Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wellbore detector with azimuthal and spectral energy resolution
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Application No.: US16102221Application Date: 2018-08-13
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Publication No.: US10732317B2Publication Date: 2020-08-04
- Inventor: Ansas Matthias Kasten , Adrian Ivan , William Robert Ross
- Applicant: GE Energy Oilfield Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US LA Broussard
- Assignee: GE Energy Oilfield Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: GE Energy Oilfield Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US LA Broussard
- Agency: Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Main IPC: G01V5/10
- IPC: G01V5/10 ; E21B47/08 ; E21B47/10 ; E21B47/12 ; G06F17/15 ; E21B47/16 ; G01V1/44 ; G01V3/30 ; G01V5/14 ; G01V8/16 ; G01V11/00

Abstract:
A wellbore inspection device includes a radiation generation source operable to emit neutrons, and a radiation detector fixed relative to the radiation generation source and operable to detect backscattered neutron radiation from a surrounding environment. The radiation detector includes a plurality of individually addressable detector elements arranged in one or more concentric rings. Respective amounts of backscattered neutron radiation detected by the individually addressable detector elements within a ring is indicative of the azimuthal direction of the detected backscattered neutron radiation, and the respective amount of backscattered neutron radiation detected by the individually addressable detector elements of two or more concentric rings is indicative of an energy level of the backscattered neutron radiation. The inspection device determines whether a potential anomaly is present in or around the wellbore, based at least in part on the respective amounts of backscattered radiation detected by the individually addressable detector elements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190049619A1 WELLBORE DETECTOR WITH AZIMUTHAL AND SPECTRAL ENERGY RESOLUTION Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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