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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:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 14, 2019
Applicant:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Inventors:

Ferhan Y. Ahmed, Dhahran, SA;

Mohammed S. Mubarak, Dhahran, SA;

Constantinos Tsingas, Dhahran, SA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 44/00 (2006.01); E21B 7/06 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01); E21B 47/0224 (2012.01); G01V 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 44/00 (2013.01); E21B 7/06 (2013.01); E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 47/0224 (2020.05); G01V 1/288 (2013.01); G01V 1/364 (2013.01); G01V 2200/16 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1295 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1425 (2013.01); G01V 2210/3246 (2013.01); G01V 2210/56 (2013.01); G01V 2210/72 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for determining a wellbore drilling path includes identifying input seismic data associated with a subterranean zone that includes a wellbore drilling target. The input seismic data includes primary seismic events and multiple seismic events. The input seismic data is processed to remove the multiple seismic events and at least one of the primary seismic events from the input seismic data. An orthogonalization of the processed input seismic data is performed to recover the at least one primary seismic event into a seismic image of the subterranean zone that excludes at least a portion of the multiple seismic events. A wellbore path is determined from a terranean surface toward the wellbore drilling target for a drilling geo-steering system based on the seismic image of the subterranean zone.


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