Patents Assigned to BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240125963
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for acquiring seismic data of a four-component ocean bottom node (OBN). The method is implemented by the system, comprising controlling installations of a plurality of ocean bottom submerged buoys and a plurality of four-component OBN seismic data acquisition instruments and sending positioning signals and timing signals to the plurality of ocean bottom submerged buoys through armored opto-electronic composite cables. The method also includes obtaining real-time and uninterrupted water temperature data, pressure data, density data, and salt saturation data along the armored opto-electronic composite cables from the ocean surface to locations of the plurality of ocean bottom submerged buoys, and calculating real-time and three-dimensional data of waters of a whole measurement work area through interpolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, OPTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CHENGDU) LTD.
    Inventors: Liang GOU, Gang YU, Haibo LIU, Zhaohong XU, Ximing WANG, Shujun XIA, Shujie AN, Mengxiong XIAO
  • Publication number: 20240085581
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for full-wave field seismic source based on a gas explosion technology and a method for acquiring seismic data. The device includes a cylindrical explosion-proof metal outer barrel, and four sides of the explosion-proof metal outer barrel are fixedly connected to four high-strength steel plates. The device also includes a cylindrical explosion-proof metal gas explosion inner barrel and pipelines for injecting high-pressure air and high-pressure gas into the gas explosion inner barrel. A center of the gas explosion inner barrel is installed with an electronic ignition gun, which is connected to a GPS timing module connected to the electronic ignition gun. The device further includes a controller configured to control a seismic source of a gas explosion full-wave field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, OPTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CHENGDU) LTD.
    Inventors: Liang GOU, Gang YU, Maojun YANG, Ximing WANG
  • Publication number: 20230213669
    Abstract: The present invention provides an intelligent geophysical data acquisition system and acquisition method for shale oil and gas optical fiber. A pipe string is arranged in a metal casing, and an external armored optical cable is fixed outside the metal casing; an, internal armored optical cable is fixed outside the pipe string; the external armored optical cable comprises a downhole acoustic sensing optical cable, two multi-mode optical fibers, a strain optical cable and a pressure sensor array, and further comprises horizontal ground acoustic sensing optical cables arranged in the shallow part of the ground according to an orthogonal grid, and artificial seismic source excitation points arranged on the ground according to the orthogonal grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicants: BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, OPTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CHENGDU) LTD
    Inventors: Gang Yu, Xing Liang, Liang Gou, Yunjiang Rao, Ximing Wang, Shujun Xia, Shujie An, Junjun Wu, Yuanzhong Chen, Zengling Ran, Renzhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11493595
    Abstract: A method for evaluating accuracy in positioning a receiver point, which is associated with at least one shot point, and for which a derived position data is obtained, wherein a pair of the receiver point and a respective shot point is associated with a characteristic parameter which includes an offset, a velocity of first arrival wave and a first arrival time, the method comprising: step S10, constructing a residual vector associated with the receiver point and the respective shot point based on the characteristic parameter; step S12, determining a characterization parameter of the derived position data based on the residual vector; and step S14, evaluating accuracy of the derived position data based on the characterization parameter. An apparatus for evaluating accuracy in positioning a receiver point is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haishen Yang, Weiwei Zhao, Lijun Xu, Yongxin Xiao, Kunpeng Hou
  • Patent number: 11125898
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application include acquiring a monitoring region and each observation point therein; partitioning the monitoring region into N layers of grids according to a seismic source positioning accuracy, wherein a side length of a grid cell of an i-th layer of grid is D/2i-1, i=1, . . . N, and D is an initial side length of the grid cell and not more than a double of a distance between the respective observation points; searching all nodes in a first layer of grid to acquire a node satisfying a preset condition therefrom; from i=2, determining and searching nodes satisfying a first preset requirement in the i-th layer of grid, to acquire a node satisfying the preset condition therefrom, until a search in an N-th layer of grid is completed, wherein a node satisfying the preset condition acquired in the N-th layer of grid is a seismic source point location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: China National Petroleum Corporation, BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
    Inventors: Qihu Jin, Congwei Liu, Yanpeng Li, Fei Li, Gang Xu, Fangdong Chu
  • Patent number: 10809401
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for determining overall metrics of seismic geometry repeatability, wherein the method comprises: selecting baseline geometry and monitor geometry; matching shot-receiver pairs of the baseline geometry with shot-receiver pairs of the monitor geometry to obtain multiple matching relationships; calculating overall geometry repeatability of each of the multiple matching relationships according to a predetermined calculation formula for multi-trace geometry repeatability, to obtain overall geometry repeatabilities corresponding to the multiple matching relationships; taking the minimum value among the overall geometry repeatabilities corresponding to the multiple matching relationships as overall repeatability metrics between the monitor geometry and the baseline geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fengshu Dong, Haiyan Quan, Minxue Luo, Chaohong Xu, Xiuyan Xin, Yuehong Jing
  • Patent number: 10436920
    Abstract: A monitoring system for use in seismic instrument arrangement in petroleum exploration, belonging to the technical field of network transmission of seismic instrument arrangement information, comprises a host server and a hand-held terminal device, wherein the host server is configured to be connected to a host machine of a seismic instrument, manipulated by an instrument operator, can extract the seismic instrument arrangement information, classify field arrangement information based on the corresponding setting and transmit the arrangement information by using a 2G/3G network; the hand-held terminal device can receive the field arrangement information transmitted by the host server, by the 2G/3G network, and alarm and remind line inspection personnel to conduct an arrangement check; after completing the inspection task, the line inspection personnel can send inquiry information via the hand-held terminal device to inquire of the instrument operator about the line inspection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: China National Petroleum Corporation, BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
    Inventors: Maojun Yang, Fulong Luo, Guosheng Li, Ying Xia, Lei Huang, Huadong Sun, Weiping Liu, Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 10409251
    Abstract: An automatic inspection and monitoring method based on time domain slotting control, belonging to the technical field where the field personnel can automatically inspect and monitor a field device of a seismic apparatus in the seismic exploration production. A method of extraction and transmission of a seismic apparatus host on the information of a field device is implemented by a master control program, test information about the seismic apparatus host on the field device can be automatically extracted and classified from the seismic apparatus host, and according to a designed push protocol, a protocol encoding is conducted; a data frame block is automatically generated; and then the information is delivered via a broadcasting station; an encoding protocol of information push is designed for avoiding information loss caused by signal instability, etc. during information push. According to the protocol, the state information on the field device is encoded to generate a data frame block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: China National Petroleum Corporation, BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
    Inventors: Huadong Sun, Maojun Yang, Fulong Luo, Guosheng Li, Ying Xia, Lei Huang, Weiping Liu, Liuzheng Zhang, Yuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20190162867
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application include acquiring a monitoring region and each observation point therein; partitioning the monitoring region into N layers of grids according to a seismic source positioning accuracy, wherein a side length of a grid cell of an i-th layer of grid is D/2i-1, i=1, . . . N, and D is an initial side length of the grid cell and not more than a double of a distance between the respective observation points; searching all nodes in a first layer of grid to acquire a node satisfying a preset condition therefrom; from i=2, determining and searching nodes satisfying a first preset requirement in the i-th layer of grid, to acquire a node satisfying the preset condition therefrom, until a search in an N-th layer of grid is completed, wherein a node satisfying the preset condition acquired in the N-th layer of grid is a seismic source point location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicants: China National Petroleum Corporation, BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
    Inventors: Qihu JIN, Congwei LIU, Yanpeng LI, Fei LI, Gang XU, Fangdong CHU
  • Patent number: 10228478
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of searching for an oil-gas reservoir based on TRAP-3D software, including: establishing a three-dimensional lithology and fault data cube of an exploration working area according to three-dimensional seismic data and logging data; dividing the three-dimensional lithology and fault data cube into several depth slices of the same thickness, and performing an individual sand body unit division for each depth slice; sequentially inputting the depth slices of the three-dimensional lithology and fault data cube into the TRAP-3D software for oil-gas reservoir evaluation. The present invention improves the accuracy of three-dimensional trap evaluation, is conducive to precise searching of the oil-gas reservoir, can plot a Sweet-Spot diagram on a plane, and get exhibits oil-gas trap amounts of different depths in a longitudinal direction, and can obtain a total trap amount of the oil gas reservoir in the exploration working area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignees: CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qingzhong Li, Libin Zhang, Xiaomin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9194970
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of poles configuration with four poles inter-combination for marine electromagnetic surveying and acquisition. The method of the present invention adopts six horizontal electric field components with four poles inter-combination. The six horizontal electric field components are respectively constituted from tri-pins grounding electrodes of four poles pairwise. One of the pins of each of the tri-pins grounding electrodes and the pins of the other three tri-pins grounding electrodes mutually constitute the six horizontal electric field components. The data for electromagnetic field over time series are simultaneously recorded. The present invention effectively ensure that the electric field recording with an angle less than 22.5 degree to the activation direction is achieved regardless of the orientation of the acquisition station, and that the worst effective activation signal may reach 76.5% of that under collinear activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhanxiang He
  • Publication number: 20130162257
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of poles configuration with four poles inter-combination for marine electromagnetic surveying and acquisition. The method of the present invention adopts six horizontal electric field components with four poles inter-combination. The six horizontal electric field components are respectively constituted from tri-pins grounding electrodes of four poles pairwise. One of the pins of each of the tri-pins grounding electrodes and the pins of the other three tri-pins grounding electrodes mutually constitute the six horizontal electric field components. The data for electromagnetic field over time series are simultaneously recorded. The present invention effectively ensure that the electric field recording with an angle less than 22.5 degree to the activation direction is achieved regardless of the orientation of the acquisition station, and that the worst effective activation signal may reach 76.5% of that under collinear activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicants: BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhanxiang He
  • Publication number: 20110010098
    Abstract: A method of pre-stack two-dimension-like transformation of three-dimensional seismic record is accomplished by the following steps: acquiring 3D seismic data, and arranging them according to a shot gather; calculating the offsets of all the receiver points from the first receiver line of the first shot; making a straight line (L2?) which connects the shot point (S) and the receiver point (R1) of the smallest offset as the transformed coordinate axis, and making the shot point (S) as the center, drawing circles whose radii are the offsets (offseti) of each receiver point, then rotating each receiver point to the straight line (L2?), thereby accomplishing the two-dimension-like transformation of all the receiver lines of the shot, and getting three-dimensional seismic data graph with high precision; and then making the processing of the noise elimination and static correction on the three-dimensional seismic record using conventional technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicants: CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, BGP INC., CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi Zhan, Bo Zhao, Xixiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 7660204
    Abstract: A data acquisition method of a non-real time transmitting seismic data acquisition system applied in mountainous areas. The format of original record file names is an 8 digit file name representing absolute time together with 3 digit extension names representing the equipment's serial number. The detonating units generate SPS format spreadsheets according to the above file name generation method. SPS format spreadsheets of several detonating units are combined on the basis of the SPS format spreadsheets generated by every detonating unit and then put in a data retrieval unit. The effective file names, which are recorded in the SPS format spreadsheets while detonating units are operating, are based on the former 8 digits. The acquisition unit and the data retrieval unit are connected by network lines, and a data retrieving program will run by the data retrieval unit. This method is exclusive and feasible to manage and search the seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation
    Inventors: Qingzhong Li, Lianqing Chen, Weibing Luo, Bijin Yi, Xiaochun Dang, Xiangrui Xia, Fulong Luo