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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2012
Steve Allan Horne, Perth, AU;
John Walsh, Houston, TX (US);
Steve Allan Horne, Perth, AU;
John Walsh, Houston, TX (US);
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method can include providing compressional and shear-wave slowness data for a homogeneous, anisotropic formation at deviated borehole angles greater than 40 degrees and less than 90 degrees as defined by a vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) symmetry axis; providing a relationship for normal and tangential compliances (e.g., Band B); and, based on the data and the relationship, outputting a model for calculating anisotropy parameter values (e.g., α, ε, .δ) that characterize the homogeneous, anisotropic formation (e.g., along a borehole angle of 90 degrees). Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.