Patents by Inventor Ersan Turkoglu

Ersan Turkoglu 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).

  • Publication number: 20230288592
    Abstract: A system and methods for determining a refined seismic model of a subterranean region are disclosed. The method includes obtaining an observed seismic dataset and a current seismic model for the subterranean region and training a machine learning (ML) network using seismic training models and corresponding seismic training datasets and predicting, using the trained ML network, a predicted seismic model from the observed seismic dataset. The method further includes determining a simulated seismic dataset from the current seismic model and a seismic wavelet, a data penalty function based on a difference between the observed and the simulated seismic datasets and a model penalty function from the difference between the current the predicted seismic models. The method still further includes determining the refined seismic model based on an extremum of a composite penalty function based on a weighted sum of the data penalty function and the model penalty function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Diego Rovetta, Weichang Li, Ersan Turkoglu
  • Publication number: 20230289499
    Abstract: A system and methods for determining an updated geophysical model of a subterranean region of interest are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a preprocessed observed geophysical dataset based, at least in part, on an observed geophysical dataset of the subterranean region of interest, and forming a training dataset composed of a plurality of geophysical training models and corresponding simulated geophysical training datasets. The method further includes iteratively determining a simulated geophysical dataset from a current geophysical model, determining a data loss function between the preprocessed observed geophysical dataset and the simulated geophysical dataset, training a machine learning (ML) network, using the training dataset, to predict a predicted geophysical model and determining a model loss function between the current and predicted geophysical models. The method still further includes updating the current geophysical model based on an inversion using the data loss and model loss functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Aramco Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Anton Egorov, Ersan Turkoglu
  • Publication number: 20230125277
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving for a plurality of common midpoint-offset bins each comprising a respective plurality of seismic traces, respective candidate pilot traces representing the plurality of common midpoint-offset bins; generating, based on the respective candidate pilot traces, a respective plurality of corrected seismic traces for each of the plurality of common midpoint-offset bins; grouping the respective pluralities of corrected seismic traces into a plurality of enhanced virtual shot gathers (eVSGs); generating, based on the plurality of common midpoint-offset bins, a common-midpoint (CMP) velocity model; calibrating the CMP velocity model using uphole velocity data to generate a pseudo-3 dimensional (3D) velocity model; performing, based on the plurality of enhanced virtual shot gathers and the pseudo-3D velocity model, a 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Ersan Turkoglu, Ernesto Sandoval-Curiel, Diego Rovetta, Apostolos Kontakis, Weichang Li
  • Patent number: 10920585
    Abstract: In some implementations, airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data and seismic data for a geographic region including sand dunes are received, and the AEM data identifies apparent resistivity as a function of depth within the sand dunes. An inversion with cross-domain regularization is calculated of the AEM data and the seismic data to generate a velocity-depth model, and the velocity depth model identifies velocity variations within the sand dunes. A seismic image using the velocity-depth model is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Gary W. McNeice, Diego Rovetta, Ersan Turkoglu, Ernesto Sandoval Curiel
  • Patent number: 10845498
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an unmanned aerial vehicle system includes a first loop airframe structure having a transmitter loop antenna and defining a plane, a second loop airframe structure having a receiver loop antenna having a diameter smaller than the transmitter loop antenna and oriented substantially parallel to the plane, a plurality of vertical thrusters configured to provide lift substantially perpendicular to the plane and elevate the system above a ground surface, at least one lateral thruster configured to provide thrust substantially parallel to the plane, a controller affixed configured to control the plurality of vertical thrusters and the lateral thruster, and an electromagnetic sensing system (such as ground-penetrating radar) configured to transmit electromagnetic signals using the transmitter loop antenna and receive secondary electromagnetic signals of secondary eddy currents caused by interactions between the EM signals and undergroun
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Ersan Turkoglu, Gary W. McNeice
  • Publication number: 20200142090
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an unmanned aerial vehicle system includes a first loop airframe structure having a transmitter loop antenna and defining a plane, a second loop airframe structure having a receiver loop antenna having a diameter smaller than the transmitter loop antenna and oriented substantially parallel to the plane, a plurality of vertical thrusters configured to provide lift substantially perpendicular to the plane and elevate the system above a ground surface, at least one lateral thruster configured to provide thrust substantially parallel to the plane, a controller affixed configured to control the plurality of vertical thrusters and the lateral thruster, and an electromagnetic sensing system (such as ground-penetrating radar) configured to transmit electromagnetic signals using the transmitter loop antenna and receive secondary electromagnetic signals of secondary eddy currents caused by interactions between the EM signals and undergroun
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Ersan Turkoglu, Gary W. McNeice
  • Patent number: 10577925
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jesus Manuel Felix Servin, Erika Shoemaker Ellis, Ersan Turkoglu, Howard Khan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10570727
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jesus Manuel Felix Servin, Erika Shoemaker Ellis, Ersan Turkoglu, Howard Khan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10392929
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jesus Manuel Felix Servin, Erika Shoemaker Ellis, Ersan Turkoglu, Howard Khan Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190249546
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: JESUS MANUEL FELIX SERVIN, ERIKA SHOEMAKER ELLIS, ERSAN TURKOGLU, HOWARD KHAN SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20190249545
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: JESUS MANUEL FELIX SERVIN, ERIKA SHOEMAKER ELLIS, ERSAN TURKOGLU, HOWARD KHAN SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20190242246
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: JESUS MANUEL FELIX SERVIN, ERIKA SHOEMAKER ELLIS, ERSAN TURKOGLU, HOWARD KHAN SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20190195067
    Abstract: In some implementations, airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data and seismic data for a geographic region including sand dunes are received, and the AEM data identifies apparent resistivity as a function of depth within the sand dunes. An inversion with cross-domain regularization is calculated of the AEM data and the seismic data to generate a velocity-depth model, and the velocity depth model identifies velocity variations within the sand dunes. A seismic image using the velocity-depth model is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Daniele Colombo, Gary W. McNeice, Diego Rovetta, Ersan Turkoglu, Ernesto Sandoval Curiel