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Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2011
Applicants:

Peter T. Wu, Missouri City, TX (US);

Thomas D. Barber, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Peter T. Wu, Missouri City, TX (US);

Thomas D. Barber, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/12 (2006.01); G01V 1/42 (2006.01); G01V 3/30 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/12 (2013.01); G01V 1/42 (2013.01); G01V 3/30 (2013.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method to determine a formation property of a subsurface formation. A downhole logging tool having two or more tri-axial antennas is provided and used to obtain azimuthally sensitive data. Borehole correction is performed on the obtained data and a ZD-inversion is performed on the borehole corrected data for all antenna spacing groups. A formation indicator flag is determined and, depending on the determined formation indicator flag, a 1D-axial inversion and/or a 1D-radial inversion is performed over selected zones, or neither is performed. The best ZD-inversion results are selected and the 1D-axial inversion results and/or the 1D-radial inversion results, if any, are combined with the selected best ZD-inversion results to form a composite inversion result. The formation property of the subsurface formation is determined using the composite inversion result.


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