Patents by Inventor Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro

Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro 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: 11402540
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media, of which the method includes calculating strains, stresses, or both resulting from pressure changes in a subterranean volume using a geomechanical model, determining one or more local correlations between pressure changes and changes in permeability, porosity, or both in the subterranean volume using the calculated strains and stresses, generating one or more compaction tables for the subterranean volume using the local correlations, calculating pressure changes in the subterranean volume by simulating fluid flow in the subterranean volume using a reservoir model, and modifying the reservoir model using the one or more compaction tables and the calculated pressure changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Adrian Rodriguez Herrera
  • Patent number: 10920538
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures. The method involves generating fracture parameters including a hydraulic fracture network based on wellsite data including a mechanical earth model, generating reservoir parameters including a reservoir grid based on the wellsite data and the generated fracture wellsite parameters, forming a finite element grid from the fracture and reservoir parameters by coupling the hydraulic fracture network to the reservoir grid, generating integrated geomechanical parameters including estimated microseismic events based on the finite element grid, and performing fracture operations and production operations based on the integrated geomechanical parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez Herrera, Nikolaos Koutsabeloulis, Piyush Pankaj, Hitoshi Onda, Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro
  • Patent number: 10788604
    Abstract: A method can include receiving mechanical information of a geologic environment and location information of natural fractures of the geologic environment; using a model of the geologic environment, calculating at least strain associated with hydraulic fracturing in the geologic environment; calculating at least microseismicity event locations based at least in part on the calculated strain; calibrating the model based at least in part on the calculated microseismicity event locations and based at least in part on measured microseismicity information associated with the geologic environment to provide a calibrated model; and, using the calibrated model, determining an increase in reactivated fracture volume associated with hydraulic fracturing in the geologic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Fabian Krzikalla, Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera, Andres Alfonso Pena Olarte, James Minton
  • Patent number: 10656295
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more subsurface stress models. The method may include receiving seismic data. A plurality of first geomechanical property models may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. A second geomechanical property model may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. The second geomechanical property model may have a lower resolution than the first geomechanical property models. A stress model, a strain model, or a combination thereof may be generated based on the second geomechanical property model. One or more subsurface stress models may be generated based on the stress model, the strain model, or the combination thereof and the first geomechanical property models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera, Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Jorg V. Herwanger, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Tone Trudeng, Jalal Khazanehdari
  • Publication number: 20200096671
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media, of which the method includes calculating strains, stresses, or both resulting from pressure changes in a subterranean volume using a geomechanical model, determining one or more local correlations between pressure changes and changes in permeability, porosity, or both in the subterranean volume using the calculated strains and stresses, generating one or more compaction tables for the subterranean volume using the local correlations, calculating pressure changes in the subterranean volume by simulating fluid flow in the subterranean volume using a reservoir model, and modifying the reservoir model using the one or more compaction tables and the calculated pressure changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Adrian Rodriguez Herrera
  • Publication number: 20180230784
    Abstract: A method of performing oilfield operations at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a fracture network therein. The fracture network includes natural fractures. The method involves generating fracture parameters including a hydraulic fracture network based on wellsite data including a mechanical earth model, generating reservoir parameters including a reservoir grid based on the wellsite data and the generated fracture wellsite parameters, forming a finite element grid from the fracture and reservoir parameters by coupling the hydraulic fracture network to the reservoir grid, generating integrated geomechanical parameters including estimated microseismic events based on the finite element grid, and performing fracture operations and production operations based on the integrated geomechanical parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Adrian RODRIGUEZ HERRERA, Nikolaos KOUTSABELOULIS, Piyush PANKAJ, Hitoshi ONDA, Xavier GARCIA-TEIJEIRO
  • Publication number: 20150377005
    Abstract: A method can include receiving mechanical information of a geologic environment and location information of natural fractures of the geologic environment; using a model of the geologic environment, calculating at least strain associated with hydraulic fracturing in the geologic environment; calculating at least microseismicity event locations based at least in part on the calculated strain; calibrating the model based at least in part on the calculated microseismicity event locations and based at least in part on measured microseismicity information associated with the geologic environment to provide a calibrated model; and, using the calibrated model, determining an increase in reactivated fracture volume associated with hydraulic fracturing in the geologic environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis
  • Publication number: 20150112656
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more subsurface stress models. The method may include receiving seismic data. A plurality of first geomechanical property models may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. A second geomechanical property model may be generated based at least partially on the seismic data. The second geomechanical property model may have a lower resolution than the first geomechanical property models. A stress model, a strain model, or a combination thereof may be generated based on the second geomechanical property model. One or more subsurface stress models may be generated based on the stress model, the strain model, or the combination thereof and the first geomechanical property models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera, Xavier Garcia-Teijeiro, Jorg V. Herwanger, Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Tone Trudeng, Jalal Khazanehdari