E21B 47/0224
Using seismic or acoustic means
Official title: using seismic or acoustic means
E21B47/0224 (Using seismic or acoustic means) appears on 133 US grants and 135 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E21B- Granted patents
- 133
- Published applications
- 135
- Assignees
- 61
- Inventors
- 364
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026 | 4 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Fusion of wellbore surveys and ranging measurements18 Aug 2026US 12,709,976 B1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Method for predicting a reservoir's structure, petrophysical properties, and associated uncertainty in front of a drill bit16 Jun 2026US 12,655,749 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Apparatus and methods for determining information from a well21 Apr 2026US 12,607,112 B2Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc.
- Smart data acquisition for gyrocompass applications20 Jan 2026US 12,529,303 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Pre-loaded bearings for sensor shell18 Nov 2025US 12,473,821 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Milling assembly for drilling a multilateral wellbore10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266176 A1Halliburton Energy Services.Inc.
- Method for predicting a reservoir's structure, petrophysical properties, and associated uncertainty in front of a drill bit10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266177 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Method For Predicting A Reservoir's Structure, Petrophysical Properties, And Associated Uncertainty In Front Of A Drill Bit11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160159 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Smart data acquisition for gyrocompass applications27 Feb 2025US 2025/0067166 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- High-resolution reflection imaging with large-scale reservoir and structure determination using full-waveform sonic data12 Dec 2024US 2024/0411043 A1Hornby Geophysical Services, LLC
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- In situ thermal processing of a hydrocarbon containing formation using a natural distributed combustor233US 7,114,566 B2Shell Oil Company · 2006
- Producing hydrocarbons and non-hydrocarbon containing materials when treating a hydrocarbon containing formation229US 7,100,994 B2Shell Oil Company · 2006
- In situ recovery from a hydrocarbon containing formation using conductor-in-conduit heat sources with an electrically conductive material in the overburden224US 7,165,615 B2Shell Oil Company · 2007