Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Onda

Hitoshi Onda 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: 11578568
    Abstract: Well management includes receiving, from a user computing system, a simulation job request for simulating well management on the cloud computing system including compute nodes, and obtaining, for the simulation job request, search spaces for completion stage simulations, fracture stage simulations, and production stage simulations. Well management further includes orchestrating, using the search spaces, the completion stage simulations, the fracture stage simulations, and the production stage simulations on the cloud computing system to obtain at least one optional well plan, and sending the at least one optional well plan to the user computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Mogou Dessap, Piyush Pankaj, Kenneth J. Sheldon, Hitoshi Onda, Bjorn Nordmoen
  • 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
  • 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: 10787887
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having multiple wellbores therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures. The method involves generating fracture parameters including a hydraulic fracture network of a fracture grid for each of the multiple wellbores based on wellsite data including microseismic events and a mechanical earth model, generating reservoir parameters including an updated mechanical earth model of a reservoir grid based on the wellsite data and the fracture parameters, generating integrated wellsite parameters including an integrated earth model by integrating the fracture parameters from the multiple wellbores with the reservoir parameters, and performing production operations at the multiple wellbores based on the integrated wellsite parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Piyush Pankaj, Hitoshi Onda, Sumant Kamat, Iakov Kozlov
  • Patent number: 10563493
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves performing reservoir characterization to generate a mechanical earth model based on integrated petrophysical, geomechanical and geophysical data. The method also involves generating a stimulation plan by performing well planning, a staging design, a stimulation design and a production prediction based on the mechanical earth model. The stimulation design is optimized by repeating the well planning, staging design, stimulation design, and production prediction in a feedback loop until an optimized stimulation plan is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Utpal Ganguly, Hitoshi Onda, Xiaowei Weng
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10087722
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The plurality of stress blocks may then be merged using diversion criterion. The composite quality indicator may be combined with the merged stress blocks to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruno Lecerf, Dmitriy Usoltsev, Timothy L. Pope, Alejandro Pena, Tarik Itibrout, Xiaowei Weng, Hitoshi Onda, Philippe Enkababian
  • Publication number: 20180230785
    Abstract: Well management includes receiving, from a user computing system, a simulation job request for simulating well management on the cloud computing system including compute nodes, and obtaining, for the simulation job request, search spaces for completion stage simulations, fracture stage simulations, and production stage simulations. Well management further includes orchestrating, using the search spaces, the completion stage simulations, the fracture stage simulations, and the production stage simulations on the cloud computing system to obtain at least one optional well plan, and sending the at least one optional well plan to the user computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Jean-Paul MOGOU DESSAP, Piyush PANKAJ, Kenneth J. SHELDON, Hitoshi ONDA, Bjorn NORDMOEN
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20180230782
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having multiple wellbores therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures. The method involves generating fracture parameters including a hydraulic fracture network of a fracture grid for each of the multiple wellbores based on wellsite data including microseismic events and a mechanical earth model, generating reservoir parameters including an updated mechanical earth model of a reservoir grid based on the wellsite data and the fracture parameters, generating integrated wellsite parameters including an integrated earth model by integrating the fracture parameters from the multiple wellbores with the reservoir parameters, and performing production operations at the multiple wellbores based on the integrated wellsite parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Piyush PANKAJ, Hitoshi ONDA, Sumant KAMAT, lakov KOZLOV
  • Patent number: 9556720
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The composite quality indicator may be combined with a stress log to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise identifying classifications for the plurality of blocks; defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the classifications thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onda, Utpal Ganguly, Xiaowei Weng
  • Publication number: 20160115771
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves performing reservoir characterization to generate a mechanical earth model based on integrated petrophysical, geomechanical and geophysical data. The method also involves generating a stimulation plan by performing well planning, a staging design, a stimulation design and a production prediction based on the mechanical earth model. The stimulation design is optimized by repeating the well planning, staging design, stimulation design, and production prediction in a feedback loop until an optimized stimulation plan is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Utpal Ganguly, Hitoshi Onda, Xiaowei Weng
  • Publication number: 20160047207
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The plurality of stress blocks may then be merged using diversion criterion. The composite quality indicator may be combined with the merged stress blocks to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Bruno Lecerf, Dmitriy Usoltsev, Timothy L. Pope, Alejandro Pena, Tarik Itibrout, Xiaowei Weng, Hitoshi Onda, Philippe Enkababian
  • Patent number: 9228425
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves performing reservoir characterization to generate a mechanical earth model based on integrated petrophysical, geomechanical and geophysical data. The method also involves generating a stimulation plan by performing well planning, a staging design, a stimulation design and a production prediction based on the mechanical earth model. The stimulation design is optimized by repeating the well planning, staging design, stimulation design, and production prediction in a feedback loop until an optimized stimulation plan is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Utpal Ganguly, Hitoshi Onda, Xiaowei Weng
  • Patent number: 9135475
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The plurality of stress blocks may then be merged using diversion criterion. The composite quality indicator may be combined with the merged stress blocks to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sclumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Bruno Lecerf, Dmitriy Usoltsev, Timothy L. Pope, Alejandro Pena, Tarik Itibrout, Xiaowei Weng, Hitoshi Onda, Philippe Enkababian
  • Publication number: 20140222405
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The plurality of stress blocks may then be merged using diversion criterion. The composite quality indicator may be combined with the merged stress blocks to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Bruno Lecerf, Dmitriy Usoltsev, Timothy L. Pope, Alejandro Pena, Tarik Itibrout, Xiaowei Weng, Hitoshi Onda, Philippe Enkababian
  • Publication number: 20120185225
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The composite quality indicator may be combined with a stress log to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise identifying classifications for the plurality of blocks; defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the classifications thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onda, Utpal Ganguly, Xiaowei Weng
  • Publication number: 20120179444
    Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves performing reservoir characterization to generate a mechanical earth model based on integrated petrophysical, geomechanical and geophysical data. The method also involves generating a stimulation plan by performing well planning, a staging design, a stimulation design and a production prediction based on the mechanical earth model. The stimulation design is optimized by repeating the well planning, staging design, stimulation design, and production prediction in a feedback loop until an optimized stimulation plan is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Utpal Ganguly, Hitoshi Onda, Xiaowei Weng
  • Publication number: 20110091078
    Abstract: A method for identifying geological features in an image of an underground formation surrounding a borehole. The method comprising: analysing the image properties to identify image regions and defining segments based on the identified image regions. Then identifying segments corresponding to a group relating to a geological feature and analysing the segments of the group to classify the feature as one of a pre-determined type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Josselin Kherroubi, Arnaud Etchecopar, Hitoshi Onda
  • Patent number: 7236887
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a user-guided dip picking method from electrical borehole images using Hough Transform. It includes defining a top and bottom reference curve, applying the Hough Transform to the borehole image limited by the top and bottom reference dips so that the Hough Transform space is restrained in the neighborhood of the reference dips. A 1D average trace representing the extrema of the 3D Hough parameter space for each depth is then computed and the extrema exceeding a given threshold are search in this 1D trace. The position in the 3D Hough space of an extremum represents a dip event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yinyu Wang, Arnaud Etchecopar, Hitoshi Onda, Gilles Mathieu