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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Halliburton Geophysical Services, Inc., Duncan, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 13 ; 367 25 ; 367911 ; 181104 ; 33309 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting the orientation of downhole geophones are provided. A gamma ray source is secured to a casing enclosing a geophone such that the location of the gamma ray source with respect to the orientation of a geophone is known. The geophone is secured to tubing such that the orientation of the geophone with respect to the tubing is known. The tubing, with attached geophone, is secured downhole. A gamma ray logging tool is run the length of the tubing. The orientation of the downhole geophone is determined from the gamma ray log.