tool is utilized to collect initial induction logging data at a plurality of frequencies. The initial induction logging data is then corrected for skin effect and borehole effect, after which, inversion is performed on the processed induction logging data to determine a dip effect correction. The dip effect correction is then applied to the initial induction logging data in order to yield induction logging data that is dip corrected to reflect a zero relative dip. Once dip corrected, the induction logging data can be used with resistivity methodologies generally designed for instances where no dip is present in the formation under analysis. In certain embodiments, the inversion step utilizes an additive correction for the dip effect correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ferhat Turker Celepcikay, Luis San Martin, Burkay Donderici, Dagang Wu
  • Patent number: 10908305
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for evaluating a geophysical survey acquisition geometry over a region of interest. The method comprises determining a location of a plurality of base camps in respect of a determined minimal surface density of base camps, determining a first set of locations of a plurality of receivers in respect of a determined minimal surface density of receivers, generating a first synthetic geophysical dataset based on the first geophysical survey acquisition geometry, processing the first synthetic geophysical dataset for obtaining a first simulated image of the subsurface of the region of interest using a geophysical processing algorithm and an a priori subsurface model, and calculating a first objective function dependent of at least a first quality index of the first simulated image of the subsurface of the region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOTAL SA
    Inventors: Rémi Estival, Jean-Luc Boelle, Peigen Xie, Jean-Baptiste Laffitte, Henri Puntous, Francis Clément, Paul Barbier
  • Patent number: 10903686
    Abstract: The invention relates to an energy transmission device (1, 10) for the contactless transmission of electric energy, comprising several transmitting coils (2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 30, 31, 32), several receiver coils (4, 5, 14, 15), and a control device (6, 16) which is designed to sequentially control a predetermined number of the transmitting coils (2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 30, 31, 32) in an energy transmission mode. The invention further relates to a corresponding energy transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Schumann, Steffen Eppler
  • Patent number: 10883341
    Abstract: One or more wellbore trajectories and respective control inputs are determined which meet a wellbore trajectory model, a constraint, and a wellbore length. A wellbore trajectory and respective control input from the one or more wellbore trajectories and respective control inputs are then identified which minimize a cost function associated with the performance objective. The control input associated with this wellbore trajectory are output to a drilling system for drilling a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nazli Demirer, Umut Zalluhoglu, Julien Christian Valery Marek, Robert Darbe
  • Patent number: 10839278
    Abstract: An electromagnetic exploration method using a full-coverage anti-interference artificial source, comprising the steps of: (1) determining the scope and location of the measuring area; (2) field-exploring to determine the location of the transmitting source and the angle of the transmitting antenna; (3) calculating the maximum polarization direction angle of the electric field generated by the antenna at each measuring point; (4) arranging electric field sensors according to the polarization directions; (5) calculating the apparent resistivity of each measuring point. The method of the present disclosure obtains the earth resistivity using the reliable data with high signal-to-noise ratio. The field construction is flexible and convenient, the construction efficiency is high and the cost is low. The present disclosure provides a new development direction for the electromagnetic exploration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Changmin Fu, Qingyun Di, Miaoyue Wang, Da Lei, Ruo Wang, Zhiguo An, Xiaotian Wang, Jieyu Tan, Xiaolei Tu
  • Patent number: 10783693
    Abstract: A separate three-dimensional (3D) integration filter mask if precomputed for each of x, y, and z dimensions with a given operator length. A portion of a 3D post-stack seismic data set is received for processing and loaded into a generated 3D-sub-cube. The separate 3D integration filter masks are applied to the loaded 3D-sub-cube to generate filtered 3D-sub-cube data. The square mean of the 3D-sub-cube is calculated to generate smoothed 3D-sub-cube data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Saleh Al-Dossary, Jinsong Wang
  • Patent number: 10774636
    Abstract: Transient responses of a tri-axial resistivity tool corresponding to an electromagnetic (EM) impulse are derived. A transient response of a directional resistivity tool (DRT) corresponding to the EM impulse is derived based on the transient responses of the tri-axial resistivity tool. A theoretical late time transient response of the DRT is derived based on the transient response of the DRT. The late time transient response of the DRT is measured. An anisotropy, a horizontal conductivity, and a dip angle are determined based on the measured late time transient response and the theoretical late time transient response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Teruhiko Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10683743
    Abstract: A method for drilling, comprising receiving, by a surface steerable system coupled to a drilling rig, BHA information from a rotary steerable bottom hole assembly (BHA) located in a borehole, calculating, by the surface steerable system, torsional and spatial forces acting on the rotary steerable BHA at a first location of the rotary steerable BHA with respect to a target drilling path responsive to the BHA information, calculating, by the surface steerable system, a first vector to create a convergence path from the first location of the rotary steerable BHA to the target drilling path that accounts for the torsional and the spatial forces acting on the rotary steerable BHA, causing, by the surface steerable system, at least one drilling parameter to be modified in order to alter a drilling direction of the rotary steerable BHA based on the calculated first vector, transmitting the at least one drilling parameter to the drilling rig to target the rotary steerable BHA in accordance with the first vector, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd W. Benson, Teddy Chen, Joel Wilmes
  • Patent number: 10677034
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling hydrocarbon production includes (i) identifying a plurality of reservoir measurements of a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir located between at least one injection wellbore and at least one production wellbore; (ii) processing the identified plurality of reservoir measurements to generate a petrophysical model of the subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir; (iii) determining, based on the petrophysical model, a flow of an injectant from the injection wellbore toward the production wellbore; and (iv) adjusting an inflow control device (ICD) positioned about the production wellbore based on the determined flow of the injectant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Huseyin Onur Balan, Anuj Gupta, Daniel T. Georgi, Ali Alkhatib, Alberto F. Marsala
  • Patent number: 10670765
    Abstract: The present invention features a unique system of interdependent methods to greatly improve data acquired via the Differential Target Antenna Coupling (“DTAC”) method, which transmits electromagnetic (“EM”) fields and measures the primary EM field and the secondary EM fields generated in subsurface targets. These new data correction techniques provide improvements, in orders of magnitude, to the measured DTAC response accuracy. This improvement allows for greater depth of investigation, improved target location, and enhanced target characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    Inventor: Ben K. Sternberg
  • Patent number: 10664635
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining non-linear petrofacies using cross-plot partitioning to define petrofacies boundaries that distinguish the petrofacies by appearance and/or composition using systematic and automated data analysis techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Jeremiah Kho, Travis St. George Ramsay
  • Patent number: 10649110
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for evaluating a volume of an earth formation wherein the volume comprises a fluid-saturated rock matrix including clay particles. Methods include making measurements of complex permittivity at a plurality of frequencies using an electromagnetic tool in a borehole penetrating the earth formation; and estimating a plurality of parameters of interest simultaneously using the measurements at the plurality of frequencies and a mixing model accounting for electrical effects on the measurements caused by the clay particles. The plurality may include at least: i) water saturation; and ii) resistivity of formation water. Parameters of interest may comprise at least one of: i) an electrical parameter of the volume; and ii) a textural parameter of the volume. Methods may include modeling for electrical effects caused by at least one of: i) a surface conductivity of the clay particles; and ii) a textural property of the clay particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Yinxi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10495780
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium product for correcting a shale volume estimated from gamma ray information using a continuous radial profile of horizontal resistivity in the invaded zone and a continuous profile of anisotropy. The continuous radial profile of horizontal resistivity may be estimated by modeling a hydrodynamic evolution of the invaded zone (a) a step-wise radial profile of horizontal resistivity in the invaded zone as an initial estimate of horizontal resistivity in the invaded zone; (b) an estimated shallow resistivity at a borehole wall; and (c) an estimated horizontal conductance of the formation at an outer boundary of the borehole wall estimated from multi-component induction logging information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Marina N. Nikitenko, Leonty Tabarovsky
  • Patent number: 10495775
    Abstract: A method for correcting geomagnetic reference field includes measuring Earth magnetic field elements at least one known geodetic position. Earth magnetic field elements are measured at a position proximate the location. A disturbance function is determined from the Earth magnetic field measurements made at the at least one known geodetic position. A magnetic disturbance field measurement transfer function is estimated between the at the at least one known geodetic and proximate positions to estimate a disturbance function at the proximate position. The estimated magnetic disturbance function is used to correct geomagnetic reference field or measurements made at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, MAGNETIC VARIATION SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Maus, Benny Poedjono
  • Patent number: 10467253
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, for each of a plurality of channels at a well site, converting channel data from a source data format to a common data format in real-time as the channel data is generated. The common data format includes a plurality of elements organized into a plurality of sets. Each element includes a minimum collection of fields. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of channels, storing the converted channel data in a data store as part of the at least one element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Petrolink International Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Abraham, Mark Patrick Farnan