Patents by Inventor Steven Paul Crockett

Steven Paul Crockett 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).

  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE AND OPTIMIZE RESERVOIR SIMULATOR PERFORMANCE IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20210019189
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for allocating resources for executing a simulation. These include receiving a simulation for execution, calculating an initial runtime of an initial time step of the simulation, determining a total runtime of the simulation based on the initial runtime, selecting a runtime model based on the initial time step, total runtime, or a parameter of the simulation, identifying, based on the selected runtime model, an allocation of a resource providing an increase in runtime speed, allocating the identified resource, and executing the simulation using the allocated resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erdinc EKER, Qinghua WANG, Travis St. George RAMSAY, Steven Paul CROCKETT
  • Automated fracture planning methods for multi-well fields
    Patent number: 10570704
    Abstract: A method in accordance with some embodiments comprises receiving input parameters specifying fracturing requirements, electronically accessing formation data associated with a target formation, and using a computer processor to dynamically generate a fracturing plan for at least one of a plurality of boreholes in the target formation. The plan includes potential fracture locations and lengths that account for existing or planned fracture locations along others of the plurality of boreholes and that further account for the received input parameters and the accessed formation data. The method also comprises fracturing the target formation along the plurality of boreholes in accordance with the fracturing plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, DeWayne Edward Pratt, Steven Paul Crockett
  • System, method and computer program product for determining placement of perforation intervals using facies, fluid boundaries, geobodies and dynamic fluid properties
    Patent number: 10495782
    Abstract: A system and method utilizing one or more perforation filters to determine the location of perforation intervals along a well trace within a reservoir model. The filters may define the location of the perforation intervals based upon, for example, rock property, facies, fluid boundary, geobody, or dynamic fluid property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Alain Dupuy, Travis St. George Ramsay, Steven Paul Crockett
  • AUTOMATED FRACTURE PLANNING METHODS FOR MULTI-WELL FIELDS
    Publication number: 20170284175
    Abstract: A method in accordance with some embodiments comprises receiving input parameters specifying fracturing requirements, electronically accessing formation data associated with a target formation, and using a computer processor to dynamically generate a fracturing plan for at least one of a plurality of boreholes in the target formation. The plan includes potential fracture locations and lengths that account for existing or planned fracture locations along others of the plurality of boreholes and that further account for the received input parameters and the accessed formation data. The method also comprises fracturing the target formation along the plurality of boreholes in accordance with the fracturing plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Daniel Colvin, DeWayne Edward Pratt, Steven Paul Crockett
  • System, Method and Computer Program Product For Determining Placement of Perforation Intervals Using Facies, Fluid Boundaries, Geobodies and Dynamic Fluid Properties
    Publication number: 20150276978
    Abstract: A system and method utilizing one or more perforation filters to determine the location of perforation intervals along a well trace within a reservoir model. The filters may define the location of the perforation intervals based upon, for example, rock property, facies, fluid boundary, geobody, or dynamic fluid property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Alain Dupuy, Travis St. George Ramsay, Steven Paul Crockett