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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2004
Applicants:
William Madigan, Houston, TX (US);
Richard Pemper, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Pingjun Guo, Pearland, TX (US);
Inventors:
William Madigan, Houston, TX (US);
Richard Pemper, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Pingjun Guo, Pearland, TX (US);
Assignee:
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Elemental analysis of an earth formation is obtained using measurements from a gamma ray logging tool. From the elemental analysis, an estimate of the mineralogy of the formation is made treating the problem as one of Linear Programming (maximizing an objective function subject to equality and/or inequality constraints).