US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Nov. 4 for "System and method for seismic imaging around wellbores" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,266, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"System and method for seismic imaging around wellbores" was invented by Alexei Olegovich Bolshakov (Pearland, Texas) and Kristoffer Thomas Walker (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for method of processing seismic data including obtaining seismic data, wherein the seismic data was acquired with a plurality of azimuthal receiver elements of a logging-while-drilling tool while a drill bit is drilling a wellbore; decomposing the seismic data into monopole and dipole modes; cross-correlating each receiver pair of the monopol...