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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21B / ; G01V / ; G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7315202 ; 7315218 ; 7315232 ; 7315224 ; 73 38 ; 324338 ; 324353 ; 324351 ;
Abstract
The porosity and permeability of a geological formation (2) are determined on the basis of an electrofiltering phenomenon by exploiting the existence of non-linear electrofiltering phenomena. One or two pressure generators (11 ) are used to propagate a pressure wave in the formation. Electrodes (14, 15) applied against the wall of the formation pick up the electric response of the formation. The detection of a resonance frequency or a phase shift corresponding to an extremum of the electric response of the formation makes it possible to calculate the porosity or permeability of the formation or find their values from charts.