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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:
Dec. 03, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2012
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

James E. Galford, Missouri City, TX (US);

John Andrew Quirein, Georgetown, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/00 (2009.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/48 (2006.01); G01V 3/38 (2006.01); G01V 11/00 (2006.01); G01V 3/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); G01V 1/48 (2013.01); G01V 3/38 (2013.01); G01V 11/00 (2013.01); G01V 3/175 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for determining kerogen porosity of a formation for downhole operations is described herein. The method includes calculating a first formation characteristic and a second formation characteristic at a processor of an information handling system. The method further includes determining a kerogen porosity of the formation based, at least in part, on the first formation characteristic and the second formation characteristic. And the method also includes performing a downhole operation based, at least in part, on the determined kerogen porosity.


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