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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2007
William Stephen Kowalik, San Ramon, CA (US);
William Charles Corea, San Ramon, CA (US);
William Harrison Crane, Houston, TX (US);
William John Schweller, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
William Stephen Kowalik, San Ramon, CA (US);
William Charles Corea, San Ramon, CA (US);
William Harrison Crane, Houston, TX (US);
William John Schweller, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of analyzing characteristics of a subterranean formation includes transmitting a signal at least partially into a material of the subterranean formation such that the signal is transformed in a manner indicative of a characteristic of the material, receiving the transformed signal from the material, converting the transformed signal into image data indicative of the characteristic of the material, applying a first set of machine executable rules to the image data to produce segmented image data, wherein portions of the image that are sufficiently related according to the applied rules are grouped into segments, and analyzing, according to a second set of machine executable rules, the segmented image data to produce a geological profile of the subterranean formation.