Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Machines, systems, and methods for super-virtual borehole sonic interferometry
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Application No.: US13852344Application Date: 2013-03-28
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Publication No.: US09612352B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Abdulrahman Alshuhail , Ali Abdulhameed Aldawood , Abdullatif Al-Shuhail
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company , King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company,King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company,King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran SA Dhahran
- Agency: Bracewell LLP
- Agent Constance G. Rhebergen; Christopher L. Drymalla
- Main IPC: G01V1/48
- IPC: G01V1/48

Abstract:
Embodiments of super-virtual borehole sonic interferometry include machines, systems, and methods that can increase the signal-to-noise ratio of sonic log waveforms. Embodiments include performing a common shot gather and recording traces with a sonic tool, repositioning the tool and performing another common-shot gather; cross-correlating each trace with neighboring corresponding traces for each common shot gather, which leads to creating the virtual trace response due to a redatumed virtual source; stacking the common virtual traces with common ray paths for different common shot gathers; convolving the virtual traces with an actual trace that travels from the source through the virtual source to a receiver on the tool; and stacking the traces having common ray paths. The resulting waveforms can have a signal-to-noise ratio significantly greater than the signal-to-noise ratio of the original waveforms, due to the two stacking operations following each redatuming step.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130261976A1 MACHINES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SUPER-VIRTUAL BOREHOLE SONIC INTERFEROMETRY Public/Granted day:2013-10-03
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