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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103452 | Correction method for processing seismic traces This invention relates to a method for processing seismic data comprising a collection of seismic traces with different offsets, comprising the steps of: a) breaking up one or several first trace(s) of the collection of seismic traces into a series of trace segment'... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095319 | 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... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082106 | 3D surface related multiple elimination for wide azimuth seismic data According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for the imaging and monitoring of the subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs and other subsurface features, wherein the collected seismic data contain multiples therein... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078406 | Processing seismic data in common group-center gathers A method for processing seismic data. The method includes plotting a travel-time curve and one or more actual times that each seismic receiver receives one or more seismograms on a graph. The travel-time curve represents an approximate time that each seismic receive... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073624 | Technique and system to process a seismic signal to determine an attribute of a geological layer A technique includes receiving seismic data indicative of a signal, which is produced by the interaction of reflection interfaces with a source wavelet. The reflection interfaces are associated with boundaries of a geological layer. The technique includes processing... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073625 | 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 ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068986 | Methods and apparatus related to sensor signal sniffing and/or analysis The disclosure relates to Sensor security and Business Intelligence and more particularly to detecting and capturing Sensor information of data in a network environment and extracting information from this un-structured data. Sensors can correspond to video cameras,... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065088 | Extraction of depositional systems A process that assists with the identification of potential hydrocarbon deposits that includes performing a structural interpretation of a three-dimensional seismic volume, transforming the three-dimensional seismic volume into a stratal-slice volume, performing a s... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060313 | Simulation system using electromagnetic field analysis and circuit analysis and recording medium storing simulation program A simulation system includes electromagnetic field analyzing units that execute electromagnetic field analysis with respect to electromagnetic field analysis areas obtained by division of an area to be analyzed into the electromagnetic field analysis areas; one or m... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060312 | System and method for migrating seismic data A system and method that enable the processing of seismic data. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of processing nodes and a server. The plurality of processing nodes are configured to process seismic data for migration. The server is operatively link... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055449 | Determining fault transmissivity in a subterranean reservoir To determine fault transmissivity in a subterranean reservoir, fault structures in the subterranean reservoir are identified, and elastic impedance data is computed from well log data and seismic data. Normalization parameters that have a predetermined orientation w... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032304 | System and method for deriving seismic wave fields using both ray-based and finite-element principles A system and method approximate a set of wave equations describing the propagation of seismic waves of one or more frequencies through a seismic volume of interest. In one embodiment, a ray-based initial beam solution is determined that describes the propagation of ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019549 | Event-based power management for seismic sensors A method of event-based power management for seismic sensors is disclosed. The method comprises measuring seismic activity with a seismic sensor and comparing the measured seismic activity from the seismic sensor against at least one criteria. When the measured seis... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014950 | System and method for seismic trace analysis Seismic data are processed to reduce or eliminate aliasing due, for example to sparse or irregular sampling. An iterative method includes an inhibiting function used in conjunction with a function evaluating a magnitude of Fourier coefficients that together act to r... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010293 | Localized seismic imaging using diplets Methods, systems, and software for determining a seismic image of a target area are disclosed. The target area is defined by a volume of interest (VOI). The method includes receiving an unmigrated set of spatial wavelets, wherein the unmigrated set of spatial wavele... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010294 | Extraction of depositional systems A process that assists with the identification of potential hydrocarbon deposits that includes performing a structural interpretation of a three-dimensional seismic volume, transforming the three-dimensional seismic volume into a stratal-slice volume, performing a s... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7983847 | Method and system for the transmission of seismic data The transmission method utilizes multiple seismic acquisition units within an array as intermediate short range radio receivers/transmitters to pass collected seismic data in relay fashion back to a control station. Any one seismic unit in the array is capable of tr... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979210 | Correction for errors caused by variation in water conditions Method for processing seismic data to correct for errors caused by variation in water conditions. In one implementation, the method may include (a) applying a dip correction to a plurality of observed water bottom reflection times using a model water velocity and an... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7953555 | Seismic measurement system including GPS receivers A system for determining positions of fixed-position satellite signal receivers that have restricted views of the sky includes a data recording control center, and one or more base satellite signal receivers with associated antennas that together have substantially ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7917295 | Modeling and filtering coherent noise in seismic surveying Seismic data collected by a group of seismic receivers is received, and properties of coherent noise for plural modes of the coherent noise based on the received seismic data are computed to produce a model of the coherent noise for the plural modes. Using the model... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908086 | System and method for filtering seismic noise data to analyze seismic events A method for filtering noise from seismic data is disclosed. The method includes: receiving at least one seismic data set; computing a value of at least one subset of a plurality of subsets of the at least one seismic data set; computing quartiles and an upper moust... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7890265 | Method for filtering seismic data, particularly by kriging A method of filtering at least two series of seismic data representative of the same zone, the method including the step of determining an estimate of the component that is common to the data series, and the step of deducing from this estimate a resolution of the da... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7869955 | Subsurface prediction method and system A method of predicting subsurface properties of a geologic formation includes acquiring seismic data for a subsurface region including the geologic formation of interest, computing seismic attributes of the measured seismic data over at least part of this geologic f... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7844402 | System and method for fault identification A system, which may be and/or may include a computer system (1, 100), and method (3) for identifying a fault patch position from a seismic data volume (103). The system and method may include defining an initial active surface (310) in th... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7805251 | Two slope reference for synthetic thermal time of flight imaging A method including receiving a first line and a second line to be joined at a junction location to provide a reference curve. A corresponding system and computer program product. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805250 | Methods and apparatus for geophysical exploration via joint inversion Methods and apparatus are provided for generating velocity models for pre-stack depth migration (“PSDM”). Seismic, gravity and electromagnetic joint inversion input data are generated based on observed seismic, gravity and electromagnetic data (e.g., magnetotell... | 09/28/2010 |
| RE41656 | Method and system for reducing effects of sea surface ghost contamination in seismic data An improved de-ghosting method and system that utilizes multi-component marine seismic data recorded in a fluid medium. The method makes use of two types of data: pressure data that represents the pressure in the fluid medium, such as sea water, at a number of locat... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7774142 | Processing seismic data A method of determining a vertical component of particle velocity from seismic data acquired using at least one receiver disposed within a water column includes determining the vertical component of particle velocity from the pressure at a first location and a secon... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769545 | Method for determining geological information related to a subsurface volume of interest A method of determining geological information related to a subsurface volume. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a seismic information related to a subsurface volume; determining a horizon volume that automatically maps the seismic information into a... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769546 | Method for indexing a subsurface volume for the purpose of inferring geologic information A method of determining a horizon volume. In one embodiment, the horizon volume is determined from obtained seismic information, and maps the obtained seismic information onto a flattened volume such that in the flattened volume, horizons represented in the obtained... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7739051 | 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. This is done utilizing traces of a recorded 3-D marine survey with one or more cables. Locations of each diffractor are determined by comparing the lateral coherency of ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729862 | Frequency autonormalisation reservoir mapping A method of locating subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs includes acquiring seismic data, dividing the seismic data into time windows, applying a data transform to the seismic data having a plurality of components to obtain a smoothed frequency spectrum, selecting one... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725264 | In-field control module for managing wireless seismic data acquisition systems and related methods An exemplary system for managing the deployment of a seismic data acquisition system uses a module configured to execute a plurality of task in the field by receiving one or more seismic devices. The module may include a power source that provides electrical power t... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725265 | VH signal integration measure for seismic data A method and system of processing seismic data includes acquiring three-component seismic data and combining horizontal components of the three-component seismic data to obtain a merged horizontal component. Frequency spectra are determined for the acquired three-co... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715985 | Method of evaluating the interaction between a wavefield and a solid body Described is a finite-difference methodology for efficiently computing the response from a model subject to changes within sub-volumes with the sub-volume enclosed with an extrapolation surface within an injection boundary using Green's functions to update the injec... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715986 | Method for identifying and removing multiples for imaging with beams The present invention incorporates the use of model-driven and data-driven methodologies to attenuate multiples in seismic data utilizing a prediction model which includes multiply-reflected, surface-related seismic waves. The present invention includes beam techniq... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715987 | Method of and apparatus for processing seismic data A method of processing seismic data that includes including first and second modes of seismic energy where the second mode has been generated by partial mode conversion of the first mode at a boundary face of a layer of the seabed includes the step of cross-correlat... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706981 | Method for generating reservoir models utilizing synthetic stratigraphic columns The present invention incorporates the use of geophysical, geological and formation evaluation data to develop synthetic stratigraphic columns based on depositional rules and sedimentary stacking patterns. The present invention utilizes dynamic assignment and matchi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702463 | Systems and methods for enhancing a seismic data image Systems and methods for enhancing the resolution of a seismic data image displayed on a face of a sampling probe. The enhanced image represents a maximum resolution of at least a portion of the seismic data image. The seismic data image is enhanced by extracting sei... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698066 | Method and apparatus for estimating formation slowness A method and apparatus for estimating the slowness of a geological formation using waveforms recorded by an acoustic borehole logging tool. Phase slowness coherence is extracted from the recorded waveforms after transformation to the frequency domain (804) at... | 04/13/2010 |
