Wells – Processes – Vibrating the earth or material in or being placed in the...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-15
2005-03-15
Walker, Zakiya (Department: 3672)
Wells
Processes
Vibrating the earth or material in or being placed in the...
C166S250030, C166S250150
Reexamination Certificate
active
06866098
ABSTRACT:
System and methods for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic pulses through a geological formation. A preferably programmable transmitter having an all-digital portion in a preferred embodiment may be operated at frequencies below 1 MHz without loss of target resolution by transmitting and over sampling received long PN codes. A gated and stored portion of the received signal may be correlated with the PN code to determine distances of interfaces within the geological formation, such as the distance of a water interfaces from a wellbore. The received signal is oversampled preferably at rates such as five to fifty times as high as a carrier frequency. In one method of the invention, an oil well with multiple production zones may be kept in production by detecting an approaching water front in one of the production zones and shutting down that particular production zone thereby permitting the remaining production zones to continue operating.
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Amini B. Jon
Arndt G. Dickey
Byerly Kent A.
Carl James R.
Ro Theodore U.
The United States of America as represented by the National Aero
Walker Zakiya
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