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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2010
Fernando Garcia-osuna, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Pierre Campanac, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Fernando Garcia-Osuna, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Pierre Campanac, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
One or more embodiments and methods of analyzing a formation sample with in a coring tool are disclosed herein. The methods and embodiments may include extracting a first core from a sidewall of a wellbore with a coring tool at a first depth, ultrasonically measuring a sound speed of the first core, transmitting the ultrasonically measured sound speed of the first core to a surface display unit, analyzing the ultrasonically measured sound speed in real time, determining the quality of the first core, extracting a second core at the first depth if the first core is determined to be low quality, and extracting the second core at a second depth if the core first is determined to be high quality.