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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yike Hu, Houston, TX (US);

Weijun Guo, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/38 (2006.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 47/005 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/005 (2020.05); G01N 33/383 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for evaluating integrity of cement in a wellbore with multiple casing strings. The system and method may include at least one source that can emit a field of photons, and at least one photon detector spaced away from the source by a first distance that configures the tool to measure cement integrity in a first annulus, by a portion of the source photons being scattered back to the first detector which can produce photon count rates based on energy levels of received photons. Integrity of cement in the first annulus can be determined by the photon count rates. A second detector spaced a second distance from the source can be included and can measure cement integrity in a second annulus that is radially outside the first annulus by producing photon count rates for photons received from the second annulus.


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