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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1981
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1980
Robert P Murphy, Bixby, OK (US);
Frank O Jones, Jr, Tulsa, OK (US);
Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a method of determining oil saturation in an underground rock formation penetrated by a wellbore by use of a log-inject-log technique. In such techniques, thermal neutron decay time logs are taken with the formation in the native state and then again after fresh water has been injected into the formation. These logs determine water saturations which are used to determine oil saturation. The method of this invention is directed to a method to prepare an aqueous salt solution so that clay and shale impairment of the formation is prevented but such that the thermal neutron capture cross section of the injected fresh water is not significantly different from that of the fresh water typically used.