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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:
Jan. 09, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2017
Applicants:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Weatherford International, Llc, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Shouxiang Mark Ma, Dhahran, SA;

Darryl Trcka, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Robert Wilson, Mancos, CO (US);

Assignees:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/02 (2006.01); G01V 5/10 (2006.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/025 (2013.01); E21B 47/00 (2013.01); G01V 5/108 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided in some embodiments are systems and methods for monitoring cement quality of a cased well. Embodiments include conducting a cement-bond logging and a first pulsed neutron (PN) logging to generate a cement-bond log (CBL) and first pulsed neutron log (PNL) for the well, determining a first cement quality index (CQI) for the well based on the CBL and the first PNL, in response to determining that mud effects for the well have dissipated, conducting a second PN logging to generate a second PNL for the well, determining a second CQI for the well based on the CBL and the second PNL, determining a tuned CQI for the well based on the first CQI and the second CQI, conducting a follow-up PN logging to generate a follow-up PNL for the well, and determining a cement quality log for the well based on the tuned CQI and the follow-up PNL.


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