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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Kennedy J. Kirkhope, Leduc, CA;
Alben D'Silva, Edmonton, CA;
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a rotary steerable tool and a gamma sensor assembly are provided. These systems may include scintillation detection sensors mounted in a pressure sleeve assembly coupled to a rotating drive shaft and/or an electronics insert of the rotary steerable tool. The sensors may each be mounted in an atmospheric pressure environment within a respective pressure sleeve. The pressure sleeves may each rotate with the drive shaft and the electronics insert. The sonde-based arrangement of the systems may facilitate relatively high sensitivity measurements taken at a rotating portion of the rotary steerable tool. This may allow directional gamma measurements and bulk gamma measurements to be determined at the rotating section of rotary steerable tool.