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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:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2014
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventor:

Mark V. Collins, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2006.01); G01V 1/40 (2006.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); E21B 47/10 (2012.01); G01V 1/36 (2006.01); E21B 47/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2013.01); E21B 47/101 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); G01V 1/36 (2013.01); G01V 1/40 (2013.01); E21B 47/14 (2013.01); G01V 2210/54 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to extract reflections from acoustic array data collected from a receiver array. A beam-former can be generated to detect a reflection wave in the presence of a direct wave identified from collected waveforms, where the beam-former can be correlated to receiver and depth for the array. The direct wave and the reflection wave can be separated to extract the reflection wave, where the separation is correlated to receiver and depth for the array. The extracted reflected wave can be used to image and/or analyze entities associated with the borehole. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.


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