Patents by Inventor Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla

Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla 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: 11320552
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations. According to the methods, received microseismic data is processed to obtain a plurality of data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a predetermined time interval. For each data panel, trigger values are calculated for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system. At least one data panel is selected as a triggered data panel that satisfies predetermined triggering criteria. A value is calculated for each of at least two event attributes of a plurality of event attributes of the event. An event is classified into at least one event category of a plurality of event categories based on the event score. Related non-transitory computer usable mediums are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard J. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen, Xinlong Liu
  • Patent number: 11125077
    Abstract: A method for detecting wellbore inflows can include detecting a plurality of temperature values within a wellbore, wherein each temperature value corresponds to a different depth within the wellbore and the temperature values are detected with a distributed temperature measuring technique. The method can also include calculating a plurality of proxy temperatures, wherein each proxy temperature corresponds to one of the temperature values and a reference temperature value. The method can also include calculating a continuous wavelet transform based on the plurality of proxy temperatures. Additionally, the method can include identifying a wellbore inflow based on a combination of the continuous wavelet transform and a wellbore schematic, and generating an alert indicating a location of the wellbore inflow within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Jerome Lewandowski, Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Badrinarayanan Velamur Asokan
  • Patent number: 11060395
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are methods and systems related to processes for injection wells generally utilized in the oil and gas industry. More particularly, disclosed herein are methods and systems related to improving the accuracy of profiling and determining individual cumulative fluid injection profiles for an injection period for multiple zones of an injection well in reservoir systems utilizing conventional warmback models. The methods herein allow for proper modeling and allocation of all injection zones, including zones experiencing a cooldown phenomena during shut-in by transforming the cooldown zonal temperature profiles into temperature profiles which can be utilized in a conventional warmback analysis. These methods are particularly useful in mature reservoir systems where the background reference temperature profile is no longer governed by the geothermal reference temperature profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Badrinarayanan Velamur Asokan, Jerome Lewandowski
  • Patent number: 10921471
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations. According to the methods and systems, received microseismic data is processed to obtain a plurality of data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a predetermined time interval. For each data panel, trigger values are calculated for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system. At least one data panel is selected as a triggered data panel that satisfies predetermined triggering criteria. At least one triggered data panel is selected as a non-trivial data panel that satisfies spectral density criteria. A value is calculated for each of at least two event attributes of a plurality of event attributes of the event. An event score is determined based on the values of the plurality of event attributes. An event is classified into at least one event category of a plurality of event categories based on the event score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard J. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen
  • Publication number: 20200190968
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are methods and systems related to processes for injection wells generally utilized in the oil and gas industry. More particularly, disclosed herein are methods and systems related to improving the accuracy of profiling and determining individual cumulative fluid injection profiles for an injection period for multiple zones of an injection well in reservoir systems utilizing conventional warmback models. The methods herein allow for proper modeling and allocation of all injection zones, including zones experiencing a cooldown phenomena during shut-in by transforming the cooldown zonal temperature profiles into temperature profiles which can be utilized in a conventional warmback analysis. These methods are particularly useful in mature reservoir systems where the background reference temperature profile is no longer governed by the geothermal reference temperature profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Badrinarayana Velamur Asokan, Jerome Lewandowski
  • Publication number: 20200024942
    Abstract: A method for detecting wellbore inflows can include detecting a plurality of temperature values within a wellbore, wherein each temperature value corresponds to a different depth within the wellbore and the temperature values are detected with a distributed temperature measuring technique. The method can also include calculating a plurality of proxy temperatures, wherein each proxy temperature corresponds to one of the temperature values and a reference temperature value. The method can also include calculating a continuous wavelet transform based on the plurality of proxy temperatures. Additionally, the method can include identifying a wellbore inflow based on a combination of the continuous wavelet transform and a wellbore schematic, and generating an alert indicating a location of the wellbore inflow within the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jerome Lewandowski, Badrinarayanan Velamur Asokan
  • Publication number: 20190324166
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations by receiving microseismic data; processing the data to obtain data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a time interval; determining, with a neural network analysis, whether any of the data panels includes a noise event or a non-noise event; calculating, for each data panel including a non-noise event, trigger values for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system; selecting, as a triggered data panel, at least one data panel that satisfies triggering criteria; selecting, as a non-trivial data panel, at least one triggered data panel that satisfies spectral density criteria; calculating a value for each of at least two event attributes of the event; determining an event score based on the event attribute values; and classifying the event into at least one event category based on the event score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan LOLLA, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard J. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen, Xinlong Liu
  • Publication number: 20190302291
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations by receiving microseismic data; processing the microseismic data to obtain a plurality of data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a predetermined time interval; calculating, for each data panel, trigger values for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system; selecting, as a triggered data panel, at least one data panel that satisfies predetermined triggering criteria; selecting, as a non-trivial data panel, at least one triggered data panel that satisfies spectral density criteria; calculating a value for each of at least two event attributes of a plurality of event attributes of the event; determining an event score based on the values of the plurality of event attributes; and classifying the event into at least one event category of a plurality of event categories based on the event score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard j. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen