Patents by Inventor ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ HERRERA

ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ HERRERA 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: 11402540
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media, of which the method includes calculating strains, stresses, or both resulting from pressure changes in a subterranean volume using a geomechanical model, determining one or more local correlations between pressure changes and changes in permeability, porosity, or both in the subterranean volume using the calculated strains and stresses, generating one or more compaction tables for the subterranean volume using the local correlations, calculating pressure changes in the subterranean volume by simulating fluid flow in the subterranean volume using a reservoir model, and modifying the reservoir model using the one or more compaction tables and the calculated pressure changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Adrian Rodriguez Herrera
  • Patent number: 11261729
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a property of a tubular are described. Measurement data of cross-sectional shapes of the tubular at a plurality of depth positions is provided. A three-dimensional mesh representing the tubular based on the cross-sectional shapes is generated. A stress simulation using the three-dimensional mesh to provide an integrity assessment of the tubular is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Ram Sunder Kalyanraman, Karsten Fischer, James Minton, Francisco Jose Gomez, Assef Mohamad Hussein, Saad Kisra
  • Patent number: 10920552
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Piyush Pankaj, Hitoshi Onda, Sumant Kamat
  • Patent number: 10920538
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures. The method involves generating fracture parameters including a hydraulic fracture network based on wellsite data including a mechanical earth model, generating reservoir parameters including a reservoir grid based on the wellsite data and the generated fracture wellsite parameters, forming a finite element grid from the fracture and reservoir parameters by coupling the hydraulic fracture network to the reservoir grid, generating integrated geomechanical parameters including estimated microseismic events based on the finite element grid, and performing fracture operations and production operations based on the integrated geomechanical parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Nikolaos Koutsabeloulis, Piyush Pankaj, Hitoshi Onda, Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro
  • Publication number: 20200378246
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a property of a tubular are described. Measurement data of cross-sectional shapes of the tubular at a plurality of depth positions is provided. A three-dimensional mesh representing the tubular based on the cross-sectional shapes is generated. A stress simulation using the three-dimensional mesh to provide an integrity assessment of the tubular is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Ram Sunder Kalyanraman, Karsten Fischer, James Minton, Francisco Jose Gomez, Assef Mohamad Hussein, Saad Kisra
  • Patent number: 10788604
    Abstract: A method can include receiving mechanical information of a geologic environment and location information of natural fractures of the geologic environment; using a model of the geologic environment, calculating at least strain associated with hydraulic fracturing in the geologic environment; calculating at least microseismicity event locations based at least in part on the calculated strain; calibrating the model based at least in part on the calculated microseismicity event locations and based at least in part on measured microseismicity information associated with the geologic environment to provide a calibrated model; and, using the calibrated model, determining an increase in reactivated fracture volume associated with hydraulic fracturing in the geologic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Fabian Krzikalla, Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera, Andres Alfonso Pena Olarte, James Minton
  • Patent number: 10656295
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more subsurface stress models. The method may include receiving seismic data. A plurality of first geomechanical property models may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. A second geomechanical property model may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. The second geomechanical property model may have a lower resolution than the first geomechanical property models. A stress model, a strain model, or a combination thereof may be generated based on the second geomechanical property model. One or more subsurface stress models may be generated based on the stress model, the strain model, or the combination thereof and the first geomechanical property models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera, Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Jorg V. Herwanger, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Tone Trudeng, Jalal Khazanehdari
  • Publication number: 20200096671
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media, of which the method includes calculating strains, stresses, or both resulting from pressure changes in a subterranean volume using a geomechanical model, determining one or more local correlations between pressure changes and changes in permeability, porosity, or both in the subterranean volume using the calculated strains and stresses, generating one or more compaction tables for the subterranean volume using the local correlations, calculating pressure changes in the subterranean volume by simulating fluid flow in the subterranean volume using a reservoir model, and modifying the reservoir model using the one or more compaction tables and the calculated pressure changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Adrian Rodriguez Herrera
  • Publication number: 20180355707
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Adrian RODRIGUEZ HERRERA, Piyush PANKAJ, Hitoshi ONDA, Sumant KAMAT
  • Publication number: 20180230784
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures. The method involves generating fracture parameters including a hydraulic fracture network based on wellsite data including a mechanical earth model, generating reservoir parameters including a reservoir grid based on the wellsite data and the generated fracture wellsite parameters, forming a finite element grid from the fracture and reservoir parameters by coupling the hydraulic fracture network to the reservoir grid, generating integrated geomechanical parameters including estimated microseismic events based on the finite element grid, and performing fracture operations and production operations based on the integrated geomechanical parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Adrian RODRIGUEZ HERRERA, Nikolaos KOUTSABELOULIS, Piyush PANKAJ, Hitoshi ONDA, Xavier GARCIA-TEIJEIRO
  • Patent number: 9581020
    Abstract: A downhole tool is conveyed within a borehole extending into a subterranean formation. A void is created in a sidewall of the borehole by extending a rotating member from the downhole tool into the sidewall. A portion of the sidewall surrounding the void is mechanically compressed, and the viscosity of hydrocarbons in the subterranean formation proximate the void is reduced by injecting a fluid from the downhole tool into the formation via the void. Fluid comprising the reduced viscosity hydrocarbons and the injected fluid may then be drawn from the subterranean formation into the downhole tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John E. Edwards, Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Morten Kristensen, Tobias Judd, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Oliver Clinton Mullins
  • Publication number: 20150112656
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more subsurface stress models. The method may include receiving seismic data. A plurality of first geomechanical property models may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. A second geomechanical property model may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. The second geomechanical property model may have a lower resolution than the first geomechanical property models. A stress model, a strain model, or a combination thereof may be generated based on the second geomechanical property model. One or more subsurface stress models may be generated based on the stress model, the strain model, or the combination thereof and the first geomechanical property models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera, Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Jorg V. Herwanger, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Tone Trudeng, Jalal Khazanehdari
  • Publication number: 20140353479
    Abstract: A downhole tool is conveyed within a borehole extending into a subterranean formation. A void is created in a sidewall of the borehole by extending a rotating member from the downhole tool into the sidewall. A portion of the sidewall surrounding the void is mechanically compressed, and the viscosity of hydrocarbons in the subterranean formation proximate the void is reduced by injecting a fluid from the downhole tool into the formation via the void. Fluid comprising the reduced viscosity hydrocarbons and the injected fluid may then be drawn from the subterranean formation into the downhole tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: John E. Edwards, Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Morten Kristensen, Tobias Judd, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Oliver Clinton Mullins
  • Publication number: 20120203525
    Abstract: A method for three-dimensional modeling of parameters for oilfield drilling. The method includes generating a three-dimensional model of an underground geological region, receiving a starting point for the oilfield drilling, calculating, using the three-dimensional model and an objective function, a drilling direction from the starting point, calculating, using the three-dimensional model, drilling densities for drilling from the starting point, and presenting the drilling direction and the drilling densities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ HERRERA, NIKOLAOS CONSTANTINOS KOUTSABELOULIS