Patents by Inventor Rafael March Castaneda Neto

Rafael March Castaneda Neto 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: 11746623
    Abstract: A method is provided. Cells of a digital model of a formation are classified corresponding with one or more classes based on minerals and/or pore sizes. Wettability of the formation in the digital model is calibrated based on imbibition and/or drainage curves from physical experimentation for a rock sample and the one or more classes of the cells of the digital model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Santiago Gabriel Drexler, Rafael March Castaneda Neto, Xiaobo Nie, Jonas Toelke, Milena Ferreira De Siqueira Lima
  • Publication number: 20230243993
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach, or workflow, that extrapolates a segmentation carried out on a formation image into the labelling of fractures. The workflow can be applied to 2D and 3D images, which can be generated by different imaging technologies. Advantageously, one or more steps of the workflow can be performed automatically. An example of the workflow includes: (1) distinguishing fractures identified in a formation image from a background of the formation image by applying an entropy filter, wherein the formation image has elements that are defined as either fracture elements or non-fracture elements and entropy values for the elements are generated by the applying of the entropy filter, and (2) identifying the fracture elements that correspond to the fractures by solving a diffusion equation, wherein the entropy values are used as a diffusivity field for solving the diffusing equation and the fracture elements are used as a source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Rafael March Castaneda Neto, Naum Moiseyevic Derzhi, Jonas Toelke
  • Publication number: 20230235649
    Abstract: A method is provided. Cells of a digital model of a formation are classified corresponding with one or more classes based on minerals and/or pore sizes. Wettability of the formation in the digital model is calibrated based on imbibition and/or drainage curves from physical experimentation for a rock sample and the one or more classes of the cells of the digital model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Santiago Gabriel DREXLER, Rafael March CASTANEDA NETO, Xiaobo NIE, Jonas TOELKE, Milena FERREIRA DE SIQUEIRA LIMA
  • Publication number: 20230228187
    Abstract: A method includes imaging, at an imaging resolution, a core of a subsurface formation to create a core image and iteratively performing the following operations until a defined feature of a rock of the subsurface formation exceeds a viewable image feature threshold: extracting a number of subsamples from the core for a first iteration and from each of the number of subsamples previously extracted for a subsequent iteration; increasing the imaging resolution; and imaging each subsample. The method includes performing the following operations for the subsamples last extracted: determining at least one formation property characteristic; determining a guiding rock property for each voxel of the core image and the number of subsample images; and determining a subsample that is a shortest distance to the voxel based on the number of guiding rock properties; and mapping, for each voxel, the at least one formation property characteristic that is the shortest distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Rafael March Castaneda Neto, Santiago Gabriel Drexler, Gabriela Alexandra Davalos, Naum Moiseyevich Derzhi, Jonas Toelke, Milena Ferreria de Siqueira Lima