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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:
Jul. 23, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Srinivasan Jagannathan, Houston, TX (US);

Yinghui Lu, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Rebecca Jachmann, Spring, TX (US);

Nam Nguyen, Singapore, SG;

Yi Yang Ang, Singapore, SG;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/28 (2006.01); G01V 1/30 (2006.01); G01V 1/42 (2006.01); G01V 1/50 (2006.01); E21B 47/10 (2012.01); E21B 47/14 (2006.01); G01V 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/282 (2013.01); E21B 47/101 (2013.01); E21B 47/14 (2013.01); G01V 1/288 (2013.01); G01V 1/308 (2013.01); G01V 1/40 (2013.01); G01V 1/42 (2013.01); G01V 1/50 (2013.01); G01V 2200/16 (2013.01); G01V 2210/123 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1234 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1299 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1429 (2013.01); G01V 2210/55 (2013.01); G01V 2210/614 (2013.01); G01V 2210/644 (2013.01); G01V 2210/673 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method including selecting a forward model based on a modeled well structure and including a single modeled acoustic source located in a modeled wellbore and a plurality of modeled acoustic sensors located in a modeled source area, simulating an acoustic signal generated by the single modeled acoustic source and received by each modeled acoustic sensor, calculating phases of the simulated acoustic signals received at each modeled acoustic sensor, obtaining with a principle of reciprocity a plurality of modeled acoustic sources in the modeled source area and a single modeled acoustic sensor in the modeled wellbore, calculating phase delays of the simulated acoustic signals between each modeled acoustic source and the single modeled acoustic sensor, detecting acoustic signals generated by a flow of fluid using acoustic sensors in a wellbore, and processing the acoustic signals using the phase delays to generate a flow likelihood map.


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