- Patent Title: Microanalysis of fine grained rock for reservoir quality analysis
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Application No.: US16552201Application Date: 2019-08-27
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Publication No.: US11460462B2Publication Date: 2022-10-04
- Inventor: Hubert E. King, Jr. , Michael G. Myers , William A. Lamberti , Antonio S. Buono , James H. Macquaker
- Applicant: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring
- Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
- Current Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring
- Agency: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company—Law Department
- Main IPC: G01N33/24
- IPC: G01N33/24 ; G01N15/08 ; G01N23/203 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
A method of analyzing a rock sample includes analyzing one or more large-area, low-resolution micrographs to identify areas requiring higher-resolution imaging, and selecting one or more analysis regions from the areas requiring higher-resolution imaging. Multi-spectral imaging is used on the one or more analysis regions to obtain one or more high-resolution, multi-spectral images, and one or more features of the rock sample are identified from the corresponding one or more high-resolution, multi-spectral images. The method further includes upscaling the one or more high-resolution, multi-spectral images and thereby geo-locating the features of the rock sample to key regions of the rock sample.
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