Patents by Inventor Chaoshun Hu

Chaoshun Hu 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).

  • Publication number: 20230042577
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating reservoir productivity as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain an initial depth uncertainty model; obtain training depth uncertainty parameter values from the non-transient storage medium; obtain corresponding training depth uncertainty values; generate a trained depth uncertainty model by training the initial depth uncertainty model using the training depth uncertainty parameter values and the corresponding training depth uncertainty values; and store the trained depth uncertainty model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Weihong Fei, Chaoshun Hu, Paige Rene Given, Gilles Hennenfent, Cory Hoelting
  • Patent number: 11372131
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a standard numerical age to an attribute of geological data from disparate locations. Exemplary implementations may include generating a standardized geological age dataset by standardizing geological data to a global reference age based on a dimension of the geological data, a local geotemporal marker, and a dimension to age function; and storing the standardized geological age dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Anna Edwards Johnson, Cheryl Peyser, Anthony Gary, Lawrence Andrew Febo, Chaoshun Hu
  • Publication number: 20220164657
    Abstract: Embodiments of generating a field development plan for a hydrocarbon field development are provided herein. One embodiment comprises generating a plurality of training reservoir models of varying values of input channels of a reservoir template; normalizing the varying values of the input channels to generate normalized values of the input channels; constructing a policy neural network and a value neural network that project a state represented by the normalized values of the input channels to a field development action and a value of the state respectively; and training the policy neural network and the value neural network using deep reinforcement learning on the plurality of training reservoir models with a reservoir simulator as an environment such that the policy neural network generates a field development plan. A field development plan may be generated for a target reservoir on the reservoir template using the trained policy network and the reservoir simulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Jincong HE, Xian-Huan WEN, Meng TANG, Chaoshun HU, Shusei TANAKA, Kainan WANG
  • Patent number: 11187071
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating reservoir productivity as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. The systems and methods may: obtain subsurface data and well data corresponding to a subsurface volume of interest; obtain a parameter model; use the subsurface data and the well data to generate multiple production parameter maps; apply the parameter model to the multiple production parameter maps to generate refined production parameter values; generate multiple refined production parameter graphs; display the multiple refined production parameter graphs; generate one or more user input options; receive a defined well design and the one or more user input options selected by a user to generate limited production parameter values; generate a representation of estimated reservoir productivity as a function of position in the subsurface volume of interest using the defined well design and visual effects; and display the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Leonard Lin Zhang, Chaoshun Hu, Chunling Wu
  • Publication number: 20210149076
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a standard numerical age to an attribute of geological data from disparate locations. Exemplary implementations may include generating a standardized geological age dataset by standardizing geological data to a global reference age based on a dimension of the geological data, a local geotemporal marker, and a dimension to age function; and storing the standardized geological age dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Elizabeth Anna Edwards Johnson, Cheryl Peyser, Anthony Gary, Lawrence Andrew Febo, Chaoshun Hu
  • Publication number: 20210097390
    Abstract: A method is described for predicting permeability including receiving a 3-D earth model including a volume of interest; generating 2-D property images; receiving 2-D fracture images; training a physics-guided neural network using the 2-D fracture images; and predicting permeability using the physics-guided neural network applied to the 2-D property images. The method is executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Baosheng LIANG, Chaoshun HU, Min LI
  • Publication number: 20200018149
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for detecting a given subsurface event in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a subsurface fiber optic data set; receive a sensor data set using one or more sensors; constrain the subsurface fiber optic data set based on a given parameter value of a given parameter within a certain range to generate a constrained subsurface fiber optic data set; use sets of models to refine the constrained subsurface fiber optic data set to generate a refined subsurface fiber optic data set; estimate an event location of the given subsurface event based on the refined subsurface fiber optic data set; and estimate an origin time based on the event location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Leonard Lin Zhang, Chaoshun Hu, Chunling Wu
  • Patent number: 10365386
    Abstract: A method is described for improving subsalt seismic imaging using wavefield redatuming. The method redatums the source wavefield and receiver wavefield to the salt surface. It cross-correlates the redatumed wavefields and uses the time cross-correlations to update the salt surface. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Uwe Karsten Albertin, Chaoshun Hu
  • Patent number: 10234581
    Abstract: A method is described for high-resolution seismic imaging of complex subsurface volumes using a two-stage least-squares reverse time migration with two objective functions. A traveltime misfit objective function enables long-wavelength imaging and an amplitude misfit objective function enables short-wavelength imaging. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Chaoshun Hu
  • Patent number: 9921324
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a target-oriented reverse time migration may include obtaining a seismic dataset and a geologic model representative of the subsurface volume of interest; identifying a target based on the seismic dataset and the geologic model; calculating a normal to represent a structural dip direction for at least one point on the target; upward propagating a cluster of beams from the at least one point on the target to a surface representing an acquisition surface of the seismic data; identifying valid source-receiver beam pairs based on coverage of the seismic dataset; accumulating coverage of the valid source-receiver beam pairs; identifying traces from the seismic dataset that fall within the accumulated beam pair coverage; and performing a target-oriented reverse time migration using the identified traces to produce a seismic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Chaoshun Hu, Uwe Karsten Albertin
  • Publication number: 20160370481
    Abstract: A method is described for high-resolution seismic imaging of complex subsurface volumes using a two-stage least-squares reverse time migration with two objective functions. A traveltime misfit objective function enables long-wavelength imaging and an amplitude misfit objective function enables short-wavelength imaging. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Chaoshun HU
  • Publication number: 20160291177
    Abstract: A method is described for improving subsalt seismic imaging using wavefield redatuming. The method redatums the source wavefield and receiver wavefield to the salt surface. It cross-correlates the redatumed wavefields and uses the time cross-correlations to update the salt surface. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Uwe Karsten ALBERTIN, Chaoshun HU
  • Publication number: 20160291183
    Abstract: A method is described for seismic imaging of complex subsurface volumes including an optimized partial stack based on ray coverage determined for vector image partition tiles. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Chaoshun HU, Leonard Lin ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160266266
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a target-oriented reverse time migration may include obtaining a seismic dataset and a geologic model representative of the subsurface volume of interest; identifying a target based on the seismic dataset and the geologic model; calculating a normal to represent a structural dip direction for at least one point on the target; upward propagating a cluster of beams from the at least one point on the target to a surface representing an acquisition surface of the seismic data; identifying valid source-receiver beam pairs based on coverage of the seismic dataset; accumulating coverage of the valid source-receiver beam pairs; identifying traces from the seismic dataset that fall within the accumulated beam pair coverage; and performing a target-oriented reverse time migration using the identified traces to produce a seismic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Chaoshun HU, Uwe Karsten ALBERTIN
  • Patent number: 8301385
    Abstract: Beamed data can be obtained from shot gather data, and debeamed data can be obtained from beamed data. Shot gather data for a geophysical volume of interest in a first domain and/or beamed data in a third domain may be received. The first domain has a component relating to seismic wave propagation time and a spatial component relating to lateral spacing. The third domain has a component relating to local plane wave arrival time at a beam center surface location and a component relating to plane wave arrival directions. Data may be transformed between the first domain and a second domain. The second domain has a frequency component and a spatial component corresponding to the spatial component of the first domain. A forward or reverse transform may be applied to transform shot gather data in the first domain to/from beamed data in the third domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Chaoshun Hu, Yue Wang, Tamas Nemeth
  • Publication number: 20120159124
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a system for computational acceleration of seismic data processing are described. The method includes defining a specific non-uniform memory access (NUMA) scheduling for a plurality of cores in a processor according to data to be processed; and running two or more threads through each of the plurality of cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Chaoshun Hu, Yue Wang, Tamas Nemeth
  • Publication number: 20110320129
    Abstract: Beamed data can be obtained from shot gather data, and debeamed data can be obtained from beamed data. Shot gather data for a geophysical volume of interest in a first domain and/or beamed data in a third domain may be received. The first domain has a component relating to seismic wave propagation time and a spatial component relating to lateral spacing. The third domain has a component relating to local plane wave arrival time at a beam center surface location and a component relating to plane wave arrival directions. Data may be transformed between the first domain and a second domain. The second domain has a frequency component and a spatial component corresponding to the spatial component of the first domain. Data may be weighted and/or deweighted in the second domain using a weighting function. A forward transform may be applied to weighted shot gather data in the first domain to obtain beamed data in the third domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Chaoshun Hu, Yue Wang, Tamas Nemeth