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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2021
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Jose Oliverio Alvarez, Houston, TX (US);
SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A system for looking ahead of a drill bit includes a plane wave generator (PWG) tool deployed downhole inside a wellbore for formation evaluation and generation of reflection data, a power source providing electric power to the PWG tool for the formation evaluation and the generation of the reflection data, a surface control system receiving the reflection data from the PWG tool and generating image data of a subsurface rock formation based on the received reflection data, and a wireline that electrically couples the PWG tool to the power source and communicatively couples the PWG tool to the surface control system. The PWG tool includes a beam forming network (BFN) architecture and a plurality of antenna elements mounted to a base of the PWG tool to transmit and receive electromagnetic signals.