Patents by Inventor Sergio Fabio Courtade

Sergio Fabio Courtade 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: 9869799
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media geologic modeling are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving an identification of a type of architectural element in association with a first well in a subterranean domain, based at least partially on data collected from the first well, and determining one or more characteristics of the type of architectural element. The method may also include defining, using a processor, an architectural element of the type of architectural element, in a representation of the subterranean domain and in association with the first well, based on the one or more characteristics, and displaying, using the processor and a display device in communication therewith, the architectural element intersecting the first well in a model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Sergio Fabio Courtade, Robert Messenger
  • Publication number: 20150112654
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for processing seismic data. The method includes receiving seismic traces representing a three-dimensional physical domain, and determining a partition of a similarity matrix based on a subset of the seismic traces. The method also includes determining a transition matrix based on the partition. The method also includes determining one or more eigenvectors and one or more eigenvalues, based on the transition matrix. The method includes calculating one or more approximated eigenvectors for the similarity matrix, based on the partition, the one or more eigenvectors of the transition matrix, and the one or more eigenvalues of the transition matrix. The method includes assigning visual indicator values to the respective seismic traces based on the one or more approximated eigenvectors, and causing a visualization of the three-dimensional physical domain to be displayed in a two-dimensional view, based on the one or more visual indicator values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Ivar Bratberg, Andreas Lusth, Bradley Clark Wallet, Sergio Fabio Courtade
  • Publication number: 20150106074
    Abstract: A method can include providing spatial data for a base case of a subsurface geologic formation; providing spatial data for a simulation case of the subsurface geologic formation; performing box counting for the spatial data for the base case; performing box counting for the spatial data for the simulation case; based on the box counting for the spatial data for the base case, determining a fractal dimension for the base case; based on the box counting for the spatial data for the simulation case, determining a fractal dimension for the simulation case; comparing the simulation case to the base case based at least in part on the fractal dimensions; and, based on the comparing, adjusting one or more simulation parameters to generate spatial data for an additional simulation case of the subsurface geologic formation. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Sergio Fabio Courtade, Alina-Berenice Christ, Horacio Ricardo Bouzas
  • Publication number: 20150088424
    Abstract: A method for performing a field operation of a field having a subterranean formation. The method includes analyzing, by a computer processor, a plurality of training well logs of a plurality of training wells in the field to generate a plurality of training well markers, wherein the plurality of training well markers identify where the plurality of training wells intercept a plurality of geologic interval boundaries in the subterranean formation, propagating, by the computer processor and onto a target well log of a target well in the field, the plurality of training well markers to generate a plurality of target well markers, wherein the plurality of target well markers identify where the target well intercepts the plurality of geologic interval boundaries, and performing the field operation based at least on identifying where the target well intercepts the plurality of geologic interval boundaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Nikita Sergeyevich Burlakov, Sergio Fabio Courtade, Sergey Nikolayevich Skripkin
  • Publication number: 20150073764
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media geologic modeling are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving an identification of a type of architectural element in association with a first well in a subterranean domain, based at least partially on data collected from the first well, and determining one or more characteristics of the type of architectural element. The method may also include defining, using a processor, an architectural element of the type of architectural element, in a representation of the subterranean domain and in association with the first well, based on the one or more characteristics, and displaying, using the processor and a display device in communication therewith, the architectural element intersecting the first well in a model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: SERGIO FABIO COURTADE, ROBERT MESSENGER
  • Patent number: 8892388
    Abstract: A method can include providing spatial data for a base case of a subsurface geologic formation; providing spatial data for a simulation case of the subsurface geologic formation; performing box counting for the spatial data for the base case; performing box counting for the spatial data for the simulation case; based on the box counting for the spatial data for the base case, determining a fractal dimension for the base case; based on the box counting for the spatial data for the simulation case, determining a fractal dimension for the simulation case; comparing the simulation case to the base case based at least in part on the fractal dimensions; and, based on the comparing, adjusting one or more simulation parameters to generate spatial data for an additional simulation case of the subsurface geologic formation. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Sergio Fabio Courtade, Alina-Berenice Christ, Horacio Ricardo Bouzas
  • Publication number: 20120084043
    Abstract: A method can include providing spatial data for a base case of a subsurface geologic formation; providing spatial data for a simulation case of the subsurface geologic formation; performing box counting for the spatial data for the base case; performing box counting for the spatial data for the simulation case; based on the box counting for the spatial data for the base case, determining a fractal dimension for the base case; based on the box counting for the spatial data for the simulation case, determining a fractal dimension for the simulation case; comparing the simulation case to the base case based at least in part on the fractal dimensions; and, based on the comparing, adjusting one or more simulation parameters to generate spatial data for an additional simulation case of the subsurface geologic formation. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Sergio Fabio Courtade, Alina-Berenice Christ, Horacio Ricardo Bouzas