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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:
Apr. 30, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeremy James Combs, Spring, TX (US);

William David Bethancourt, Houston, TX (US);

Renata Da Gama Saintive, Houston, TX (US);

Clinton Keith Bates, Kingwood, TX (US);

Robert Grant Gillson, III, Fort Smith, AR (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 3/14 (2024.01); E21B 7/04 (2006.01); E21B 44/00 (2006.01); E21B 47/09 (2012.01); G06T 3/067 (2024.01); G06T 7/30 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/30 (2017.01); E21B 44/00 (2013.01); G06T 3/067 (2024.01); G06T 2207/30181 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.


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