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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:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Johan Cornelis Hornman, Rijswijk, NL;

Peter Berkeley Wills, Houston, TX (US);

Jorge Luis Lopez, Bellaire, TX (US);

Albena Alexandrova Mateeva, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/42 (2006.01); G01V 1/36 (2006.01); G01H 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/42 (2013.01); G01H 9/004 (2013.01); G01V 1/36 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1429 (2013.01); G01V 2210/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method may include providing a sensor in a first wellbore segment, providing a sensor in a second wellbore segment, observing upgoing acoustic waves or downgoing acoustic waves with the sensors, and separating the upgoing acoustic waves and/or the downgoing acoustic waves from a total wavefield. The first wellbore segment and the second wellbore segment may be separated by a distance. At least one of the wellbore segments may be non-vertical and/or the first wellbore segment may not be parallel to the second wellbore segment. The first wellbore segment may be part of a first set of wellbores and the second wellbore segment may be part of a second set of wellbores. The separated upgoing and downgoing acoustic waves may be used to generate deghosted data.


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