Patents by Inventor Morgan David Sullivan

Morgan David Sullivan 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: 20240061146
    Abstract: A group of wells may be located within a region of interest. Multiple scenarios of boundary locations within a group of wells may be obtained. A top-and-base boundary pair, defining a package of interest, may be identified within the individual scenarios of boundary locations. A subsurface property of the package of interest within the individual scenarios of boundary locations may be determined, and the subsurface property of the package of interest within the individual scenarios of boundary locations may be used to determine a subsurface characteristic of the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Chadwick HOLMES, Morgan David SULLIVAN, Ashley D. HARRIS, Fabien J. LAUGIER
  • Publication number: 20230351079
    Abstract: An intermediary well may be selected for a group of wells. The intermediary well may be used as an origin point from which branching wells paths are generated to connect the group of wells through the intermediary well. A shortest path between the intermediary well and the group of wells along the branching well paths may be identified, and the group of wells may be aligned along the shortest path. Boundaries of the intermediary well may be propagated to the aligned group of wells to establish correlation between segments of the intermediary well and segments of the aligned group of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Chadwick HOLMES, Fabien J. LAUGIER, Ashley D. HARRIS, Morgan David SULLIVAN
  • Patent number: 11454733
    Abstract: A method is described for analysis of subsurface data including the use of physics-based modeling and experimental design that allows calculation of probabilities of physical subsurface properties. The method may include calculations of key controlling parameters. The method may include using multiple dimension scaling. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Brian J. Willis, Maisha L. Amaru, Ashley D. Harris, Morgan David Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11263362
    Abstract: A subsurface representation may define simulated subsurface configuration of a simulated subsurface region. The simulated subsurface region may include simulated wells, and the simulated subsurface configuration may define simulated correlation between the simulated wells. Subsurface configuration of wells may be compared with the simulated subsurface configuration to generate similarity maps for the wells. Simulated wells may be matched to the wells based on the similarity maps and the arrangement of the wells. Correlation between the wells may be determined based on the simulated correlation between the matched simulated wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Brett M. Hern, Brian Willis, Fabien J. Laugier, Maisha Lara Amaru, Ashley D. Harris, Morgan David Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11249220
    Abstract: Correlation matrices may be used to simultaneously correlate multiple wells. A correlation matrix may be generated for individual pairs of multiple wells. The values of elements of the correlation matrices may be determined based on matching between segments of the multiple wells and segments of one or more computational stratigraphic models. An N-dimensional space including an axis for individual wells may be generated. Directed walk may be performed within the N-dimensional space to generate paths representing scenarios of correlations for segments of the multiple wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Lewis Li, Brett M. Hern, Fabien J. Laugier, Maisha Lara Amaru, Ashley D. Harris, Morgan David Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11105944
    Abstract: A method is described for estimating hydrocarbon reservoir attributes including obtaining a geophysical dataset and a geological dataset; obtaining a parameter model, the parameter model having been conditioned by training an initial parameter model using training data, wherein the geological data includes well data and the training data includes the well data; picking a surface in the geophysical dataset; assigning stratigraphic meaning to the at least one surface based on the geological dataset; identifying at least one region of interest on the at least one surface; generating statistical seismic attributes for the at least one region; identifying critical attributes among the statistical seismic attributes by applying the parameter model to generate response variable maps for the at least one region; and generating uncertainty maps for each of the critical attributes and for the response variables. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Ellen Xiaoxia Xu, Yuanbo Lin, Ke Wang, Todd C. Dygert, Morgan David Sullivan, James P. Disiena
  • Publication number: 20210222523
    Abstract: A subsurface representation may define simulated subsurface configuration of a simulated subsurface region. The simulated subsurface region may include simulated wells, and the simulated subsurface configuration may define simulated correlation between the simulated wells. Subsurface configuration of wells may be compared with the simulated subsurface configuration to generate similarity maps for the wells. Simulated wells may be matched to the wells based on the similarity maps and the arrangement of the wells. Correlation between the wells may be determined based on the simulated correlation between the matched simulated wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Tao SUN, Brett M. HERN, Brian WILLIS, Fabien J. LAUGIER, Maisha Lara AMARU, Ashley D. HARRIS, Morgan David SULLIVAN
  • Publication number: 20210048556
    Abstract: Correlation matrices may be used to simultaneously correlate multiple wells. A correlation matrix may be generated for individual pairs of multiple wells. The values of elements of the correlation matrices may be determined based on matching between segments of the multiple wells and segments of one or more computational stratigraphic models. An N-dimensional space including an axis for individual wells may be generated. Directed walk may be performed within the N-dimensional space to generate paths representing scenarios of correlations for segments of the multiple wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Lewis Li, Brett M. Hern, Fabien J. Laugier, Maisha Lara Amaru, Ashley D. Harris, Morgan David Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20200348433
    Abstract: A method is described for estimating hydrocarbon reservoir attributes including obtaining a geophysical dataset and a geological dataset; obtaining a parameter model, the parameter model having been conditioned by training an initial parameter model using training data, wherein the geological data includes well data and the training data includes the well data; picking a surface in the geophysical dataset; assigning stratigraphic meaning to the at least one surface based on the geological dataset; identifying at least one region of interest on the at least one surface; generating statistical seismic attributes for the at least one region; identifying critical attributes among the statistical seismic attributes by applying the parameter model to generate response variable maps for the at least one region; and generating uncertainty maps for each of the critical attributes and for the response variables. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Ellen Xiaoxia Xu, Yuanbo Lin, Ke Wang, Todd C. Dygert, Morgan David Sullivan, James P. Disiena
  • Publication number: 20200174145
    Abstract: A method is described for analysis of subsurface data including the use of physics-based modeling and experimental design that allows calculation of probabilities of physical subsurface properties. The method may include calculations of key controlling parameters. The method may include using multiple dimension scaling. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Brian J. Willis, Maisha L. Amaru, Ashley D. Harris, Morgan David Sullivan