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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7295928 | Enhancing the quality and resolution of an image generated from single or multiple sources The present invention provides a method and apparatus for logging an earth formation and acquiring subsurface information wherein a logging tool is conveyed in a borehole to obtain parameters of interest. The parameters of interest obtained may be density, acoustic,... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7292241 | Process for calculating meshed realizations of a reservoir A process for calculating a meshed description of a realization of an oil-bearing reservoir takes as its starting point a reference realization of the reservoir with a plurality of stratigraphic surfaces, a meshed reference description for the reference realization ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292943 | System and method for control of seismic data acquisition The present invention provides an interactive system for controlling seismic data acquisition. A central controller controls seismic sources, detectors and receivers. A user/operator is provided one or more views of the operational components over a graphical user i... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289910 | Method for packing and filtering geophysical events to retrieve therefrom data on the type of subsoil The invention relates to a method for packing and filtering geophysical events read on multi-domain records, with distribution of said events into families each having a particular geophysical significance: iso-offset or iso-incidence angle data cubes, elastic param... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7286690 | Method for imaging of pre-stack seismic data Prestack seismic data is imaged by calculating an individual reflectivity for each frequency in the seismic data. Then, a mean reflectivity is calculating over the individual reflectivities. A variance is calculated for the set of reflectivities versus frequency. A ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286938 | Method of and an apparatus for processing seismic data A method is provided of processing multi-component seismic data acquired by emitting multi-component seismic energy at a source location and acquiring seismic data at a multi-component seismic receiver located at a greater depth than the source location. The seismic... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286939 | Method for estimating porosity and saturation in a subsurface reservoir A method and apparatus for estimating a porosity and a saturation in a subsurface reservoir. The method includes determining a plurality of mathematical relationships relating a plurality of fundamental physical parameters that govern elastic wave propagation in the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7283910 | Incremental depth measurement for real-time calculation of dip and azimuth The present invention provides a method and apparatus for logging an earth formation and acquiring subsurface information wherein a logging tool is conveyed in borehole to obtain parameters of interest. The parameters of interest obtained may be density, acoustic, m... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280932 | Method, systems, and computer readable media for optimizing the correlation of well log data using dynamic programming A method, systems, and computer readable media optimize the correlation of well log data utilizing dynamic programming. A geological signature in well log data from a reference well is mapped onto well log data from one or more target wells by using a dynamic progra... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280893 | Business management system and method for a deregulated electric power market A business management method with interaction between an electrical energy supplier and a plurality of customer energy consumers includes the consumers providing respective electricity load profiles to the energy supplier. The method also includes the energy supplie... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280918 | Method and system for combining seismic data and basin modeling Methods and computer-based systems are provided for processing seismic data through the use of information provided by basin modeling. Provided are methods and systems for providing an improved seismic dataset by means of providing an initial basin model constructed... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275501 | System and method using capacitors to power an automatic feeder system A method and apparatus relates to systems powered by energy stored in capacitors. The capacitors may be charged using any desired power source. The system does not require batteries, which increases the reliability and life span of the system. In one example, an aut... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274991 | Geosteering in anisotropic formations using multicomponent induction measurements A multicomponent induction logging tool is used on a MWD bottomhole assembly. Multifrequency focusing that accounts for the finite, nonzero, conductivity of the mandrel is applied. Using separation of modes, the principal components and relative dip angles in an ani... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274993 | Method for forming an optimum stochastic model of a heterogeneous underground zone, calibrated with dynamic data by parametrization of continuous distributions A computer implemented method for forming an optimum stochastic model representative of the spatial distribution, in a heterogeneous underground zone, of physical quantities such as permeability and porosity, based upon measured dynamic data, representative of fluid... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272505 | Determination of geophone coupling Information about coupling of a seismic receiver is obtained from a power spectrum for a record acquired at a seismic receiver. In one method, the power spectrum for the record is compared with a reference power spectrum, which may be known a priori or which may be ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269537 | Infrasound sensor with disturbance filtering The invention pertains to the sensing and measurement of infrasound (pressure variations with frequency content under 10 Hertz). The invention measures the infrasound pressure variations and then attenuates undesired contributions due to, but not limited to, changes... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269095 | Synchronization of seismic data acquisition systems A network distributed seismic data acquisition system comprises seismic receivers connected to remote acquisition modules, receiver lines, line tap units, base lines, a central recording system and a seismic source event generation unit synchronized to a master cloc... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269515 | Geosteering in anisotropic formations using multicomponent induction measurements A multicomponent induction logging tool is used on a MWD bottomhole assembly. Multifrequency focusing that accounts for the finite, nonzero, conductivity of the mandrel is applied. Using separation of modes, the principal components and relative dip angles in an ani... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7258326 | Wall made of bagel split tires Above ground fencing is constructed with slices of used tires from vehicles. There are various arrangements of tire slices and inter-slice binding and anchorage of slices in places. One use for such fencing is for roadway collision safety. One use of the tread porti... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257492 | Handling of static corrections in multiple prediction A method is for use in seismic data processing includes improving the continuity of the primary events in an original seismic dataset to create a continuous, seismic dataset; predicting at least the first order multiples of the original seismic dataset from the cont... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254091 | Method for estimating and/or reducing uncertainty in reservoir models of potential petroleum reservoirs A method for estimating and/or reducing uncertainty in reservoir models of potential petroleum reservoirs comprises receiving the results of a stochastic seismic inversion, and transforming the inversion data into a form suitable for reservoir modelling and flow sim... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248052 | Electric power grid induced geophysical prospecting method and apparatus A geophysical prospecting method and apparatus that utilizes the harmonics and sub harmonics waves induced into the earth by the electric power grid. The amplitude-frequency data are converted to amplitude-depth data and further converted to a differential curve. Th... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7243121 | System and method for dividing computations In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method for receiving a parent job configured to produce one or more descendant jobs, and scheduling computation of the parent job on a node computing device that is one of a plurality of node computing devices ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7230879 | Method and apparatus for true relative amplitude correction of seismic data for normal moveout stretch effects The present invention provides a method and apparatus for arriving at true relative amplitude destretched seismic traces from stretched seismic traces. The method compensates for offset varying reflection interference effects due to normal moveout. Stretch factors Î... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228548 | Nine layer architecture A province architecture includes a witness province, an action province, and a yoke province. The witness province may contain a collection layer, an envoy layer, and a naturalization layer configured to identify data and transmit data to and from multiple types of ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227362 | Electric power grid induced geophysical prospecting method and apparatus An underground prospecting method and apparatus that utilizes the harmonics and fractional harmonic waves induced into the earth by the electric power grid. The data are converted to amplitude-depth and phase-depth data. The resulting data may be plotted and are com... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228236 | Subarray matching beamformer apparatus and method A method of beam forming an array, by computer processing a cross covariance, of the reference sub array seismic signal data signal, by having an unknown shape comprising receiving acoustic signals, via the array, and computing the data and segmenting the array into... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223962 | Digital optical signal transmission in a seismic sensor array The invention describes a sensor array with digital signals transmitted over an optical fiber for seismic exploration systems. The seismic system includes a transducer for providing digital optical data signals and an optical interrogator for collecting the digital ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224642 | Wireless sensor data processing systems A wireless network includes a plurality of sensors; and a wireless station adapted to communicate with the plurality of sensors, each wireless station having a positioning system to provide 3D coordinates, each wireless station being part of a mesh network and each ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222020 | System and method for determining oil or mineral deposits A system and method determines the probability of oil or mineral deposits. At least one data collection device collects elevation slope, magnetic and gravity data sets for a predetermined area of the earth's surface. A processor receives the elevation slope, magneti... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218612 | Network synchronization A network arrangement uses a poll select control protocol and a loop back arrangement at each node for equalizing transmission delay from each node to a central station. Delays at each node can be adjusted to start timing in response to a broadcast signal indicating... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206782 | Method for deriving a GrAZ seismic attribute file The method for deriving a GrAZ seismic attribute file entails inputting a horizon file and an attribute file, obtaining the gradient of the horizon file thereby producing a horizon vector file, indexing from the attribute file data at corresponding geographic locati... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203600 | Geophysical data processing A mehtod of determinig an integral of a function over an n-dimensional intergratio domain from the values of the function at a plurality of discrete data points within the integration domain, comprises partitioning the integration domain into a plurality of k-dimens... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203606 | Information processing apparatus for numerically analyzing incompressible fluid and method therefor During an incompressible fluid movement, three consecutive times during the movement of the fluid are called first, second, and third times in time order, calculation is performed with two different types of lattices for the first and third times and for the second ... | 04/10/2007 |
