Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging using directional resistivity measurements
- Patent Title (中): 使用方向电阻率测量成像
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Application No.: US12563569Application Date: 2009-09-21
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Publication No.: US08294467B2Publication Date: 2012-10-23
- Inventor: Gerald Minerbo , Sofia Davydycheva , Jian Yang
- Applicant: Gerald Minerbo , Sofia Davydycheva , Jian Yang
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Agent Darla P. Fonseca
- Main IPC: G01V3/10
- IPC: G01V3/10 ; G01V3/18

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method to produce an image of a subsurface formation using directional measurements. A downhole logging tool having one or more transmitters and one or more receivers, and being capable of making directional measurements, is used to measure the voltage in a particular receiver due to a particular transmitter for one or more transmitter/receiver pairs, at least one of those voltage measurements being a directional measurement. The complex (phasor) voltage recorded on a receiver coil is divided by the complex voltage recorded at another reference receiver coil. Alternatively, we can use the ratio of a receiver voltage at a particular rotation angle of the tool divided by the voltage on the same receiver when the tool has rotated by an angle of 180 degrees. The information in those ratios is combined to produce images of the resistivity of the subsurface formation surrounding the tool.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110068798A1 IMAGING USING DIRECTIONAL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS Public/Granted day:2011-03-24
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