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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2014
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Philip D. Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
Nicholas H. Gardiner, Katy, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods including providing an actual formation core sample; determining an internal anatomy of at least a portion of the actual formation core sample; determining a virtual 3D model of the external anatomy of the actual formation core sample in a computer readable format, wherein the virtual 3D model of the external anatomy of the actual formation core sample is represented by successive 2D cross-sectional layers; providing a 3D printer; transmitting the virtual 3D model of the external anatomy of the actual formation core sample to the 3D printer; and printing a facsimile core sample using the 3D printer, thereby replicating at least a portion of the external anatomy of the actual formation core sample.