Patents by Inventor Morteza Sayarpour

Morteza Sayarpour 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: 11047213
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of analyzing at least a first flood operation and a second flood operation. The embodiment includes, for each flood operation: receiving production data and injection data, running capacitance resistance modeling, using the generated response times, the generated interwell connectivities, the received production data, the received injection data, or any combination thereof to generate a proxy of pore volume swept per well pair, and aggregating the generated proxies to generate an estimate of pore volume swept at a well level, at a reservoir level, or both for the flood operation. The embodiment also includes comparing the generated estimate of pore volume swept to determine a change in sweep efficiency at the well level, at the reservoir level, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Nariman Fathi Najafabadi, Lokendra Jain
  • Patent number: 10934811
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method for analyzing a flood operation for a hydrocarbon reservoir having a plurality of zones is provided. The embodiment includes receiving injection profile data (ILT) and injection rates. The embodiment also uses the received injection profile data and injection rates to split each injection well into multiple zonal level injectors. The embodiment also includes running capacitance resistance modeling treating each zonal level injector as a single injector, where running capacitance resistance modeling includes generating interwell connectivities at the zonal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Tiantian Zhang, Carmen C. Hinds
  • Patent number: 10760379
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment includes establishing a dataset of allowed well connections for at least one production well and at least one injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The embodiment includes iteratively modifying the dataset of allowed well connections based on a distance category, a static features category, a dynamic features category, or any combination thereof, where the static features category uses static data of the hydrocarbon reservoir and the dynamic features category uses dynamic data of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The embodiment includes, after iteratively modifying the dataset of allowed well connections, running capacitance resistance modeling using the modified dataset of allowed well connections as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventor: Morteza Sayarpour
  • Patent number: 10718186
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. An embodiment of a computer implemented method of identifying conformance candidates is provided. The embodiment includes, for a first entity: solving an injection entity index to generate an injection entity index value, solving a production entity index to generate a production entity index value, evaluating an operation entity index that represents operation status to generate an operation entity index value, and combining the injection entity index value, the production entity index value, and the operation entity index value to generate a conformance problem index value for the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Lokendra Jain, Carmen C. Hinds, Tiantian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10648291
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of using producer centered polygons to identify at least one infill drilling location in a hydrocarbon reservoir having a plurality of producers and at least one injector is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Tiantian Zhang, Morteza Sayarpour, Maryam Davari, Donna T. Auzenne
  • Patent number: 10619456
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir having heavy oil is provided. The embodiment includes, for a first injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir: receiving injection rate data and production rate data, establishing a plurality of time windows based on breakthrough time of each production well that has broken through until the current date, and running capacitance resistance modeling for each established time window to generate interwell connectivities for each well pair. The embodiment further includes determining a value of injected fluid for the first injection well as a function of time in the future using a continuous function estimated interwell connectivity and an estimated oil-cut value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Tiantian Zhang, Morteza Sayarpour, Omer Izgec
  • Patent number: 10190395
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of determining a value of injected fluid includes, for a first injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir: receiving injection rate data for the first injection well and production rate data for at least one production well communicating with the injection well, running capacitance resistance modeling using the received data to generate an interwell connectivity for each injection well and production well pair, determining a value of injected fluid for each injection well and production well pair using the generated interwell connectivity for the well pair and an oil-cut value for the production well of the pair, and aggregating the generated values of injected fluid per pair to determine a value of injected fluid for the first injection well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Morteza Sayarpour
  • Publication number: 20160177687
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment includes establishing a dataset of allowed well connections for at least one production well and at least one injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The embodiment includes iteratively modifying the dataset of allowed well connections based on a distance category, a static features category, a dynamic features category, or any combination thereof, where the static features category uses static data of the hydrocarbon reservoir and the dynamic features category uses dynamic data of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The embodiment includes, after iteratively modifying the dataset of allowed well connections, running capacitance resistance modeling using the modified dataset of allowed well connections as an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventor: Morteza Sayarpour
  • Publication number: 20160178799
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method for analyzing a flood operation for a hydrocarbon reservoir having a plurality of zones is provided. The embodiment includes receiving injection profile data (ILT) and injection rates. The embodiment also uses the received injection profile data and injection rates to split each injection well into multiple zonal level injectors. The embodiment also includes running capacitance resistance modeling treating each zonal level injector as a single injector, where running capacitance resistance modeling includes generating interwell connectivities at the zonal level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Tiantian Zhang, Carmen C. Hinds
  • Publication number: 20160177688
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. An embodiment of a computer implemented method of identifying conformance candidates is provided. The embodiment includes, for a first entity: solving an injection entity index to generate an injection entity index value, solving a production entity index to generate a production entity index value, evaluating an operation entity index that represents operation status to generate an operation entity index value, and combining the injection entity index value, the production entity index value, and the operation entity index value to generate a conformance problem index value for the first entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Lokendra Jain, Carmen C. Hinds, Tiantian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160177679
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of using producer centered polygons to identify at least one infill drilling location in a hydrocarbon reservoir having a plurality of producers and at least one injector is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Tiantian Zhang, Morteza Sayarpour, Maryam Davari, Donna T. Auzenne
  • Publication number: 20160177689
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir having heavy oil is provided. The embodiment includes, for a first injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir: receiving injection rate data and production rate data, establishing a plurality of time windows based on breakthrough time of each production well that has broken through until the current date, and running capacitance resistance modeling for each established time window to generate interwell connectivities for each well pair. The embodiment further includes determining a value of injected fluid for the first injection well as a function of time in the future using a continuous function estimated interwell connectivity and an estimated oil-cut value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Tiantian Zhang, Morteza Sayarpour, Omer Izgec
  • Publication number: 20160177690
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of analyzing at least a first flood operation and a second flood operation. The embodiment includes, for each flood operation: receiving production data and injection data, running capacitance resistance modeling, using the generated response times, the generated interwell connectivities, the received production data, the received injection data, or any combination thereof to generate a proxy of pore volume swept per well pair, and aggregating the generated proxies to generate an estimate of pore volume swept at a well level, at a reservoir level, or both for the flood operation. The embodiment also includes comparing the generated estimate of pore volume swept to determine a change in sweep efficiency at the well level, at the reservoir level, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Nariman Fathi Najafabadi, Lokendra Jain
  • Publication number: 20160061020
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method of determining a value of injected fluid includes, for a first injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir: receiving injection rate data for the first injection well and production rate data for at least one production well communicating with the injection well, running capacitance resistance modeling using the received data to generate an interwell connectivity for each injection well and production well pair, determining a value of injected fluid for each injection well and production well pair using the generated interwell connectivity for the well pair and an oil-cut value for the production well of the pair, and aggregating the generated values of injected fluid per pair to determine a value of injected fluid for the first injection well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Morteza Sayarpour