Patents by Inventor Gustavo Carvajal
Gustavo Carvajal 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).
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Patent number: 9157319Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for performing stratigraphic modeling using production data density profiles. At least some illustrative embodiments include a production logging tool data processing method that includes measuring one or more characteristics of a formation within a borehole, of fluids within the formation or of fluids within the borehole, calculating a density profile of each of the one or more characteristics, and defining a boundary between two reservoir simulation cells based at least in part upon the density profile. The method further includes performing a simulation of a production field including the borehole using said simulation cells and presenting the simulation results to a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey Marc Yarus, Marko Maucec, Gustavo Carvajal, Genbao Shi, Richard L Chambers
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Patent number: 9031823Abstract: Systems and methods for subsurface secondary and/or tertiary oil recovery optimization based on either a short term, medium term or long term optimization analysis of selected zones, wells, patterns/clusters and/or fields.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Priyesh Ranjan, Sheldon Burt Gorell, Amit Kumar, Alvin Stanley Cullick, Gustavo Carvajal, Karelis Alejandra Urrutia, Hasnain Khan, Luigi Saputelli, Hatem Nasr
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Publication number: 20150051892Abstract: Predicting future hydrocarbon production. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: reading data regarding hydrocarbon production from a hydrocarbon producing field; producing at least one value indicative of future hydrocarbon production based on a data model and the data regarding hydrocarbon production; displaying, on a display device of a computer system, an indication of historic data regarding hydrocarbon production; and displaying, on the display device, an indication of the at least one value indicative of future hydrocarbon production.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Gustavo A. Carvajal, Alvin S. Cullick, Hatem Nasr, Douglas W. Johnson
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Patent number: 8855988Abstract: Determining viable hydraulic fracture scenarios. At least some of the illustrative embodiments include: executing a fracture planning program, and determining a set of schedules from the fracture planning program, each schedule comprising a volume of fracture fluid, amount of proppant, and flow rate of the fracture fluid; providing each schedule of the set of schedules to a stress analysis program, executing the stress analysis program, and determining a set of indications from the stress analysis program, each indication indicative of whether a respect schedule exceeds engineering limits of a tubing string; and providing at least some of the schedules to a fracture simulation program, executing the fracture simulation program, and determining a set of fracture geometries from the fracture simulation program, each fracture geometry corresponding to a respective schedule.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Marshal A. Strobel, Gustavo Carvajal, Michael Szatny
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Publication number: 20140236681Abstract: Systems and methods for subsurface secondary and/or tertiary oil recovery optimization based on either a short term, medium term or long term optimization analysis of selected zones, wells, patterns/clusters and/or fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Priyesh Ranjan, Burt Gorell Sheldon, Amit Kumar, Alvin Stanley Cullick, Gustavo A. Carvajal, Karelis Alejandra Urrutia, Hasnain Khan, Luigi Alfonso Saputelli, Hatem Nasr
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Publication number: 20140229151Abstract: Systems and methods for subsurface secondary and/or tertiary oil recovery optimization based on either a short term, medium term or long term optimization analysis of selected zones, wells, patterns/clusters and/or fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Priyesh Ranjan, Burt Gorell Sheldon, Amit Kumar, Alvin Stanley Cullick, Gustavo A. Carvajal, Karelis Alejandra Urrutia, Hasnain Khan, Luigi Alfonso Saputelli, Hatem Nasr
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Publication number: 20140114577Abstract: Selecting hydrocarbon wells for well testing. The selecting may include identifying hydrocarbon wells whose last well test took place prior to a predetermined date; dentifying hydrocarbon wells with a parameter that exceeds a predetermined threshold; and selecting a predetermined number of hydrocarbon wells from the wells identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Carlos M. LopezGarcia, Alvin S. Cullick, Giuseppe Moricca, Gustavo A. Carvajal, Jose A. Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20140074447Abstract: Displaying a graphical representation of hydrocarbon production parameters. At least some of the various embodiments are methods including: reading historical values of a production parameter of a hydrocarbon well; calculating a plurality of deviation values with respect to a respective plurality of planned values regarding the production parameter; displaying, on a display device of a computer system, an overhead view of a location of the hydrocarbon well within a hydrocarbon field; and displaying, on the display device proximate the location, a graphical image that depicts each of the plurality of deviation values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Carlos M. LopezGarcia, Giuseppe Moricca, Gustavo A. Carvajal, Miguel A. Villamizar
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Publication number: 20140039860Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for monitoring and diagnosing reservoirs. At least some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes collecting measured near-wellbore data representative of conditions at or near wells within the reservoir (e.g., oil and gas wells), storing the measured near-wellbore data in one or more databases and graphically presenting to a user simulated interwell data generated by a reservoir simulation based at least in part on the measured near-wellbore data. The method further includes graphically overlaying at least some of the measured near-wellbore data over the simulated interwell data and graphically presenting to the user one or more production indicators calculated based at least in part on the simulated interwell data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Gustavo CARVAJAL, Dhruv VASHISTH, Feng Wang, Alvin S. CULLICK, Nurul F. MD ADNAN
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Publication number: 20140039793Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring, diagnosing and optimizing operation of a gas lift (GL) system, at least some of which include a method that includes collecting measured data representative of the GL system's state, storing the measured data, comparing the measured data to a well model's calculated data for the well and identifying likely conditions of the GL system based on mismatches between the measured data and the calculated data. The method further includes updating the model to reflect the likely conditions and selected corrections of the likely conditions, generating GL system performance curves using the updated model and presenting to a user actions recommended to achieve a GL system performance consistent with a GL system operating point on at least one of the GL system performance curves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Maiquel Manuel QUERALES, Miguel VILLAMIZAR, Gustavo CARVAJAL, Rama Krishna VELLANKI, Giuseppe MORICCA, Alvin Stanley CULLICK, Jose RODRIGUEZ
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Publication number: 20140039859Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for performing multi-level reservoir history matching. At least some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes generating a first history-matched model using at least one updated model parameter derived from one or more existing model parameters, generating a set of second history-matched models by applying a probabilistic inversion to the first history-matched model, and deriving a set of third history-matched models from the set of second history-matched models. The method further includes generating dynamic simulation realization sets using each of the set of third history-matched models, ranking each of the set of third history-matched models based at least in part on the dynamic simulation realization sets, and presenting a production forecast to a user based on the highest ranked third history-matched models.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Marko MAUCEC, Gustavo CARVAJAL, Seyed M. MIRZADEH, Ajay Pratap SINGH, Hasnain A. KHAN, Luigi A. SAPUTELLI
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Publication number: 20140039836Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for monitoring, diagnosing and optimizing operation of an electric submersible pump (ESP). At least some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes collecting measured data representative of a state of an ESP within a well or of well conditions and storing the measured data, matching a nodal analysis model of the well to the well by matching one or more modeled values to corresponding measured data, and identifying one or more likely conditions of the ESP based at least in part on data generated by a matched model. The method further includes updating the matched model to reflect a selected correction of one of the likely conditions identified, generating ESP performance curves using the updated model, and presenting to a user an action recommended to achieve an ESP performance consistent with an ESP operating point selected from one of the ESP performance curves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Giuseppe Moricca, Maiquel Querales, Joydeep Dhar, Gustavo Carvajal, Alvin S. Cullick, Rama K. Vellanki, Miguel Villamizar, Jose Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20140032118Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for performing stratigraphic modeling using production data density profiles. At least some illustrative embodiments include a production logging tool data processing method that includes measuring one or more characteristics of a formation within a borehole, of fluids within the formation or of fluids within the borehole, calculating a density profile of each of the one or more characteristics, and defining a boundary between two reservoir simulation cells based at least in part upon the density profile. The method further includes performing a simulation of a production field including the borehole using said simulation cells and presenting the simulation results to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey M. YARUS, Marko MAUCEC, Gustavo CARVAJAL, Genbao SHI, Richard L. CHAMBERS
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Publication number: 20140006111Abstract: Systems and methods for subsurface secondary and/or tertiary oil recovery optimization based on either a short term, medium term or long term optimization analysis of selected zones, wells, patterns/clusters and/or fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Ranjan Priyesh, Burt Gorell Sheldon, Amit Kumar, Alvin Stanley Cullick, Gustavo Carvajal, Karelis Alejandra Urrutia, Hasnain Khan, Luigi Saputelli, Hatem Nasr
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Publication number: 20130304444Abstract: Determining viable hydraulic fracture scenarios. At least some of the illustrative embodiments include: executing a fracture planning program, and determining a set of schedules from the fracture planning program, each schedule comprising a volume of fracture fluid, amount of proppant, and flow rate of the fracture fluid; providing each schedule of the set of schedules to a stress analysis program, executing the stress analysis program, and determining a set of indications from the stress analysis program, each indication indicative of whether a respect schedule exceeds engineering limits of a tubing string; and providing at least some of the schedules to a fracture simulation program, executing the fracture simulation program, and determining a set of fracture geometries from the fracture simulation program, each fracture geometry corresponding to a respective schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Marshal A. Strobel, Gustavo Carvajal, Michael Szatny
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Patent number: 7552842Abstract: A trash bag dispenser for use with a roll of trash bag material, comprising a parallelepiped frame having a back, two spaced apart sides, and a bottom, a v-notch in a top of each side for removably receiving a support rod holding a roll of trash bag material, a horizontal support shelf disposed below the v-notches for supporting material unrolled from the material roll, a guide rail disposed horizontally above the support shelf, the rail slideably receiving a utility knife pocket removably holding a utility knife for sliding across and cutting the bag material to a desired length.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Inventor: Gustavo Carvajal