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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8120991 | System and method for full azimuth angle domain imaging in reduced dimensional coordinate systems Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for converting coordinate systems for representing image data such as for example seismic data, including accepting a first set of seismic data, mapping the first set of seismic data to a second set of seismic... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8094515 | Seismic data visualizations Implementations of various technologies for a method for processing seismic data. A first portion of a record of pre-stack seismic data may be displayed in a three-dimensional XYZ (3-D XYZ) space. A selection may be received of a second portion of the record of the ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8045417 | Analyzing 2-D surface and/or borehole seismic data to locate subsurface diffractors A system and method for locating subsurface diffractors. The method operates on two-dimensional (2-D) seismic data that includes one or more 2-D seismic lines. The 2-D seismic data may be preprocessed to enhance diffracted energy. For each hypothetical diffractor lo... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7796469 | Method and program for fracture plane reconstruction The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) o... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7596056 | Method and program for fracture plane reconstruction The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) o... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7545704 | Performing 3-D scatterer imaging from 2-D seismic data A method for analyzing seismic data from a formation. The method may first receive two-dimensional (2-D) seismic data of a formation comprising a number of individual seismic lines acquired over an exploration area and having a large interline spacing. The 2-D seism... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7369973 | Method and system for representing reservoir systems The disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method of representing fluid flow in a physical fluid reservoir. The method includes generating a mesh representation of the physical fluid reservoir having a plurality of mesh elements. Each of the plurality of m... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7340098 | Method and apparatus for image conversion An image feature analyzing section performs an image feature analysis with respect to an input image to output an image feature vector. A parameter output section stores a plurality of image feature vectors and a plurality of parameters corresponding to the respecti... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333392 | Method for estimating and reconstructing seismic reflection signals A method for reconstructing seismic data signals of poor quality to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the data for display and analysis in connection with the selection of drilling sites for recovery of hydrocarbons. The method includes providing a signal model b... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330791 | Method for rapid fault interpretation of fault surfaces generated to fit three-dimensional seismic discontinuity data A method to extract fault surfaces from seismic data (1,3) is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) generating at least two fault sticks (5) from the same fault from at least two slices of the seismic data wherein each slice comprises at least one fault... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328139 | Device and software package for extracting a geological horizon and related properties The invention concerns a method for extracting a geological horizon and related properties of a seismic representation, comprising a step (100) which consists in digital modeling with continuous local seismic traces, calculating the optimal offset and definin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310579 | Method for generating a reservoir model on flexible grid A method having application notably to the development of petroleum reservoirs for fast generation of a geostatistical reservoir model on flexible grid, representative of a porous heterogeneous medium. A flexible grid best discretizing the medium is first generated.... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295930 | Method, device and software package for smoothing a subsurface property The invention concerns a method for smoothing a subsurface property in a geological structure represented by seismic measurements comprising a step (100) which consists in digital modelling by continuous local seismic traces, calculating an optimal offset and... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289938 | Method and a device for detecting discontinuities in a medium A method and a device for detecting discontinuities in a medium by detecting maxima, e.g. in an echo signal of an ultrasound excitation of the media, with maxima corresponding to a given discontinuity being grouped together as a function of coherence criteria applie... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283911 | System and method for interpreting reverse faults and multiple z-valued seismic horizons A system and method for interpreting reverse faults and multiple z-valued seismic horizons. A platform executable on a computer is provided for interpreting seismic data. The platform includes a user input module for accepting user inputs related to interpretation o... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266041 | Multi-attribute background relative scanning of 3D geophysical datasets for locally anomaluous data points Methods for scanning geophysical data sets to find geological entities with specific geophysical responses entail selecting a focus sub-volume and a background sub-volume proximal to the focus sub-volume. The sub-volumes include discrete sampling locations and are l... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260508 | Method and system for high-resolution modeling of a well bore in a hydrocarbon reservoir A method and system are disclosed for high-resolution modeling of a well bore in a reservoir. An embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of constructing a first unstructured mesh having a plurality of n-dimensional simplices corresponding to a first... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248539 | Extrema classification A method for automated extraction of surface primitives from seismic data is presented. A preferred embodiment of the method includes defining, typically with sub-sample precision, positions of seismic horizons through an extrema representation of a 3D seismic input... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248259 | Three dimensional geological model construction A method for modeling geological structures includes identifying fault planes in a geologic structure, and creating a set of substantially vertically oriented pillars along the fault plane. The pillar grids are then combined into a common three-dimensional grid pill... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7123766 | Method and system for recognizing and selecting a region of interest in an image A method and system for recognizing and selecting a portion of an image. The method and system employs user-controlled region growing to select a region within an image. The user manipulates a user input device to interactively increase or decrease the number of ite... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7096122 | Method for producing full field radial grid for hydrocarbon reservoir simulation A method producing full field radial grid includes both aerial and vertical gridding to divide a reservoir structure into simulation grid cells. The aerial gridding is performed by 1) specifying a reservoir boundary (including faults) and well locations; 2) distribu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092824 | Methods and systems for interactive investigation of geophysical data Methods and systems are provided for investigating an image set of geophysical data distributed over a first N-dimensional volume where N≧2. A subvolume that encloses a known feature of interest within a target set of geophysical data distributed over a second N-d... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7082367 | Seismic data calibration using crossplotted AVO attributes Disclosed herein are systems and methods for calibrating seismic data using seismic attribute pairs such as amplitude versus offset (AVO) attributes. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving traces from a seismic survey that covers a volume; determining a pai... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079953 | Method for creating facies probability cubes based upon geologic interpretation A method for creating a facies probability cube is disclosed. A S-grid containing facies is first created. The grid includes layers of cells and columns of cells. Vertical facies proportion data for the layers of cells is derived from sources such as well data, conc... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069149 | Process for interpreting faults from a fault-enhanced 3-dimensional seismic attribute volume A computer implemented method for interpreting faults from a fault-enhanced 3-D seismic attribute cube. The method includes the steps of extracting faults from a 3-D seismic attribute cube, and of calculating a minimum path value for each voxel of the 3-D seismic at... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7043413 | Method for modeling an arbitrary well path in a hydrocarbon reservoir using adaptive meshing Methods and systems for adapting an unstructured mesh to a modeled space. In one embodiment, a surface is defined in the modeled space, intersections of the surface with the elements of the mesh are determined, and new elements within the intersected elements are de... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024021 | Method for performing stratigraphically-based seed detection in a 3-D seismic data volume The invention is a method for performing a stratigraphically-based seed detection in a 3-D seismic data volume. The method incorporates criteria that honor the layered nature of the subsurface so that the resulting seismic objects are stratigraphically reasonable. T... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6996028 | Velocity analysis on seismic data A number of seismic stacks are precomputed (20) for known velocity fields. The velocity fields are chosen to span the range of velocities of interest. The stacks are then arranged (21) in the 3D memory of a graphics computer (10–14) using time... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6950751 | Method and apparatus for the assimilation and visualization of information from 3D data volumes The present invention provides a method and apparatus for displaying selected characteristics of geological features. Color-features, for example, hue, saturation and intensity, or other use selected color-features, are assigned to represent different attribute valu... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941255 | Feature modeling in a finite element model A method for simulating a physical system using finite element techniques, wherein two or more distinct models corresponding to distinct regions within the modeled system are solved, each with a corresponding evaluator. Nodes which lie on the boundaries between the ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6912467 | Method for estimation of size and analysis of connectivity of bodies in 2- and 3-dimensional data A method for performing region growing in a data volume that accounts for noise in the data on a probabilistic basis. The data volume is divided into discrete cells, and a probability distribution for each cell's datum value is calculated. Each probability distribut... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6826520 | Method of upscaling permeability for unstructured grids A method is provided for scaling up permeabilities associated with a fine-scale grid of cells representative of a porous medium to permeabilities associated with an unstructured coarse-scale grid of cells representative of the porous medium. An areally unstructured,... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823297 | Multi-scale finite-volume method for use in subsurface flow simulation A multi-scale finite-volume (MSFV) method to solve elliptic problems with a plurality of spatial scales arising from single or multi-phase flows in porous media is provided. Two sets of locally computed basis functions are employed. A first set of basis functions ca... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6763311 | Shaking test apparatus and method for structures A calculating device and method provided for a shaking test apparatus for carrying out a shaking test on a structure by using a partial structure and a numerical model which is virtually connected to the partial structure. The calculating device includes a calculati... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6681199 | Peak time detecting apparatus and method A product-sum operation portion for performing a product-sum operation (wavelet transformation) with respect to an input time-series signal by using as a base of integral a complex function in which the imaginary number portion is π/2 shifted in phase fr... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6665117 | Method and apparatus for interactive curved surface borehole interpretation and visualization An enlarged computer graphic image of borehole data is displayed on a concave three-dimensional surface, preferably a semi-cylindrical shape. Thus providing an enlarged image of a borehole surface where the data is spatially correct in three-dimensions, a... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6573855 | Three-dimensional questing method, three-dimensional voxel data displaying method, and device therefor In a three-dimensional exploring method for finding location of a buried object by transmitting a wave signal (4) by means of e.g. an electromagnetic wave into the ground (1) and receiving the signal reflected from the object (2) in the course of movement... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6424464 | Method and apparatus for interactive curved surface seismic interpretation and visualization An enlarged computer graphic image of seismic data is displayed on a concave three-dimensional surface having a shape corresponding to the shape of selected data extracted from a three-dimensional seismic volume. Thus providing an enlarged image of a seis... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6201765 | Method of monitoring quality of seismic data processing and method of processing vertical seismic profile data The processing of surface seismic data may be monitored where vertical seismic profile data are available for the same region. A trace (45) of the vertical seismic profile data recorded from a geophone at the surface is compared with data generated by the... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6106561 | Simulation gridding method and apparatus including a structured areal gridder adapted for use by a reservoir simulator A Flogrid Simulation Gridding Program includes a Flogrid structured gridder. The structured gridder includes a structured areal gridder and a block gridder. The structured areal gridder will build an areal grid on an uppermost horizon of an earth formatio... | 08/22/2000 |
