Granted Patent B2

US 12,565,835 · App. 18/221,015 · Granted Mar 3, 2026

Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones (Katy, TX); Jeffrey James Crawford (Katy, TX); Ahmed Fouda (Spring, TX)

Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

E21B47/135E21B49/087G01V9/00H04B10/70

Abstract

Claims (29)

1 . A system comprising:

a quantum entangled photon source that entangles an idler particle and a probe particle;

a transmitter disposed in a wellbore and connected to the quantum entangled photon source by a transmitter waveguide;

a receiver disposed in the wellbore;

a carrier laser connected to the receiver by a carrier waveguide;

a detector connected to the carrier waveguide; and

an information handling system in communication with the quantum entangled photon source, the carrier laser, and the detector.

2 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising an interface that connects the receiver to the carrier waveguide.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the interface transfers a radio frequency of the probe particle to an optical medium on the carrier waveguide.

4 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a splitter disposed on the transmitter waveguide between the quantum entangled photon source and the transmitter.

5 . The system of claim 4 , further comprising an idler waveguide that connects the splitter to the detector.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the splitter separates the idler particle and the probe particle.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter broadcasts the probe particle into a formation.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiver captures the probe particle from a formation.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the detector measures the idler particle at surface.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the idler particle is affected by the probe particle that the idler particle is entangled to.

11 . A method comprising:

entangling a probe particle and an idler particle in a quantum entangled photon source;

splitting the probe particle and the idler particle at a splitter, wherein the splitter is connected to the quantum entangled photon source by a transmitter waveguide

broadcasting the probe particle from the transmitter waveguide into a formation;

capturing the probe particle with at least one receiver after the probe particle has interacted with the formation;

changing a radio frequency of the probe particle to an optical medium at an interface; and

measuring the probe particle during an interaction with the formation using the idler particle in a detector.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising directing the idler particle through an idler waveguide and to the detector connected to the idler waveguide.

13 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising directing the probe particle through the transmitter waveguide to the transmitter.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the interface connects a carrier waveguide to the receiver.

15 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising transmitting a carrier light from a carrier laser through a carrier waveguide to the interface.

16 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the at least one receiver is connected to the detector by a carrier waveguide.

17 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising recording measurements taken by the detector with an information handling system that is connected to the detector.

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