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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
William L Medlin, Dallas, TX (US);
Gary L Zumwalt, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 31 ;
Abstract
A borehole logging tool employs an acoustic transmitter and at least one spaced-apart receiver. The transmitter is excited with a tone burst to cause the transmitter to resonate and generate acoustic tube waves. The rate of decay of the amplitudes of the tube waves recorded at the receiver following termination of the excitation of the transmitter is used to determine the amount of damping of the tube waves in the subsurface formation along the borehole wall.