G01V 2210/161
Vertical seismic profiling [vsp]
Official title: Vertical seismic profiling [VSP]
G01V2210/161 (Vertical seismic profiling [vsp]) appears on 139 US grants and 106 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01V- Granted patents
- 139
- Published applications
- 106
- Assignees
- 56
- Inventors
- 300
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 3 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for inverting formation wave impedance using DAS borehole seismic data1 Sep 2026US 12,724,163 B2BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
- DAS depth calibration with multi-gauge length interrogation5 May 2026US 12,618,992 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Method to correct VSP data28 Oct 2025US 12,455,392 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- System and method for forming a seismic velocity model and imaging a subterranean region23 Sep 2025US 12,422,579 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Intelligent geophysical data acquisition system and acquisition method for shale oil and gas optical fiber15 Jul 2025US 12,360,267 B2BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
- Look-ahead vsp elastic waveform inversion3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259343 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Method and apparatus for seismic imaging with vsp while-drilling and well-driven16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104523 A1PetroChina Company Limited
- Integrated modeling for seismic survey acquisition parameterization2 Oct 2025US 2025/0306226 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Bayesian systems for seismic fault detection10 Jul 2025US 2025/0224530 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Method and apparatus for improving das signal-to-noise ratio by means of local fk transform24 Apr 2025US 2025/0130341 A1BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Reference signal encoding for seismic while drilling measurement172US 6,078,868 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 2000
- Method for seismic monitoring of an underground zone under development allowing better identification of significant events162US 6,049,508 AGaz de France (Service National) · 2000
- Measurement-while-drilling devices with pad mounted sensors127US 6,173,793 B1Baker Hughes Incorporated · 2001
- System for monitoring the changes in fluid content of a petroleum reservoir105US 4,969,130 AHalliburton Geophysical Services, Inc. · 1990
- Stabilization system for measurement-while-drilling sensors88US 6,179,066 B2Baker Hughes Incorporated · 2001