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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Apache Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Cameron A Snow, Houston, TX (US);
James A Ruiz, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
APACHE CORPORATION, Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for characterizing subsurface formations penetrated by a wellbore includes accepting as input to a computer measurements of a physical parameter of the formations made over a selected axial interval of the wellbore. At least one attribute of the measurements is determined from a change in the measurements over the selected axial interval. At least one characteristic of the formations in the selected axial interval using the at least one attribute.