Patents by Inventor Scott A. Canann

Scott A. Canann 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).

  • Method and system for modeling and predicting hydraulic fracture performance in hydrocarbon reservoirs
    Patent number: 7925482
    Abstract: A method and system for generating an unstructured automatic mesh and executing computational algorithms using a finite element numerical approach is disclosed. The method is to model a hydrocarbon reservoir, wells, and completions as a single system, accounting for static information and transient behavior of wells, hydraulic fractures and reservoirs in a single model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Object Reservoir, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Kennon, Scott A. Canann, Steven B. Ward, Frank Joseph Eaton
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING AND PREDICTING HYDRAULIC FRACTURE PERFORMANCE IN HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS
    Publication number: 20080091396
    Abstract: A method and system for generating an unstructured automatic mesh and executing computational algorithms using a finite element numerical approach is disclosed. The method is to model a hydrocarbon reservoir, wells, and completions as a single system, accounting for static information and transient behavior of wells, hydraulic fractures and reservoirs in a single model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen R. Kennon, Scott A. Canann, Steven B. Ward, Frank Joseph Eaton
  • Method and system for modeling geological structures using an unstructured four-dimensional mesh
    Patent number: 6674432
    Abstract: A method for solving space-time problems involving three-dimensional space wherein an unstructured four-dimensional finite element model is generated and solved to produce a four-dimensional solution. The four-dimensional mesh is generated from a three-dimensional mesh by extruding each of the simplices of the three-dimensional mesh in a time dimension. The four-dimensional prisms formed by extrusion of the three-dimensional simplices are divided into a plurality of four-dimensional simplices which form a four-dimensional finite element model. The elements of the four-dimensional model can be selectively refined to obtain a finer mesh in areas of greater interest, and a coarser mesh in areas which are of less interest. The mesh can be refined in the spatial dimensions and also in the temporal dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Object Reservoir, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Kennon, Scott A. Canann, Steven B. Ward
  • Method and system for modeling geological structures using an unstructured four-dimensional mesh
    Publication number: 20020050993
    Abstract: A method for solving space-time problems involving three-dimensional space wherein an unstructured four-dimensional finite element model is generated and solved to produce a four-dimensional solution. The four-dimensional mesh is generated from a three-dimensional mesh by extruding each of the simplices of the three-dimensional mesh in a time dimension. The four-dimensional prisms formed by extrusion of the three-dimensional simplices are divided into a plurality of four-dimensional simplices which form a four-dimensional finite element model. The elements of the four-dimensional model can be selectively refined to obtain a finer mesh in areas of greater interest, and a coarser mesh in areas which are of less interest. The mesh can be refined in the spatial dimensions and also in the temporal dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Stephen R. Kennon, Scott A. Canann, Steven B. Ward