Method, apparatus and system for detecting seismic waves in a borehole

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APP PUB NO 20040117119A1
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10322259

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A method, apparatus and system for detecting seismic waves. A sensing apparatus is deployed within a bore hole and may include a source magnet for inducing a magnetic field within a casing of the borehole. An electrical coil is disposed within the magnetic field to sense a change in the magnetic field due to a displacement of the casing. The electrical coil is configured to remain substantially stationary relative to the well bore and its casing along a specified axis such that displacement of the casing induces a change within the magnetic field which may then be sensed by the electrical coil. Additional electrical coils may be similarly utilized to detect changes in the same or other associated magnetic fields along other specified axes. The additional sensor coils may be oriented substantially orthogonally relative to one another so as to detect seismic waves along multiple orthogonal axes in three dimensional space.

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BECHTEL BWXT IDAHO LLCP O BOX 1625 IDAHO FALLS ID 83415-3899

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sumstine, Roger L St. George, UT 2 21
West, Phillip B Idaho Falls, ID 19 583

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