Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated interpretation error correction
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Application No.: US14272210Application Date: 2014-05-07
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Publication No.: US09835747B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Matthias Imhof , Ethan Nowak , Pavel Dimitrov
- Applicant: Matthias Imhof , Ethan Nowak , Pavel Dimitrov
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring
- Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
- Current Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring
- Agency: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company—Law Department
- Main IPC: G01V1/00
- IPC: G01V1/00 ; G01V1/36 ; G01V1/32 ; G01V1/30

Abstract:
A fully automated method for correcting errors in one interpretation (13) of seismic data based on comparison to at least one other interpretation (14) of the same subsurface region. The errors may occur in any feature of the seismic data volume, for example a horizon, surface, fault, polyline, fault stick, or geo-body. In some embodiments of the invention, an error may be a hole in a horizon (53), and the whole is patched by a piece of a horizon in another interpretation (55). In an alternative embodiment of the invention, a single interpretation may be used to repair itself, for example by identifying similarly shaped, adjacent horizons (67), and merging them (68).
Public/Granted literature
- US20140358445A1 Automated Interpretation Error Correction Public/Granted day:2014-12-04
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