Houston F Mount

43960740, Aug 2, 1983

Nov 16, 1981

6/321655

Alfred H. Jageler - Tulsa OK
Lauren G. Kilmer - Tulsa OK
Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK
George W. Terral - Tulsa OK

Standard Oil Company (Indiana) - Chicago IL

E21B 2502
E21B 4906

175 78

This invention relates to an apparatus for cutting cores from the sidewall of a borehole after the borehole has been drilled. The apparatus includes an elongated housing which supports guide means which provides a path along which a core bit and motor can be moved to extend and retract the core bit. The guide means has a rotational control section and a transverse control section. The rotation control section guides the motor and its core bit from an upright position in the housing to a selected angle and the vertical transverse control section guides the coring bit means in the direction of the formation.

48005371, Jan 24, 1989

Aug 1, 1986

6/893055

Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

G01V 140

367 35

An apparatus and method of use thereof are disclosed herein for determining cement conditions adjacent a casing set within a wellbore. At least one acoustic transmitting and receiving transducer and at least one acoustic receiving transducer are positioned into contact with the interior surface of the casing. At least one pulse of acoustic energy is transmitted into the media surrounding the wellbore from the at least one acoustic transmitting and receiving transducer. Electrical signals are generated in response to acoustic energy received by both transducers from the surrounding media. Representations of the generated electrical signals are recorded as a function of the depth within the wellbore and are indicative of the cement conditions, including the casing-cement bond, the cement-formation bond, cement thickness, and the acoustic velocity associated with the cement.

52012190, Apr 13, 1993

Jun 29, 1990

7/546330

Eric L. Bandurski - Tulsa OK
John W. Kearns - Tulsa OK
Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

G01N 122
E21B 4902

73153

A heating probe and collection assembly is provided for evaluating free hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon potential of whole core. In one embodiment, the one or more assemblies are used with a core transport system to provide measures of hydrocarbon potential as a function of depth.

49739603, Nov 27, 1990

Feb 24, 1989

7/315883

Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

G06F 302

341 23

A housing includes a liquid crystal display, a keypad and a three ring notebook a plurality of pages therein. Each page includes a plurality of descriptors. A touch sensitive linear potentiometer is affixed to the housing adjacent a page bay into which the book pages can be received one at a time. Data concerning an observed characteristic of a geological core sample is entered into a computer memory by selecting a page and thereafter depressing the strip adjacent the descriptor of interest.

47745738, Sep 27, 1988

Apr 10, 1987

7/037294

Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK
Steven A. Morris - Sand Springs OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

H04N 531

358112

Apparatus for creating a video display from information generated by acoustically scanning a reflecting boundary circumferential of a borehole. A downhole tool generates a first signal each time a rotating transducer therein passes through magnetic north. Acoustic pulses emitted from the transducer are radially transmitted toward a borehole reflecting boundary. At least a portion of each pulse is reflected back to the transducer where the same is detected and converted to an electrical pulse representative of the reflected acoustic pulse. The peak of each electrical pulse is detected and the value digitized. A series of different addresses is associated with each digital value from a single 360. degree. borehole scan and the same are accumulated in a RAM with each digital value being stored therein at its associated address. A central processing unit selects a block of video memory locations in a video memory responsive to the magnetic north signal.

46495509, Mar 10, 1987

Dec 22, 1982

6/452254

Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

H04L 2700

375 37

A system for transmitting information contained in the form of bits. An encoded signal of two levels of magnitude is generated so that for each data word in the signal, the duration of the encoded signal at one level is equal to the duration of the encoded signal at the second level. The encoded signal is then used to generate a slope signal. It is this slope signal which is transmitted.

48855405, Dec 5, 1989

Oct 31, 1988

7/264927

Michael L. Snoddy - Tulsa OK
Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

G01R 3320

324318

Porosity logs of continuous core are generated using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Core containing naturally-occurring fluids is conveyed between poles of a magnet for NMR analysis. The NMR measures porosity and preferably oil and water saturation and even porosity distribution in the reservoir rock at intervals along the core. The core conveyor, the NMR, and data collection and display are controlled by a processor.

50126741, May 7, 1991

Oct 31, 1988

7/265073

Keith K. Millheim - Tulsa OK
Houston B. Mount - Tulsa OK
Chandra S. Rai - Tulsa OK
Carl H. Sondergeld - Broken Arrow OK

Amoco Corporation - Chicago IL

E21B 4902

73153

A method of exploring for hydrocarbons is disclosed wherein core is obtained over substantially the entire length of a well and substantially all lithologies represented within the core are analyzed at a core analysis facility located adjacent the well. A measurement of a plurality of physical properties of the core are made promptly after the core is removed from the well. Thereafter, from the measurement of these physical properties, a depth correlated record is generated, and is used (a) to adjust the drilling plan for that well while it is being drilled, (b) used as inputs into other exploration processes, such as seismic surveys, magnetic surveys and gravity surveys, or (c) used for correlation with other depth correlated records obtained from other wells.