• Patent Title: Method of characterising a subsurface volume
  • Application No.: US15506851
    Application Date: 2015-08-26
  • Publication No.: US10705235B2
    Publication Date: 2020-07-07
  • Inventor: Pierre ThorePierre 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
Method of characterising a subsurface volume
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.
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