Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of characterising a subsurface volume
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Application No.: US15506851Application Date: 2015-08-26
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Publication No.: US10705235B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Pierre Thore , Pierre Bergey
- Applicant: Total SA
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: Total SA
- Current Assignee: Total SA
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agent Ross T. Robinson
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@54f5e16d
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/069567 WO 20150826
- International Announcement: WO2016/030432 WO 20160303
- Main IPC: G01V11/00
- IPC: G01V11/00 ; G01V1/30 ; G01V99/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of characterizing a subsurface volume. The method comprises: extracting a geobody from seismic data arranged within a discretized volume comprising a plurality of cells, the geobody comprising a subset of the plurality of cells, each cell of the subset having one or more properties indicative of a particular fluid phase. The extraction of the geobody comprises: determining a propagation probability value for each cell indicative of the probability that a front will propagate through the cell; beginning from a source within the discretized volume, using the propagation probability value to calculate a traveltime for each cell, the travel time describing the time the front takes to travel from the source point to the cell; and using the traveltimes to extract the geobody from the seismic data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170248718A1 METHOD OF CHARACTERISING A SUBSURFACE VOLUME Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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