Patent ID: 11965418
Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC E  G | IPC E  G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a discharge tool positioned within a wellbore and configured to generate an electrical discharge that interacts with a rock formation proximate to the discharge tool, wherein the interaction of the electrical discharge with the rock formation vaporizes a portion of the rock formation to generate a discharge plasma, and wherein the discharge tool comprises an optically transparent window positioned in view of the discharge plasma, wherein at least a portion of optical emission generated by the discharge plasma passes through the optically transparent window; and
an optical emission spectroscopy (OES) sub-system configured to determine an elemental composition of the portion of the rock formation based on the optical emission generated by the discharge plasma, wherein at least a portion of the OES sub-system is positioned within the wellbore.