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- Patent Title: Automatic method for three-dimensional structural interpretation of borehole images acquired in high-angle and horizontal wells
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Application No.: US15122376Application Date: 2015-02-27
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Publication No.: US10466375B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Sushil Shetty , John Rasmus , Christopher Edward Morriss , Koji Ito , Shahzad Asif , Vittorio Picco
- Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- International Application: PCT/US2015/017930 WO 20150227
- International Announcement: WO2015/131016 WO 20150903
- Main IPC: G01V1/30
- IPC: G01V1/30 ; G01V1/50 ; G01V1/34 ; G01V3/18 ; G01V5/04

Abstract:
A method for automatic interpretation of bulls-eye and sinusoidal features observed in LWD images is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes an automatic workflow for extracting smooth contours from images that demarcate boundaries of structural features, followed by projection of the contours to three-dimensional (3D) point clouds in the well coordinate system for structural interpretation. The method may characterize both sinusoidal features and bulls-eye features, taking into account variations of formation dip/azimuth, or well inclination/azimuth, on the topology of a structural feature. The disclosed method may be sufficiently fast for use in real-time analysis and interpretation, or to provide constraints for physics-based data inversion processing.
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