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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
M-i L.l.c., Houston, TX (US);
Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher, Houston, TX (US);
Cara Bovet, Houston, TX (US);
Albert Okhrimenko, Houston, TX (US);
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of electrically logging a section of a wellbore includes circulating an oil-based wellbore fluid within the wellbore and allowing filtration of the oil-based wellbore fluid to form a conductive filtercake on a wall of the wellbore; placing within the wellbore a wellbore logging tool with at least one pad capable of applying a current to a portion of the conductive filtercake and wellbore wall; applying electrical current from the at least one pad; and collecting an electrical log of the portion of the wellbore that has had electrical current applied thereto.