Patents by Inventor Trace Boone Smith

Trace Boone Smith 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: 11879316
    Abstract: A method may comprise: modeling a complex fracture network within the subterranean formation with a mathematical model based on a natural fracture network map and measured data of the subterranean formation collected in association with a fracturing treatment of the subterranean formation to produce a complex fracture network map; importing microseismic data collected in association with the fracturing treatment of the subterranean formation into the mathematical model; identifying directions of continuity in the microseismic data via a geostatistical analysis that is part of the mathematical model; and correlating the directions of continuity in the microseismic data to the complex fracture network with the mathematical model to produce a microseismic-weighted (MSW) complex fracture network map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Marc Yarus, Ashwani Dev, Jin Fei, Trace Boone Smith
  • Publication number: 20190277124
    Abstract: A method may comprise: modeling a complex fracture network within the subterranean formation with a mathematical model based on a natural fracture network map and measured data of the subterranean formation collected in association with a fracturing treatment of the subterranean formation to produce a complex fracture network map; importing microseismic data collected in association with the fracturing treatment of the subterranean formation into the mathematical model; identifying directions of continuity in the microseismic data via a geostatistical analysis that is part of the mathematical model; and correlating the directions of continuity in the microseismic data to the complex fracture network with the mathematical model to produce a microseismic-weighted (MSW) complex fracture network map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey Marc Yarus, Ashwani Dev, Jin Fei, Trace Boone Smith
  • Patent number: 10060228
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for approximating multiphase flow reservoir production simulation for ranking multiple petro-physical realizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Trace Boone Smith, Travis St. George Ramsay
  • Patent number: 10061875
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for approximating multiphase flow reservoir production simulation. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a system that includes at least one processor and memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor performs operations that includes generating a set of pseudo-phase production relative permeability curves; receiving production rate history data; receiving simulation configuration parameters; performing flow simulation using the set of pseudo-phase production relative permeability curves; determining an optimal matching pseudo-phase production simulation result that best matches the production rate history data; and performing relative permeability inversion using signal processing analysis of production rate history data to approximate relative permeability curve descriptions with quantified uncertainty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis St. George Ramsay, Trace Boone Smith
  • Publication number: 20160196369
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for approximating multiphase flow reservoir production simulation. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a system that includes at least one processor and memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor performs operations that includes generating a set of pseudo-phase production relative permeability curves; receiving production rate history data; receiving simulation configuration parameters; performing flow simulation using the set of pseudo-phase production relative permeability curves; determining an optimal matching pseudo-phase production simulation result that best matches the production rate history data; and performing relative permeability inversion using signal processing analysis of production rate history data to approximate relative permeability curve descriptions with quantified uncertainty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Travis St. George Ramsay, Trace Boone Smith
  • Publication number: 20160177681
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for approximating multiphase flow reservoir production simulation for ranking multiple petro-physical realizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Trace Boone Smith, Travis St. George Ramsay