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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Lubomyr Taras Bryndzia, Houston, TX (US);
Saad Jamil Saleh, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Calum Ian Macaulay, Houston, TX (US);
Neil Robert Braunsdorf, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Theodericus Johannes Henricus Smit, Rijswijk, NL;
Ronny Hofmann, Houston, TX (US);
Brian Harvey Hoffe, Calgary, CA;
Ezequiel Francisco Gonzalez San Miguel, Katy, TX (US);
Assignee:
SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/44 (2006.01); G01V 3/30 (2006.01); G01V 8/02 (2006.01); G01V 11/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/65 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01); G01V 3/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/30 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01); G01N 21/65 (2013.01); G01V 3/38 (2013.01); G01V 8/02 (2013.01); G01V 11/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of evaluating a shale source rock formation comprising: determining in situ partial pressures of a light hydrocarbon utilizing a downhole Raman tool and producing a map of spatial and vertical variations of the in situ partial pressures of the light hydrocarbon in the shale source rock formation.