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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120072117 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES A system and method for generating images of a subsurface region of interest is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating images related to a subsurface region of interest includes: accessing, via a central processing unit (CPU), seismic d... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120035853 | UNIQUE COMPOSITE RELATIVELY ADJUSTED PULSE The invention relates to acquiring seismic data in either land or marine environments, but typically marine environments where a pulse-type source is fired in a distinctive composite pulse like a distinctive rumble. In a preferred embodiment, a number of pulse-type seis... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029828 | CHRONO-STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONO-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION ON SEISMIC VOLUMES A method for performing chrono-stratigraphic interpretation of a subterranean formation. The method includes obtaining a seismic volume containing stratigraphic features of the subterranean formation deformed by structural events, performing structural restoration of th... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029827 | INTERACTIVE STRUCTURAL RESTORATION WHILE INTERPRETING SEISMIC VOLUMES FOR STRUCTURE AND STRATIGRAPHY A method for performing seismic interpretation of a subterranean formation by enabling dual-domain interpretation of seismic features in the present day depth domain and simultaneously in a structurally restored “mapped” seismic domain. Specifically, seismic interpr... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022791 | VH Reservoir Mapping with Borehole Sensors A method and system of detecting and mapping a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir includes determining ratio data for a plurality of orthogonal spectral components of naturally occurring low frequency background seismic data. The ratio data may be compared, plotted, conto... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016591 | TIME REVERSE IMAGING ATTRIBUTES WITH BOREHOLE DATA A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data propagation process is applied to the synchronized array meas... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016592 | IMAGE DOMAIN SIGNAL TO NOISE ESTIMATE WITH BOREHOLE DATA A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data propagation process is applied to the synchronized array meas... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016590 | VH Reservoir Mapping with Synchronous Data A method and system of detecting and mapping a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir includes determining ratio data for a plurality of orthogonal spectral components of naturally occurring low frequency background seismic data. The ratio data may be compared, plotted, conto... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110320180 | Migration Velocity Analysis of Seismic Data Using Common Image Cube and Green's Functions Seismic data are assembled and stored for a set of cross-correlation lag times to form an array of common image gathers over depth levels of interest. The two dimensional gathers assembled over different lag times form a three-dimensional cube of common image data. The ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110295510 | Active Noise Injection Computations for Improved Predictability in Oil and Gas Reservoir Characterization and Microseismic Event Analysis Application of nonlinear resonance interferometry is introduced as a new geophysical approach to improve predictability in characterization of subsurface microseismic event analysis and propagation of fracture. In contrast to reflection methods that remove random inform... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110276272 | TIME REVERSE IMAGING ATTRIBUTES A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data propagation process is applied to the synchronized array meas... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276273 | IMAGE DOMAIN SIGNAL TO NOISE ESTIMATE A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data propagation process is applied to the synchronized array meas... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270526 | UPDATING INFORMATION REGARDING SECTIONS OF A STREAMER THAT ARE IN A BODY OF WATER To perform a marine survey, a streamer is deployed into a body of water, where the streamer has plural first sensors to perform a subterranean survey. Indications are received from second sensors in corresponding sections of the streamer, where the indications are regar... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110238315 | Method of imaging the subsurface using stacked seismic data from azimuthally varying velocity and amplitude information Fast anisotropy axis values are determined for each bin in seismic data binned by azimuth. A fast azimuth gather is determined within each bin in the seismic data from the fast anisotropy axis values. The earth's subsurface is imaged, using the fast azimuth gathers.... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110218737 | Active Noise Injection Computations for Improved Predictability in Oil and Gas Reservoir Discovery and Characterization Application of nonlinear resonance interferometry is introduced as a new geophysical approach to improve predictability in characterization of subsurface porosity, rock and fluid properties. In contrast to reflection methods that remove random information noise, nonline... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110153218 | DIPLET-BASED SEISMIC PROCESSING Methods, systems and software for generating a multi-dimensional volume are disclosed. The methods include decomposing one or more original volumes into a collection of diplets, wherein each diplet comprises information about spatial location, orientation, amplitude, wa... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110139462 | METHODS OF INVESTIGATING AN UNDERGROUND FORMATION AND PRODUCING HYDROCARBONS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A method of investigating an underground formation underneath the earth's surface, comprising obtaining a first data set representing change in a predetermined seismic parameter over a period of time for a plurality of points in the underground formation, which first da... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110137569 | Method For Combining Seismic Data Sets A method is disclosed for combining seismic data sets. This method has application in merging data sets of different vintages, merging data sets collected using different acquisition technologies, and merging data sets acquired using different types of sensors, for exam... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110130967 | METHOD OF CORRECTING AMPLITUDES IN VIRTUAL SOURCE IMAGING OF SEISMIC DATA A method for imaging a subsurface formation using at least two seismic sources and receivers comprises: a) creating a wave field in the formation, b) obtaining a set of responses for each receiver and performing wave field separation on them, c) obtaining a virtual sour... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110120706 | Refining Information on Subterranean Fractures Systems, methods, and instructions encoded in a computer-readable medium can perform operations related to refining information on characteristics of natural fractures of a subterranean formation. Fracture pattern models are generated based on sampling an initial distri... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110118985 | CONSISTENT DIP ESTIMATION FOR SEISMIC IMAGING Systems and methods perform consistent dip estimation for seismic imaging. An example system applies global consistency constraints during iterative volume dip estimation of a seismic volume to improve upon conventional dip estimation methods. With each iteration, the s... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110096627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEISMIC IMAGING AND EARTH MODELING USING BEAM TOMOGRAPHY A beam tomography computer implemented method and system for generating improved seismic images and earth models without dependence on reflector structure is disclosed. Recorded seismic data is transformed into data beams which are compared to forward modeled beams usin... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING ARRIVALS OF SEISMIC ENERGY TO ENHANCE SUBSURFACE IMAGING Seismic data acquired at or near a geologic volume of interest is processed. This may include forming an image of the geologic volume of interest from the seismic data. The seismic data may be processed by aggregating energy arrivals to reduce the number of imaging proc... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110082646 | Noise Attenuation in Passive Seismic Data Passive seismic data is collected from measurements of seismic sensors in respective sensor assemblies, where the passive seismic data is based on measurements collected during periods when no active seismic source was activated. Attenuation of surface noise in the pass... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110071763 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAULT IDENTIFICATION A system, which may be and/or may include a computer system, and method for identifying a fault patch position from a seismic data volume. The system and method may include defining an initial active surface in the seismic data volume; identifying one or more active sur... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100312480 | METHOD FOR MONITORING FLUID FLOW IN A MULTI-LAYERED SYSTEM A method for monitoring the movement of fluid through a subsurface formation of interest, comprising: a) providing a set of signals obtained by transmitting seismic waves through the formation of interest and receiving signals emanating from the multi-layered system in ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100299071 | METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA OBTAINED FROM SEISMIC PROSPECTING A method of calculating a seismic noise image for a formation comprises the steps of: a) obtaining data representing a multicomponent seismic signal from at least one receiver, in response to transmitting seismic waves into the formation; b) obtaining a velocity model o... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100286919 | Characterizing Spatial Variability of Surface Waves In Seismic Processing Embodiments use seismic processing methods that account for the spatial variability of surface wave velocities. Embodiments analyze surface wave properties by rapidly characterizing spatial variability of the surface waves in the seismic survey data (302). Filter... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100268471 | METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA OBTAINED FROM SEISMIC PROSPECTING A method of processing data obtained from seismic prospecting of an earth formation, comprises obtaining data representing a multicomponent seismic signal from a multicomponent seismic receiver at a receiver location in an earth formation, in response to transmitting se... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262373 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MICROSEISMIC MAPPING Methods and systems for the detection and localization of microseismic events are proposed which operate in real-time. Hypocenters in three spatial dimensions are provided along with an estimate of the event origin time. Sensor positions may be distributed in 3D space, ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100223012 | Method for Determination of Diffractor Locations at Sea Bottom for the Purpose of Attenuating Such Energy Coherency analysis, such as semblance scan or stacking amplitude, is used to locate diffractors. Once the diffractors are located, noise energy originating from the diffractors is minimized. Locations of each diffractor are determined by comparing the lateral coherency ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100212909 | Method For Analyzing Multiple Geophysical Data Sets An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method for interpolating seismic data. The method includes collecting seismic data of two or more types over a field (401), determining an approximation to one of the types of the seismic data (402 | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100153015 | VH reservoir mapping A method and system of detecting and mapping a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir includes determining ratio data for a plurality of orthogonal spectral components of naturally occurring low frequency background seismic data. The ratio data may be compared, plotted, conto... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100142322 | ADAPTIVE WAVEFRONT RECONSTRUCTION A method for generating a synthetic seismogram. In one implementation, a ray tracing may be performed on a subsurface. The ray tracing may generate a plurality of rays. A first seismic wavefront by may be reconstructed by triangulating a first plurality of control point... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100139927 | METHOD OF IMAGING OF SEISMIC DATA INVOLVING A VIRTUAL SOURCE, METHODS OF PRODUCING A HYDROCARBON FLUID, AND A COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Method of imaging seismic data recorded using a set of seismic receivers positioned to receive seismic responses from a subsurface formation upon activating a seismic source. The seismic responses are direction-sensitive responses. A virtual signal received by receiver ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100114494 | Estimation of propagation angles of seismic waves in geology with application to determination of propagation velocity and angle-domain imaging The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium to implement computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth. The invention computes the true propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth, which is a condition of obtaining an accurate... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100088035 | PSEUDO-ANALYTICAL METHOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF WAVE EQUATIONS The instant invention is a method for numerically propagating waves or solving wave equations on a digital computer. This invention can be used to compute highly accurate solutions to the wave equation, in fact in some cases it computes the analytical solution, somethin... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100036614 | Locating oil or gas passively by observing a porous oil and gas saturated system giving off its characteristic resonance response to ambient background noise, including optional differentiation of oil, locatinggas and water This patent deals with methods to extract and analyze seismic signals due to resonance phenomena in an enclosed oil, gas, or water reservoir, which are passively excited by seismic background noise, locating thereby the presence of the reservoir by doing qualitative and... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100004870 | Method of Joint Inversion of Seismic Data Represented on Different Time Scales A method of constructing an image representative of a heterogeneous medium by a procedure of joint inversion of seismic data represented on different time scales having an application for underground reservoir exploration. Sequential inversion of the seismic data is per... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090292476 | METHOD OF SEISMIC DATA INTERPOLATION BY PROJECTION ON CONVEX SETS According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for Interpolation of seismic data with a POCS (projection onto convex sets) algorithm that can produce high quality interpolation results, at a reduced computational c... | 11/26/2009 |
