Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for electromagnetic waterfront surveillance in a vicinity of an oil well
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Application No.: US16410804Application Date: 2019-05-13
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Publication No.: US11035972B2Publication Date: 2021-06-15
- Inventor: Daniele Colombo , Gary W. McNeice , Ernesto Sandoval-Curiel
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G01V3/08
- IPC: G01V3/08 ; G01V3/12 ; G01V3/26

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and devices for performing real-time detecting and spatially-positioning a waterfront in an oil-producing reservoirs are disclosed. An example method of predicting movement of a waterfront in a reservoir may include generating a plurality of electrical signals having different frequencies with a surface electric source; injecting currents corresponding to the plurality of generated signals into the earth near a well extending into the reservoir with a surface dipole; sensing a vertical component of an electric field generated by each of the injected currents at a location in the reservoir with a sensor; detecting a location of the waterfront within the reservoir based on the received vertical components of the electric fields; and analyzing the detected vertical components of the electric fields taken on at least two different points in time with machine learning to predict a rate of movement of the waterfront within the reservoir.
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