Patent ID: 11927711
Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  E | IPC E  G

Claim 9:
10. A method of determining body wave slowness values for a target formation zone, the method comprising:
selecting a target axial resolution based on the size of the receiver array;
obtaining, by an acoustic logging tool having a receiver array, a plurality of waveform data sets corresponding to a target formation zone, wherein each waveform data set is acquired at a different shot position of a plurality of shot positions and each waveform data set comprises lower monopole (LMP), far monopole (FMP), and ultrafar monopole (UFMP) data gathered at each shot position of the plurality of shot positions;
determining reconstructed sets of waveform data for the target formation zone, wherein each reconstructed set of waveform data corresponds to a particular shot position;
determining a semblance map, a variable density log (VDL), and a slowness value for each reconstructed set of waveform data;
stacking the VDLs; and
extracting body wave slowness values from the stacked VDLs.