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Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gong Li Wang, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Koji Ito, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Xiao Bo Hong, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/38 (2006.01); G01V 3/30 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/38 (2013.01); G01V 3/30 (2013.01); G01V 99/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Properties of a geological formation, such as vertical resistivity values, horizontal resistivity values, dip, and azimuth may be determined by inverting electromagnetic (EM) well log data based at least in part on an anisotropic formation model and a cost function. The cost function may include a data misfit term, a smoothness term, and an entropy term. In some embodiments, one or more of the data misfit term, the smoothness term, and the entropy term may be represented as functions of vertical conductivity and horizontal conductivity. The cost function may include one or more regularization parameters that are based at least in part on the data misfit term. Further, the cost function may include one or more relaxation factors that are based at least in part on a ratio of the Hessians of the smoothness term and the data misfit term.


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