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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2008
Applicant:
Jinsong Zhao, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Jinsong Zhao, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/40 (2006.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/0005 (2013.01);
Abstract
Signals from an acoustic transducer used in a borehole include overlapping, ringing reflections from the casing walls, voids in the cement and the formation. By using the Hilbert transform, an envelope of the signals is determined and individual echoes are detected by using a Gauss-Laplace operator.