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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Satyan Gopal Bhongale, Cypress, TX (US);

Michel Joseph Leblanc, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 7/04 (2006.01); G01V 7/02 (2006.01); E21B 47/10 (2012.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 7/04 (2013.01); E21B 47/10 (2013.01); E21B 49/008 (2013.01); G01V 7/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Gravity surveys of subterranean formations may be based on the simultaneous measurement of gravity and its derivatives to produce a higher resolution formation map or wellbore log. For example, a method of performing a gravity survey may include positioning a matter wave interferometer relative to a subterranean formation; producing at least one cloud of atoms in the matter wave interferometer; producing a superposition of atoms in two different, spatially separated superimposed clouds from each of the at least one cloud of atoms; propagating the two different, spatially separated superimposed clouds along the matter wave interferometer as they with a gravitational field of the subterranean formation; combining the two different, spatially separated superimposed clouds with a Raman laser beam; measuring an interference produced by producing and combining the two different, spatially separated superimposed clouds; and calculating gravity for the gravitational field of the subterranean formation based on the interference.


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