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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2014
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technolgoy Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Andrea Valori, Dammam, SA;

Mohammed Badri, Al-Khobar, SA;

Reza Taherian, Missouri City, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/32 (2006.01); G01R 33/50 (2006.01); E21B 47/09 (2012.01); G01V 3/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/32 (2013.01); E21B 47/0905 (2013.01); G01R 33/50 (2013.01); G01V 3/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A permanent monitoring tool is provided and disposed in a wellbore. Measurements are made at different times using the permanent monitoring tool on a region of a formation penetrated by the wellbore. One or more properties of the formation are inferred at one or more depths of investigation within the region using the measurements. Any changes in the one or more inferred formation properties are determined and one or more reservoir management decisions are made based on the determined changes. The well may be an observation well, an injector well, or a production well. The permanent monitoring tool may be a magnetic resonance tool or an electromagnetic tool. The measurements may be stacked to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal. Different depths of investigation may be selected using antenna arrays of different lengths. The inferred properties may be saturation or resistivity. Conductive or non-conductive casing may be used.


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