Patents by Inventor Chunling Wu

Chunling Wu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11754733
    Abstract: A method is described for seismic imaging improved by an estimation of attenuation including receiving a pre-migration seismic dataset D(s, r; t) representative of a subsurface volume of interest wherein s indicates source location, r indicates receiver location, and t is the recorded travel time; calculating a pre-migration attenuated travel time t*(s, r; t); computing a time derivative of the pre-migration attenuated travel time wherein 1/Q(s, r; t)=?t*(s, r; t)/?t; performing a first migration on D(s,r;t) to generate common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h) wherein x is subsurface image point and h is angle or offset; performing a second migration on D(s, r; t)*1/Q(s, r; t) to generate weighted common image point (CIP) gathers G1/Q(x, h); and calculating a conditioned ratio of the weighted CIP gathers G1/Q(x, h) over the CIP gathers G(x, h) to get CIP gathers of 1/Q(x, h) is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghe J. Sun, Chunling Wu, Mark Chengliang Fan
  • Publication number: 20230140168
    Abstract: A method is described for seismic data processing including receiving a seismic dataset D(s, r; t) representative of a subsurface volume of interest; calculating a pre-migration attenuated travel time t*(s, r; t); performing a first migration on D(s, r; t) to generate common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h); performing a second migration on D(s, r; t)*t*(s, r; t) to generate weighted common image point (CIP) gathers Gt*(x, h); and calculating a conditioned ratio of the weighted CIP gathers Gt*(x, h) over the CIP gathers G(x, h) to get CIP gathers of attenuated traveltime t*(x, h). The CIP gathers of attenuated traveltime t*(x, h) may be used to perform seismic tomography to generate an attenuation (Q) model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yonghe J. Sun, Chunling Wu, Mark Chengliang Fan
  • Publication number: 20230137100
    Abstract: A method is described for seismic imaging improved by an estimation of attenuation including receiving a pre-migration seismic dataset D(s, r; t) representative of a subsurface volume of interest wherein s indicates source location, r indicates receiver location, and t is the recorded travel time; calculating a pre-migration attenuated travel time t*(s, r; t); computing a time derivative of the pre-migration attenuated travel time wherein 1/Q(s, r; t)=?t*(s, r; t)/?t; performing a first migration on D(s,r;t) to generate common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h) wherein x is subsurface image point and h is angle or offset; performing a second migration on D(s, r; t)*1/Q(s, r; t) to generate weighted common image point (CIP) gathers G1/Q(x, h); and calculating a conditioned ratio of the weighted CIP gathers G1/Q(x, h) over the CIP gathers G(x, h) to get CIP gathers of 1/Q(x, h) is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yonghe J. Sun, Chunling Wu, Mark Chengliang Fan
  • Patent number: 11187071
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating reservoir productivity as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. The systems and methods may: obtain subsurface data and well data corresponding to a subsurface volume of interest; obtain a parameter model; use the subsurface data and the well data to generate multiple production parameter maps; apply the parameter model to the multiple production parameter maps to generate refined production parameter values; generate multiple refined production parameter graphs; display the multiple refined production parameter graphs; generate one or more user input options; receive a defined well design and the one or more user input options selected by a user to generate limited production parameter values; generate a representation of estimated reservoir productivity as a function of position in the subsurface volume of interest using the defined well design and visual effects; and display the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Leonard Lin Zhang, Chaoshun Hu, Chunling Wu
  • Publication number: 20200018149
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for detecting a given subsurface event in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a subsurface fiber optic data set; receive a sensor data set using one or more sensors; constrain the subsurface fiber optic data set based on a given parameter value of a given parameter within a certain range to generate a constrained subsurface fiber optic data set; use sets of models to refine the constrained subsurface fiber optic data set to generate a refined subsurface fiber optic data set; estimate an event location of the given subsurface event based on the refined subsurface fiber optic data set; and estimate an origin time based on the event location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Leonard Lin Zhang, Chaoshun Hu, Chunling Wu