Patents by Inventor Scott Trevor Raphael
Scott Trevor Raphael 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: 9426243Abstract: A method for remote collaboration includes receiving posting content from a first employee of a company. The posting content includes a multitude of key terms. The method further includes generating a first employee posting using the posting content, extracting the multitude of key terms from the posting content, matching one of the plurality of key terms to a key term label, storing the key term label in the first employee posting, and selecting a company channel corresponding to the key terms label. The method further includes identifying a subscriber of the company channel, where the subscriber is a second employee of the company, and presenting the first employee posting content to the subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Stephen Whitley, Floyd Louis Broussard, III, Scott Trevor Raphael, Patrick Dineen, Horacio Ricardo Bouzas, Cyril Laroche-Py, Chad Brockman, Vignesh Venkataraman, Brandon David Plost
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Publication number: 20150339411Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product automatically generate a surface network for an oilfield production system, e.g., as a new surface network or as an addition to an existing surface network. Candidate surface networks are generated from control vectors proposed by an optimization engine to optimize based upon an objective function that is based at least upon one or more geographical cost functions and one or more boundary conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Scott Trevor Raphael, Benoit Couet, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid, Peter Gerhard Tilke
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Patent number: 8818777Abstract: The invention relates to a system for modeling an oilfield, which has process facilities and wellsite operatively connected, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir. The system includes multiple wellsite simulators, each modeling a portion of the wellsite, at least one non-wellsite simulator, each modeling a portion of a non-wellsite region of the oilfield; and at least one coupling positioned among the wellsite simulators and the non-wellsite simulator. The coupling selectively links the wellsite simulators and the non-wellsite simulator according to a pre-defined configuration for selective communication.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Andrew John Howell, Scott Trevor Raphael, Richard Ian Torrens
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Patent number: 8775141Abstract: The invention relates to a method of simulating operations of an oilfield, which has process facilities and wellsite operatively connected, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir. The method steps include selecting simulators for modeling the oilfield with at least one of the simulators having functionality to model fluid injection, selectively coupling each of the simulators according to a predefined configuration, and modeling an injection operation of the oilfield by selectively communicating between the simulators.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Scott Trevor Raphael
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Publication number: 20140189011Abstract: A method for remote collaboration includes receiving posting content from a first employee of a company. The posting content includes a multitude of key terms. The method further includes generating a first employee posting using the posting content, extracting the multitude of key terms from the posting content, matching one of the plurality of key terms to a key term label, storing the key term label in the first employee posting, and selecting a company channel corresponding to the key terms label. The method further includes identifying a subscriber of the company channel, where the subscriber is a second employee of the company, and presenting the first employee posting content to the subscriber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Stephen Whitley, Floyd Louis Broussard, III, Scott Trevor Raphael, Patrick Dineen, Horacio Ricardo Bouzas, Cyril Laroche-Py, Chad Brockman, Vignesh Venkataraman, Brandon David Plost
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Patent number: 8352227Abstract: A method for performing operations of an oilfield is described. The method involves selectively coupling oilfield simulators according to a predefined configuration, each oilfield simulator modeling at least a portion of the oilfield, a first oilfield simulator receives an oilfield control parameter as an input, identifying an uncertainty parameter associated with probable values each corresponding to a weighted probability, a second oilfield simulator receives the uncertainty parameter as an input, modeling the operations of the oilfield to generate an estimated performance by selectively communicating between the oilfield simulators, the operations of the oilfield are modeled with a predetermined value of the oilfield control parameter and at least one of the probable values of the uncertainty parameter; and identifying an optimal value of the oilfield control parameter based on the estimated performance.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Hans Eric Klumpen, Scott Trevor Raphael, Richard Ian Torrens, Gustavo Nunez, William J. Bailey, Benoit Couet
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Publication number: 20100318337Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for facilitating sequestration of naturally occurring or anthropogenic carbon dioxide. The methods, systems and apparatuses of the present invention include a software interface for facilitating an exchange of data among associated simulators which simulate various steps of the carbon sequestration process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: William J. Bailey, Benoit Couet, Nadege Hopman, Laurent Jammes, Hans Eric Klumpen, Gustavo Nunez, Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Scott Trevor Raphael, Richard Torrens, Sandeep Verma
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Publication number: 20090012765Abstract: The invention relates to a method of simulating operations of an oilfield, which has process facilities and wellsite operatively connected, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir. The method steps include selecting simulators for modeling the oilfield with at least one of the simulators having functionality to model fluid injection, selectively coupling each of the simulators according to a predefined configuration, and modeling an injection operation of the oilfield by selectively communicating between the simulators.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Scott Trevor Raphael
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Publication number: 20080133194Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performing operations of an oilfield having at least one process facilities and at least one wellsite operatively connected thereto, each at least one wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from or injecting fluid to an underground reservoir therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hans Eric Klumpen, Scott Trevor Raphael, Richard Ian Torrens, Gustavo Nunez, William J. Bailey, Benoit Couet
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Publication number: 20080103743Abstract: The invention relates to a system for modeling an oilfield, which has process facilities and wellsite operatively connected, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir. The system includes multiple wellsite simulators, each modeling a portion of the wellsite, at least one non-wellsite simulator, each modeling a portion of a non-wellsite region of the oilfield; and at least one coupling positioned among the wellsite simulators and the non-wellsite simulator. The coupling selectively links the wellsite simulators and the non-wellsite simulator according to a pre-defined configuration for selective communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew John Howell, Scott Trevor Raphael, Richard Ian Torrens