Patents by Inventor Simone Kugler

Simone Kugler 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: 20120053839
    Abstract: Subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir-sized structures are detected or monitored by ambient noise tomography. Interface wave data are recorded for interface waves excited by seismic ambient noise. The data are recorded simultaneously at pairs of locations with the locations of each pair being spaced by less than or equal to a wavelength at the frequencies of interest. The recorded data are processed (3-7) by tomography to obtain group-velocity and/or phase-velocity tomograms, which are inverted to obtain seismic parameters values, such as seismic velocity. The seismic parameters may then be used to form a geological model (8) of a subsurface region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: STATOIL ASA
    Inventors: Simone Kugler, Sascha Bussat, Peter Hanssen