Patents by Inventor Agnes Dubois
Agnes Dubois 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: 8639444Abstract: A method for performing chrono-stratigraphic interpretation of a subterranean formation. The method includes obtaining a seismic volume containing stratigraphic features of the subterranean formation deformed by structural events, performing structural restoration of the seismic volume to generate a restored seismic volume by removing deformation due to the structural events, performing a chrono-stratigraphic interpretation based on the restored seismic volume to generate chrono-stratigraphic objects each associated with a respective relative geologic age, and displaying the chrono-stratigraphic objects in a chrono-stratigraphic space according to the respective relative geologic age of each of the stratigraphic objects.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Randolph E. F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Manoj Vallikkat Thachaparambil, Philippe Paul Jacques Marza, Renchu Wu
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Patent number: 8599643Abstract: A method for structural dip removal. The method includes converting a seismic volume to a depth domain, extracting seismic dips from the seismic volume in the depth domain along a borehole trajectory, analyzing a borehole using the seismic dips to obtain structural dip data, and in response to determining that the seismic dips and borehole dips obtained from borehole imagery are consistent, generating a three dimensional (“3D”) structural model using the structural dip data. The method further includes performing a structural restoration using the 3D structural model to obtain depositional geometry data, removing structural dip from the borehole imagery using the 3D structural model to obtain sedimentary dip data, and performing a stratigraphic interpretation using the depositional geometry data and the sedimentary dip data.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Randolph E. F. Pepper, Philippe Paul Jacques Marza, Agnes Dubois
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Patent number: 8515678Abstract: A method for performing chrono-stratigraphic interpretation of a subterranean formation. The method includes obtaining a seismic volume containing stratigraphic features of the subterranean formation deformed by structural events, performing structural restoration of the seismic volume to generate a restored seismic volume by removing deformation due to the structural events, performing a chrono-stratigraphic interpretation based on the restored seismic volume to generate chrono-stratigraphic objects each associated with a respective relative geologic age, and displaying the chrono-stratigraphic objects in a chrono-stratigraphic space according to the respective relative geologic age of each of the stratigraphic objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Randolph E. F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Manoj Vallikkat Thachaparambil, Philippe Paul Jacques Marza, Renchu Wu
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Patent number: 8457940Abstract: A method for modeling a subterranean formation of a field, including receiving a structural model and restoring geological layers thereof to create boundary conditions each associated with a corresponding geological layer, and iteratively modeling each geological layer by alternatively applying a petroleum system model (PSM) and a geomechanical model (GMM) to a first geological layer while exchanging data between the PSM and GMM for convergence prior to applying the PSM and the GMM to a second geological layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Gui Fen Xi, Randolph E. F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Jimmy Klinger
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Interactive structural restoration while interpreting seismic volumes for structure and stratigraphy
Patent number: 8447525Abstract: A method for performing seismic interpretation of a subterranean formation by enabling dual-domain interpretation of seismic features in the present day depth domain and simultaneously in a structurally restored “mapped” seismic domain. Specifically, seismic interpretation is performed on structurally restored seismic volumes while concurrently viewing the interpretation results in the structural domain. This increases the interpretation confidence by improved correlation of structural deformed events to their pre-structurally deformed geometry. The method includes the ability to progressively remove structural deformation from the seismic volume, corresponding to moving back in geologic time. The interpretation can be performed in either domain (present-day structure or structurally restored to a defined geologic event), and the interpretation will be mapped to any other computed geologic age or present structural age.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Randolph E. F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Jimmy Klinger -
INTERACTIVE STRUCTURAL RESTORATION WHILE INTERPRETING SEISMIC VOLUMES FOR STRUCTURE AND STRATIGRAPHY
Publication number: 20120029827Abstract: A method for performing seismic interpretation of a subterranean formation by enabling dual-domain interpretation of seismic features in the present day depth domain and simultaneously in a structurally restored “mapped” seismic domain. Specifically, seismic interpretation is performed on structurally restored seismic volumes while concurrently viewing the interpretation results in the structural domain. This increases the interpretation confidence by improved correlation of structural deformed events to their pre-structurally deformed geometry. The method includes the ability to progressively remove structural deformation from the seismic volume, corresponding to moving back in geologic time. The interpretation can be performed in either domain (present-day structure or structurally restored to a defined geologic event), and the interpretation will be mapped to any other computed geologic age or present structural age.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Randolph E. F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Jimmy Klinger -
Publication number: 20120026832Abstract: A method for structural dip removal. The method includes converting a seismic volume to a depth domain, extracting seismic dips from the seismic volume in the depth domain along a borehole trajectory, analyzing a borehole using the seismic dips to obtain structural dip data, and in response to determining that the seismic dips and borehole dips obtained from borehole imagery are consistent, generating a three dimensional (“3D”) structural model using the structural dip data. The method further includes performing a structural restoration using the 3D structural model to obtain depositional geometry data, removing structural dip from the borehole imagery using the 3D structural model to obtain sedimentary dip data, and performing a stratigraphic interpretation using the depositional geometry data and the sedimentary dip data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Randolph E.F. PEPPER, Philippe Paul Jacques Marza, Agnes Dubois
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Publication number: 20120029895Abstract: A method for modeling a subterranean formation of a field, including receiving a structural model and restoring geological layers thereof to create boundary conditions each associated with a corresponding geological layer, and iteratively modeling each geological layer by alternatively applying a petroleum system model (PSM) and a geomechanical model (GMM) to a first geological layer while exchanging data between the PSM and GMM for convergence prior to applying the PSM and the GMM to a second geological layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Gui Fen Xi, Randolph E. F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Jimmy Klinger
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Publication number: 20120029828Abstract: A method for performing chrono-stratigraphic interpretation of a subterranean formation. The method includes obtaining a seismic volume containing stratigraphic features of the subterranean formation deformed by structural events, performing structural restoration of the seismic volume to generate a restored seismic volume by removing deformation due to the structural events, performing a chrono-stratigraphic interpretation based on the restored seismic volume to generate chrono-stratigraphic objects each associated with a respective relative geologic age, and displaying the chrono-stratigraphic objects in a chrono-stratigraphic space according to the respective relative geologic age of each of the stratigraphic objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Randolph E.F. Pepper, Agnes Dubois, Manoj Vallikkat Thachaparambil, Philippe Paul Jacques Marza, Renchu Wu