Patent attributes
A method for determining a property of a formation, including the steps: drilling a well in the formation, collecting drill cuttings from the well, taking a digital image of each drill cutting, entering each digital image to a trained first model that outputs a predicted lithology class of each drill cutting from each digital image, taking a random number of X-ray diffraction (XRD) images of the drill cuttings, while at least one XRD image is selected from each lithology class, entering each XRD image and the corresponding digital image into a trained second model that predicts a property of the drill cuttings, and determining the property of the formation by determining the properties of the drill cuttings as a function of the depth of the drill cuttings.
