Patents by Inventor Colum M. Keith

Colum M. Keith 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: 11320552
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations. According to the methods, received microseismic data is processed to obtain a plurality of data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a predetermined time interval. For each data panel, trigger values are calculated for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system. At least one data panel is selected as a triggered data panel that satisfies predetermined triggering criteria. A value is calculated for each of at least two event attributes of a plurality of event attributes of the event. An event is classified into at least one event category of a plurality of event categories based on the event score. Related non-transitory computer usable mediums are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard J. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen, Xinlong Liu
  • Patent number: 10921471
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations. According to the methods and systems, received microseismic data is processed to obtain a plurality of data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a predetermined time interval. For each data panel, trigger values are calculated for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system. At least one data panel is selected as a triggered data panel that satisfies predetermined triggering criteria. At least one triggered data panel is selected as a non-trivial data panel that satisfies spectral density criteria. A value is calculated for each of at least two event attributes of a plurality of event attributes of the event. An event score is determined based on the values of the plurality of event attributes. An event is classified into at least one event category of a plurality of event categories based on the event score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard J. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen
  • Publication number: 20190324166
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations by receiving microseismic data; processing the data to obtain data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a time interval; determining, with a neural network analysis, whether any of the data panels includes a noise event or a non-noise event; calculating, for each data panel including a non-noise event, trigger values for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system; selecting, as a triggered data panel, at least one data panel that satisfies triggering criteria; selecting, as a non-trivial data panel, at least one triggered data panel that satisfies spectral density criteria; calculating a value for each of at least two event attributes of the event; determining an event score based on the event attribute values; and classifying the event into at least one event category based on the event score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan LOLLA, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard J. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen, Xinlong Liu
  • Publication number: 20190302291
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring operation integrity during hydrocarbon production or fluid injection operations by receiving microseismic data; processing the microseismic data to obtain a plurality of data panels corresponding to microseismic data measured over a predetermined time interval; calculating, for each data panel, trigger values for data traces corresponding to sensor receivers of the microseismic monitoring system; selecting, as a triggered data panel, at least one data panel that satisfies predetermined triggering criteria; selecting, as a non-trivial data panel, at least one triggered data panel that satisfies spectral density criteria; calculating a value for each of at least two event attributes of a plurality of event attributes of the event; determining an event score based on the values of the plurality of event attributes; and classifying the event into at least one event category of a plurality of event categories based on the event score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Simona O. Costin, Michael S. Hons, Helen Yam, Arslan Akhmetov, Tim W. Hayward, Richard j. Smith, Colum M. Keith, Marc-Andre P. Chen