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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:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Yumei Tang, Katy, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/40 (2006.01); G01V 3/18 (2006.01); G01V 5/04 (2006.01); G01V 3/20 (2006.01); G01V 3/38 (2006.01); G01V 3/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/20 (2013.01); G01V 3/18 (2013.01); G01V 3/30 (2013.01); G01V 3/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for minimizing the standoff effect on an imaging tool in a borehole are provided. The imaging tool may include a sensor assembly for transmitting current in the direction of the formation to obtain complex measurements having a real part and an imaginary part. The real-part measurement may be sensitive to, or affected by, the resistivity of the formation and the standoff of the imaging tool. The imaginary-part measurement may be affected by only to standoff. A computing device may determine a ratio using the imaginary-part measurement and corresponding to change in standoff at various imaging tool azimuths. The ratio may be applied to the real-part measurement to enhance the resolution of image data corresponding to formations adjacent to the wellbore.


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