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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:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Baker Hughes, a GE Company, Llc, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Anna Przebindowska, Celle, DE;

Theodorus Geerits, Nienhagen, DE;

Assignee:

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2006.01); G01V 1/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2013.01); G01V 1/46 (2013.01); G01V 2210/127 (2013.01); G01V 2210/6161 (2013.01); G01V 2210/6169 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, devices, and products for formation evaluation. Methods include automatically characterizing an acoustic reflective boundary in the earth formation by: generating a plurality of multipole acoustic signals within the borehole; generating acoustic wave data at at least one acoustic receiver on the logging tool in response to a plurality of acoustic reflections of acoustic waves from a corresponding plurality of reflection points along the boundary responsive to the multipole acoustic signals; estimating from the acoustic wave data a location in the formation for each reflection point of the plurality of reflection points, which may include performing coherence processing on at least a portion of the acoustic wave data to generate a coherence map; and identifying acoustic reflections from the coherence map; and using the location in the formation for each reflection point to estimate at least one property of the acoustic reflective boundary.


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