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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1988
Chandra S Rai, Tulsa, OK (US);
Carl H Sondergeld, Tulsa, OK (US);
Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method of geophysical exploration is described whereby composition logs of the minerals comprising the formations surrounding a wellbore can be obtained. Samples of the formations surrounding a wellbore are obtained at selected intervals along the length of the wellbore. Each of the core samples is irradiated with electromagnetic radiation and a spectral response signal, representative of the electromagnetic response of each sample to the electromagnetic radiation is recorded. Peaks in the spectral response signals are located and correlated with minerals exhibiting similar electromagnetic characteristic response peaks. Since the samples were obtained from known depths within the wellbore, a composition log of the minerals comprising the formations surrounding the wellbore can be prepared displaying the minerals identified as a function of depth in the wellbore.