Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Wisam Al Kawai

Abrar Alabbad

Yunlai Yang

Maher I Almarhoon

Systems and methods for evaluating hydrocarbon properties. At least one of the systems includes: a drilling machine configured to drill a borehole; a plurality of infrared cameras configured to capture infrared image data representing a plurality of infrared images of at least one core sample extracted from the borehole; a computer-readable memory comprising computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions, in which when the at least one processor is executing the computer-executable instructions, the at least one processor is configured to carry out operations including: receiving the infrared image data captured by the plurality of infrared cameras; determining, based on the infrared image data, at least one hydrocarbon weight value of the at least one core sample.

Hydrocarbon evaluation systems

Some systems and methods for determining depths of subterranean formation layer tops while drilling through the subterranean formation include a drill bit, a drill rig, a microphone, a depth sensor, and a processor. While drilling the through the subterranean formation, the processor receives a measured sound from the microphone and a measured drill bit depth from the depth sensor, normalizes the measured sound across all measured drill bit depths, determines frequency information of the normalized sound for each depth of the plurality of depths, determines frequency spectrums of the normalized sound for one or more depths of the plurality of depths, transforms the frequency spectrums into a depth spectrum, and determines the depths of subterranean formation layer tops based on the depth spectrum.

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Qatif, Saudi Arabia

Wisam Al Kawai