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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2013
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ferhat Turker Celepcikay, Houston, TX (US);

Luis Emilio San Martin, Houston, TX (US);

Burkay Donderici, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/40 (2006.01); G01V 11/00 (2006.01); G01V 3/38 (2006.01); G01V 3/28 (2006.01); E21B 47/10 (2012.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); G01V 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 11/002 (2013.01); E21B 47/10 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); G01V 3/28 (2013.01); G01V 3/38 (2013.01); G01V 9/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to obtain a dip angle in a formation; to generate a model, using a model generation algorithm, of the formation using the dip angle; to generate a dip correction based on the model using at least two dip correction methods, at least one of which is affected more by the presence of an invasion in the formation than the other of the at least two dip correction methods; to determine existence of a fluid invasion of the formation based on comparison of results of the at least two dip correction methods; and to correct a log of parameters associated with the formation based on the existence of the fluid invasion. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.


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