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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Min Lou, Houston, TX (US);
Min Lou, Houston, TX (US);
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A technique for calculating traveltime of a seismic wave in three dimensional tilted transversely isotropic (3D TI) media includes determining a wave vector, defining a unit vector, calculating an angle of the wave vector from an axis and performing a slowness determination, wherein a unit vector for a symmetry axis is defined as: (cos φ sin θ, sin φ sin θ, cos θ); where φ represents the azimuth of the symmetry axis measured from the x direction; and, θ represents the dip angle of the symmetry axis measured from the z direction. The technique may be practiced as a computer implemented set of instructions, and may be incorporated into measurement equipment.