Patent 7746725 was granted and assigned to Schlumberger on June, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method for identifying one or more fracture clusters in a formation surrounding a reservoir. In one implementation, the method may include generating a P to S image, comparing the P to S image to one or more images from a borehole, and identifying one or more fracture clusters using the P to S image and the borehole images.