Seismology Patents (Class 702/14)
  • Patent number: 12264578
    Abstract: A method for monitoring one or more formation fluids in a subterranean formation. The method may include disposing a logging while drilling (LWD) system into a wellbore, measuring the one or more formation fluids in the subterranean formation with an electromagnetic (EM) measurement system disposed on the LWD system to form an EM data set, and inverting the EM data set using an information handling system to form a first image of the one or more formation fluids in the subterranean formation. The method may further include disposing the LWD system into the wellbore a second time, taking a second measurement the one or more formation fluids in the subterranean formation with an EM measurement system disposed on the LWD system to form a second EM data set, inverting the second EM data set using the information handling system to form a second image, and comparing the first image to the second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel Mark Clegg, Ahmet Celalettin Aki, Alban Gerard Duriez
  • Patent number: 12259511
    Abstract: Method for acquiring seismic data is described. The method includes obtaining undersampled seismic data acquired from a non-uniform sampling grid. Attenuating multiples from the undersampled seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Shearwater GeoServices Software Inc.
    Inventors: Zhengxue Li, Yunqing Shen, Jianxing Hu, Yong Ma, Feng Chen, Yu Zhang, Chengbo Li, Charles C. Mosher, Frank D. Janiszewski, Laurence S. Williams, Jeffrey Malloy, Bradley Bankhead, Jon Anderson
  • Patent number: 12247484
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining data representing a subterranean volume, the data having been collected by a user in a field, generating a digital model representing at least the subterranean volume based in part on the data, searching the digital model based in part on one or more metadata parameters, identifying one or more gaps in the model, and determining a data acquisition activity based on the one or more gaps that were identified in the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tormod Slettemeas
  • Patent number: 12242972
    Abstract: A method for generating an impulse response for a listening point in a room includes: receiving a 3D model of the room, the position of at least one sound source in the 3D model, and acoustic properties of at least one boundary in the 3D model; using a wave based solver for determining a wave based impulse response of a wave based propagation of an impulse emitted at the at least one sound source in the 3D model and received at the listening point within a first acoustic frequency range; using a geometrical acoustics based solver for determining a geometrical impulse response of the ray based propagation of an impulse emitted at the at least one sound source in the 3D model and received at the listening point within a second acoustic frequency range; and generating the impulse response by merging the wave impulse response and the geometrical impulse response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TREBLE TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Finnur Pind, Jesper Pedersen
  • Patent number: 12242007
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a small-scale geological anomalous body detection method and device, and relates to the field of small-scale geological anomalous body detection. The method comprises: acquiring diffracted wave shot-gather data collected in a to-be-processed area and determining target single shot data having a distance to the center point, which is a predetermined distance; calculating a first horizontal distance between each shot point in the target single shot data and the center point and calculating a second horizontal distance between the detection point corresponding to each shot point and the center point; constructing a common-diffraction-point gather based on the first horizontal distances and the second horizontal distances; and processing the common-diffraction-point gather by using a correction algorithm of diffracted wave events to obtain a diffracted wave imaging profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY, BEIJING
    Inventors: Peng Lin, Jingtao Zhao, Suping Peng, Xiaoqin Cui
  • Patent number: 12236777
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a signal acquisition part acquires oscillation signals from sensors provided under lanes of a bridge and close to an expansion joint, a signal separation part applies BSS to the oscillation signals to estimate source oscillation signals respectively separated in the plurality of lanes, and adjusts amplitude of the source oscillation signals to output amplitude adjusted oscillation signals, and a vehicle estimation part estimates, from the amplitude adjusted oscillation signal, a response oscillation due to a vehicle passing on the lane of interest to detect and count vehicles passing on the lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Murtuza Petladwala, Shohei Kinoshita, Shigeru Kasai
  • Patent number: 12231674
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for encoding of an input data, to handle both variable bitrate requirements and varying importance of content of different portions of the input data. The encoding vectors may be based on a subset of data from the input data. Potential distortion in the reconstruction on a decoder side may be alleviated by transmitting a difference dataset as a complement to encoding vectors encoded from the input data. The difference dataset may be determined taking into account the importance of content of different portions of the input image to reduce the size, for example by masking out portion of the input data that is considered less important. The difference dataset may be compressed based on an available bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Martin Burlina, Subhasis Das
  • Patent number: 12222420
    Abstract: An acoustic-based Direction of Arrival (DoA) system uses acoustic information to determine the direction of incoming sound, such as a person talking. The direction of the sound is then used to focus a laser-based time of flight (ToF) system to narrow the area of laser illumination, improving the signal to noise ratio because laser illumination is focused on the direction of the sound. The DoA system also provides elevation information pertaining to the source of the sound, to further narrow the required field of view of the laser ToF system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Morio Usami, Keith Resch
  • Patent number: 12204060
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and mediums related to a full-wavefield angle gather generation for high-contrast inter-thin bed modeling for reservoir characterizations of a survey region are provided. A method may include a well logging tool having one or more sonic generators and one or more well log data recording sensors in a wellbore. Sound waves may be generated using the one or more sonic generators in order to generate reflections in the survey region. Well log data, based on the reflections, may be received using well log data recording sensors, and the well log data may be transmitted to at least one memory. A method may perform, using a computer system, a full-wavefield angle gather generation. A method may generate, by a computer system, the high-contrast inter thin-bed models based on the full-wavefield angle gather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianhua Yu, Yilong Qin
  • Patent number: 12196904
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating a first time-frequency spectrum of a first seismic trace from an original seismic dataset; generating a second time-frequency spectrum of a second seismic trace from an enhanced seismic dataset, where the second seismic trace corresponds to the first seismic trace; and re-combining an amplitude spectrum of the first time-frequency spectrum and a phase spectrum of the second time-frequency spectrum to generate a third time-frequency spectrum of an output trace that corresponds to the first and second seismic traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
    Inventors: Andrey Bakulin, Dmitry Neklyudov, Ilya Silvestrov
  • Patent number: 12181575
    Abstract: A sonar aquatic imaging system is provided for obtaining information on aquatic disturbances by imaging the thermal interface in large bodies of water. The imaging system comprises an imager, the imager comprising: a sonar wave emitter configured to emit a sonar wave signal; a reflected wave detector configured to receive a reflected wave signal; a vector network analyzer which includes a Global Navigation Satellite System and an at least one timer, the vector network analyzer in electrical communication with the sonar wave emitter via a first wire and the reflected wave detector via a second wire; and a sonar software programme in electronic communication with the vector network analyzer. The imaging system is provided as part of an aquatic installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Rodney Herring
  • Patent number: 12174328
    Abstract: A method and system for forming a seismic image of a subterranean region are disclosed. The method includes determining an initial plan for a seismic survey with a value for each member of a set of acquisition parameters and acquiring a first seismic dataset from a first portion of the seismic survey based on the initial plan. The method further includes transmitting the first seismic dataset to a seismic processor, determining a first seismic image from the first seismic dataset by performing expedited seismic processing and determining a first updated plan for the seismic survey based on the first seismic image and acquiring a second seismic dataset from a second portion of the seismic survey based on the first updated plan. The method still further includes transmitting the second seismic dataset to the seismic processor and determining the seismic based on the first seismic dataset and the second seismic dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Abdulmohsen Alali, Constantinos Tsingas
  • Patent number: 12153180
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: spectrally decomposing seismic data associated with a target subsurface area into a plurality of iso-frequency volumes; selecting a low-frequency volume and a high-frequency volume from the plurality of iso-frequency volumes; dividing the low-frequency volume by the high-frequency volume to generate a frequency ratio volume for the target subsurface area; establishing a time-depth relationship in the target subsurface area; extracting, based on the time-depth relationship and the frequency ratio volume, an iso-frequency ratio log in the target subsurface area; and using the iso-frequency ratio log to identify a subsurface gas reservoir in the target subsurface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Taher M. Sodagar, Amin Z. Alali
  • Patent number: 12147657
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various geographic maps and depth graphs in an interactive user interface in substantially real-time in response to input from a user in order to determine information related to measured data points, depth levels, and geological layers and provide the determined information to the user in the interactive user interface. For example, a computing device may be configured to retrieve data from one or more databases and generate one or more interactive user interfaces. The one or more interactive user interfaces may display the retrieved data in a geographic map, a heat map, a cross-plot graph, or one or more depth graphs. The user interface may be interactive in that a user may manipulate any of the graphs to identify trends or current or future issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Julius Wilson, Tom Alexander, Daniel Cervelli, Trevor Fountain, Quentin Spencer-Harper, Daniel Horbatt, Guillem Palou Visa, Dylan Scott, Trevor Sontag, Kevin Verdieck, Alexander Ryan, Brian Lee, Charles Shepherd, Emily Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12147579
    Abstract: A method including receiving, at a data distribution platform, a selection of a data package comprising a high fidelity data package. The method also includes filtering, automatically by a filtering application of the data distribution platform, the high fidelity data package to form a marketing data package. Filtering includes removing sufficient data from the high fidelity data package such that the marketing data package is a marketing data package. The method also includes publishing the marketing data package within the data distribution platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Alagappan Narayanan, Priya Soni, Julian Anigbogu
  • Patent number: 12123995
    Abstract: An online stress monitoring system is used to obtain a stress distribution of each position, a geophone monitoring system is used to monitor high-frequency vibration signals produced by coal and rock fracture, a support resistance monitoring system is used to monitor working resistance of hydraulic supports in a working face, a well-ground joint microseismic system is used to monitor low-frequency vibration signals produced by the coal and rock fracture, and realize position of a microseismic source and inversion imaging of mining fractures, and an anchor stress monitoring system is used to monitor stress states of anchor bolts and cables. A data processing center is used to comprehensively process data obtained from the above five systems using an early warning model, thereby to obtain a prediction result of rock burst and determine whether to make early warning, thus workers can take timely measures according to the early warning situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou Hongyi Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anye Cao, Yaoqi Liu, Xu Yang, Qing Ge, Linming Dou, Siyuan Gong, Zhifeng Ma, Wu Cai, Qiang Niu, Changbin Wang
  • Patent number: 12117986
    Abstract: A database system is operable to write to a file buffer corresponding to geospatial index data for a plurality of rows based on processing each given row of the plurality of rows. A new leaf node of a set of leaf nodes in a temporary leaf node buffer when the given row includes a geospatial object. When the temporary leaf node buffer is determined to have a number of leaf nodes meeting a predetermined threshold number of leaf nodes, a new tree-based index structure of a set of tree-based index structures of the geospatial index data is built via processing the temporary leaf node buffer. The geospatial index data is stored based on writing the file buffer to disk memory resources. A query is executed against a relational database table based on accessing the geospatial index data in the disk memory resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Ocient Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Anna Veselova, Greg R. Dhuse, Richard George Wendel, III, Benjamin Daniel Rabe
  • Patent number: 12117581
    Abstract: A method of predicting pore pressure based on seismic data can include obtaining seismic inversion data based in part on seismic data collected from a formation. The method also includes calculating a pore-pressure transform, wherein the pore-pressure transform comprises parameters derived using measured pore pressure data, upscaled sonic logs, and density logs, wherein the pore-pressure transform comprises an objective function to reduce unphysical variations in predicted pore pressure corresponding to depth. Additionally, the method can include adjusting the pore-pressure transform for sampling bias caused by pore pressure measurements being restricted to a plurality of lithologies by accounting for a difference between upscaled seismic velocities and average sonic velocities within each of the lithologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Colin Sayers, Lennert den Boer
  • Patent number: 12111439
    Abstract: A seabed object detection system is provided. The system can include a receiver array. The receiver array can include a plurality of receivers disposed on a plurality of streamers. The plurality of streamers can include a central port side streamer, a central starboard side streamer, an auxiliary port side streamer and an auxiliary starboard side streamer. The system can include a source array. The source array can include a plurality of sources. The plurality of sources can include a central port side source, a central starboard side source, an auxiliary port side source, and an auxiliary port side streamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Magseis FF LLC
    Inventor: Graham Gillott
  • Patent number: 12111440
    Abstract: Computing systems and methods for geosciences collaboration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for geosciences collaboration includes obtaining a first set of geosciences information from a first computer system of the plurality of computer systems; distributing the first set of geosciences information from the first computer system to at least a second computer system; receiving a user input from the second computer system of the plurality of computer systems, the user input entered manually by a user; providing the user input to the first computer system; in response to providing the user input to the first computer system, receiving a revised set of geosciences information from the first computer system; and repeating the receiving a user input, the providing the user input, and the receiving the revised set of geosciences information until the revised set of geosciences information is determined to satisfy accuracy criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Shashi Menon
  • Patent number: 12105238
    Abstract: A long-offset acquisition system includes a source vessel; a signal source coupled to the source vessel; and a long-offset streamer coupled to a survey vessel and including an aft-most receiver, an offset of the aft-most receiver being at least 12 km. A long-offset acquisition method includes towing a signal source with a source vessel; towing a first long-offset streamer with a survey vessel; and acquiring data with receivers of the first long-offset streamer. A long-offset acquisition method includes towing a signal source with a first survey vessel; towing a long-offset streamer with a second survey vessel, the long-offset streamer having a plurality of receivers; actuating the signal source while an offset between the signal source and at least one of the plurality of receivers is at least 15 km; and acquiring data with receivers of the long-offset streamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
    Inventors: Stig Rune Lennart Tenghamn, Neil Paddy, Manuel Beitz
  • Patent number: 12106779
    Abstract: Described is a system for semantically grounded video generation. In operation, the system receives a raw video frame of a scene from one or more sensors on an autonomous platform and then encodes the video into a low-dimensional representation of the scene. The low-dimensional representation is then decoded and fed into a controller model for the autonomous platform. Semantic concepts are extracted and then fed into a world model to predict state and action dynamics of the autonomous platform. A raw observation space is then fed into discriminator networks that operate on frames and videos to determine between real and synthetically generated content. The generative capability of one or more encoders and decoders are modified such that the discriminator networks are unable to distinguish between real and synthetically generated content. Finally, the system recursively generates semantically grounded videos using a conjunction of the world model and controller model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sasha Strelnikoff, Nicholas A. Ketz, Praveen K Pilly
  • Patent number: 12105241
    Abstract: Geologic modeling methods and systems are provided with a novel log segmentation approach and an improved conditioning technique for fitting geobody templates to associated well segments in multiple wells. One illustrative geologic modeling method embodiment includes: deriving a sequence of well segments from each logged well in a region of interest; associating well segments from different wells to form sets of associated well segments; populating a region of interest with geobodies by fitting a parameterized geobody template to each set of associated well segments; using the geobodies to specify a volumetric distribution of formation properties throughout the region of interest; and providing the volumetric distribution as a geologic model suitable for evaluating one or more well placement and production strategies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Mulin Cheng, Xiao-Hui Wu, Hayes F. Stripling, IV, Pengchuan Zhang, Tiangang Cui, John E. Mayhew
  • Patent number: 12099156
    Abstract: A method for processing seismic data includes receiving seismic data comprising seismic traces collected from a land-based or marine seismic array, applying a noise mitigation process to the seismic data to generate a first stack volume, identifying, using a machine-learning algorithm, one or more traces of the seismic traces as having a relatively high residual noise, after applying the noise mitigation process, in comparison to other traces of the seismic traces, mitigating noise in the one or more identified traces, and performing a wavefield reconstruction to generate a second stack volume after mitigating the noise in the one or more traces after mitigating the noise in the one or more identified traces, to interpolate a portion of the wavefield corresponding to where the one or more identified traces were located and mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nicolae Moldoveanu
  • Patent number: 12100276
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to computerized methods, systems and non-transitory computer-readable media for determining a plurality of regions of interest from an image of a scene for motion detection. The methods can include generating the regions of interest using image segmentation techniques and receiving user selection to designate one or more regions as motion detection zones. The methods can also automatically recommend motion detection zones. The methods can include subsequently capturing one or more images of a scene and performing motion detection in the one or more images of the scene using the designated motion detection zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacquilene Jacob
  • Patent number: 12086512
    Abstract: A method including obtaining, by a computer processor, at least one key log in each of a set of training wells located, at least partially, within a hydrocarbon reservoir, identifying a target formation bounding surface in each of the set of training wells, and generating an initial depth surface for the target formation bounding surface from the target formation bounding surface in each of the set of training wells. The method further including, determining from the initial depth surface an initial depth estimate of the target formation bounding surface at a location of a current well, forming an objective function based, at least in part on a correlation between each key log in each of the set of training wells, and each corresponding key log in the current well, and optimizing the objective function by varying a depth shift between each of the set of training wells and the current well, to determine an optimum depth shift that produces an extremum of the objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Marwah Al Ismail, Mokhles M. Mezghani, Mohammed Ali Al-Masrahy
  • Patent number: 12072459
    Abstract: A method for seismic processing includes extracting, using a first machine learning model, one or more seismic features from seismic data representing a subsurface domain, receiving one or more well logs representing one or more subsurface properties in the subsurface domain, and predicting, using a second machine learning model, the one or more subsurface properties in the subsurface domain at a location that does not correspond to an existing well based on the seismic data, the one or more well logs, and the one or more seismic features that were extracted from the seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haibin Di, Xiaoli Chen, Hiren Maniar, Aria Abubakar
  • Patent number: 12055035
    Abstract: A system and method detect an evolving sinkhole due to displacement and pose changes of a plurality of nodes distributed geographically. The system comprises a base station, a plurality of nodes, and a user device. The plurality of nodes are distributed geographically, with each node secured into the ground on the Earth's surface. A sensor senses a state of the nodes relative to the ground, including a displacement and pose changes of the nodes relative to the ground. The sensed states of the nodes used to generate a geophysical map of the ground, including the displacement and the pose change of at least one node due to an evolution of a sinkhole. An output device is configured to display the geophysical map and the sinkhole to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Rae Andrew Younger, Bodong Li
  • Patent number: 12050294
    Abstract: A method and system for generating and displaying a low frequency model for a seismic survey region are provided. The method and system may include defining a seismic survey geometry of the seismic survey region; processing seismic data to generate a stacked seismic data and well log data to obtain elastic attributes; importing stacked seismic data and processed well log data into the defined seismic survey geometry; generating envelope data using the stacked seismic data; generating a low frequency trace for each well; calculating a least-squares optimized coefficient model at each well location based upon the generated envelope data and the low frequency trace for each well; interpolating the coefficient model to the seismic survey geometry using a covariance technique and the imported stacked seismic data; and generating a three-dimensional low frequency model by inversion using the envelope data and the interpolated coefficient model for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yequan Chen, Fan Xia
  • Patent number: 12013508
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining an input gather regarding a geological region of interest. The method may further include obtaining parameterization data regarding a seismic processing operation. The parameterization data may correspond to a first set of process parameter values that are different from a second set of process parameter values that are used to generate the input gather. The method may further include generating a predicted output gather using a machine-learning model, the input gather, and the parameterization data. The machine-learning model may include an encoder model and a decoder model. The method may further include generating a seismic image of the geological region of interest using the predicted output gather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Robertus F. Hegge, Paul M. Zwartjes, Roald van Borselen
  • Patent number: 12006915
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a process for improving reporting of operational data of a wind turbine during operation thereof and a system for carrying out the process which may include a computer program for carrying out the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SCADA INTERNATIONAL A/S
    Inventor: Bo Lovmand
  • Patent number: 12006815
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring a wellbore object using a reflected pressure signal. The method discloses providing at least one pump for performing hydraulic fracturing or a source of hydraulic pulse so that pressure signal propagates along the wellbore and reflects from the borehole objects; providing pressure sensor at wellhead; preprocessing of registered reflected pressure signal and pump noise; transforming the registered reflected pressure signal and pump noise from the frequency domain into time-frequency representation with Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT), computing a pump noise mask; applying the pump noise mask to the STFT representation to obtain a filtered reflected pressure signal; processing of the filtered reflected pressure signal for determining the reflection time from the downhole object, calculating the depth of the downhole object from reflected pressure signal by multiplying of the reflection time by the pressure signal propagation velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Artem Valeryevich Kabannik
  • Patent number: 11977196
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically tracking multi-Z horizons within seismic volumes are provided. A surface from a plurality of surfaces identified at different depths for a multi-Z horizon within a seismic volume is selected. A seed point corresponding to the selected surface is determined. The selected surface is tracked over new data points through the seismic volume. Tracking each new data point involves comparing a depth of the new data point with depths associated with other surfaces and determining whether the depth of the new data point honors a geological boundary rule for maintaining a relative depth position of each of the plurality of surfaces within the multi-Z horizon, based on the comparison. When the depth of the new data point honors the rule, the selected surface is extended to include the new data point and, when it does not, the new data point is discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Jocelyn Chan, Nam Xuan Nguyen, Kainan Wang, Xuewei Tan
  • Patent number: 11970940
    Abstract: An induced earthquake evaluation method for hydraulic fracturing activated faults includes obtaining an induced earthquake evaluation unit, cumulative injection equivalent energy, induced earthquake probability of fault type, induced earthquake probability of fault distance, hydraulic fracturing fluid diffusion capacity in fractured formation, new effective fault stress after fracturing, formation fluid pressure change rate and cumulative released equivalent energy. The probability of induced earthquake by hydraulic fracturing can be obtained. The induced earthquake possibility of each evaluation unit or single well under different stages of hydraulic fracturing, different construction injection methods and production conditions can be quantitatively evaluated. The method provides a quantitative result that can provide data support for optimizing hydraulic fracturing and reducing induced earthquake hazards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chongqing Huadi Resources Environment Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Pei He, Ye Zhang, Jinxi Wang, Jianqiang Zhang, Jiankun Zhou, Xiaozhong Guo, Yanling Huang, Liming Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11953638
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for generating reservoir models including the SOC nature of the Earth's crust. The methods employ seismic emission tomography (SET) to generate three dimensional models of a formation providing permeability without the need for traditional reservoir modeling techniques and allowing for the identification of naturally-occurring permeability pathways that provide accurate and precise locations for the efficient recovery of hydrocarbons or other fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: G-O-Image, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Geiser
  • Patent number: 11953636
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to data acquisition units or nodes and more specifically to seismic data acquisition units or nodes for use in data gathering for ambient noise tomography (ANT). Some embodiments relate to a method for data acquisition, and systems employing one or more data acquisition units. Some embodiments relate to systems comprising one or more satellites in communication with one or more data acquisition units for communication to a remote server, for remote storage, and processing for creating sub-surface tomography images accessible to client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fleet Space Technologies Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Braeden James Borg, Matthew James Pearson
  • Patent number: 11947063
    Abstract: A method and system for picking first-break times for a seismic dataset are disclosed. The method includes generating a pre-processed seismic dataset and an initial refraction velocity model from the pre-stack seismic dataset and generating a first-break energy-enhanced seismic dataset using nonlinear beamforming applied to the pre-processed seismic dataset and the initial refraction velocity model. The methods further include estimating a refined refraction velocity model from the first-break energy-enhanced seismic dataset, and generating a post-processed seismic dataset from the refined refraction velocity model and first-break energy-enhanced seismic dataset. The methods still further include, for each pre-stack trace, determining a first-break time from the post-processed seismic dataset and the refined refraction velocity model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Yong Qing Chen
  • Patent number: 11947061
    Abstract: An earthquake event classification method using an attention-based neural network includes: preprocessing input earthquake data by centering; extracting a feature map by nonlinearly converting the preprocessed earthquake data through a plurality of convolution layers having three or more layers; measuring importance of a learned feature of the nonlinear-converted earthquake data based on an attention technique in which interdependence of channels of the feature map is modeled; correcting a feature value of the measured importance value through element-wise multiply with the learned feature map; performing down-sampling through max-pooling based on the feature value; and classifying an earthquake event by regularizing the down-sampled feature value. Accordingly, main core features inherent in many/complex data are extracted through attention-based deep learning to overcome the limitations of the existing micro earthquake detection technology, thereby enabling earthquake detection even in low SNR environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Hanseok Ko, Bon Hwa Ku
  • Patent number: 11940526
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for performing a vehicle image reconstruction by a sensing vehicle (SV) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of stepped-frequency-continuous-wave (SFCW) from target vehicle (TV); receiving signature waveforms in a different frequency range for the plurality of SFCWs; performing synchronization by using phase-difference-of-arrival (PDoA) based on the signature waveforms; reconstructing one or more virtual images of the TV; and deriving a real image from the one of more Virtual Image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Seung-Woo Ko, Kaibin Huang, Rui Wang, Zezhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11934752
    Abstract: A graphical user interface includes GUI elements configured for defining discretized base geometry data for a model of a physical system, receiving a first input representing a user instruction to add a perfectly matched layer to the model, receiving a second input representing the user selection of boundaries that define a base geometry, and receiving a third input representing extra geometry meshing instructions. Extra geometry line segment data is discretized representing an outward direction of a PML from the boundary according to the extra geometry meshing instructions. Weak form expressions representing a wave-related phenomena are formed based on received PML settings and physics settings parameterized using discretized base geometry data and discretized extra geometry data. Matrix data are generated based on the formed weak form expressions. A solution to a simulation of the wave-related phenomena of the model is generated based on the formed weak form expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: COMSOL AB
    Inventors: Arne Nordmark, Eduardo Fontes, Hans Rullgãrd, Henrik Sõnnerlind, Johan Öjemalm, Lars Langemyr, Daniel Bertilsson, Nils Malm, Johan Thaning, Eduardo Gonzalez, Niklas Rom, Simon Erlandsson
  • Patent number: 11927709
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a computer-implemented technique that includes generating, in a first portion of a graphical user interface (GUI), a first graphical element related to reflection seismic data of an area of interest. The technique further includes generating, in a second portion of the GUI, a second graphical element related to well structural data of the area of interest. The technique further includes generating, in a third portion of the GUI, a third graphical element that is based on the reflection seismic data and the well structural data. In embodiments, an alteration of the first graphical element or the second graphical element results in a concurrent alteration of the third graphical element. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Simon A. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11905821
    Abstract: A method for offset well analysis includes receiving offset well data collected from an offset well, the offset well data including data representing a trajectory of an offset well, receiving subject well data comprising a trajectory of at least a portion of a subject well, partitioning the trajectory of the offset well into a plurality of offset well segments, partitioning the trajectory of the subject well into a plurality of subject well segments, determining a distance between at least some of the plurality of offset well segments and at least some of the plurality of subject well segments, selecting the offset well based in part on the distance, and performing an offset well analysis using the offset well and the subject well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Zhernakov, Xiaotong Suo, Jose Celaya Galvan, Velizar Vesselinov, Neil Holger White Eklund
  • Patent number: 11899147
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an image of a subterranean region of interest are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a seismic dataset and a geological dip model for the subterranean region of interest and determining a set of input seismic gathers from the seismic dataset. The method further includes determining a central seismic gather and a set of neighboring seismic gathers in a vicinity of the central seismic gather from the set of seismic gathers, determining a set of dip-corrected neighboring seismic gathers based, at least in part, on the set of neighboring seismic gathers and a geological dip from the geological dip model, and determining a noise-attenuated central seismic gather by combining the dip-corrected neighboring seismic gathers and the central seismic gather. The method still further includes forming the image of the subterranean region of interest based, at least in part, on the noise-attenuated central seismic gather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Weihong Zhu, Hussain I. Hammad
  • Patent number: 11892578
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to geophysical exploration and seismic imaging, and more particularly to a seismic imaging method, system, and device based on pre-stack high-angle fast Fourier transform (FFT). The method includes: acquiring seismic data acquired during seismic exploration; extracting a common shot point gather from the seismic data followed by conversion into a frequency wavenumber domain common offset gather; calculating wave propagation angles; dividing an imaging region into a first region and a second region; solving constant coefficients of the first region and the second region; performing frequency-division layer-by-layer wavefield continuation on a frequency-wave number domain common offset gather to obtain imaging results at different depths and frequencies; subjecting the imaging results to integration followed by transformation to a spatial domain to obtain common offset imaging profiles; and subjecting the common offset imaging profiles to superposition obtain final imaging results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: China University of Petroleum (EAST CHINA)
    Inventors: Liyun Fu, Qingqing Li, Qizhen Du, Zhiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11887732
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods of selecting treatment parameters values for treating skin lesions. A device may establish a treatment parameter selection model using a training dataset. The training dataset may include a plurality of examples. Each example may include a sample image of an example skin lesion to which a treatment is administered using an applicator. Each example may include a first label indicating success or failure of the treatment. Each example may include a second label corresponding to treatment parameters defining the treatment. The device may identify an input image. The device may determine that the input image corresponds to a skin lesion based on visual characteristics of the input image. The device may apply the treatment parameter selection model to the input image to output a recommended treatment to apply. The device may store an association between the input image and the recommended treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Inventors: Allan C. Halpern, Steven Q. Wang, Douglas Comrie Canfield
  • Patent number: 11880012
    Abstract: A method for extracting a downgoing wavelet and attenuation parameters from VSP data, comprising: performing upgoing and downgoing P-waves separation processing on VSP data to obtain downgoing P-wave data; performing a FFT on seismic data with a preset time window length and cut from the downgoing P-wave data to obtain FFT transformed downgoing P-wave data and a multi-trace downgoing P-wave log spectrum; subtracting a downgoing wavelet log spectrum from the multi-trace downgoing P-wave log spectrum to obtain a wavelet-corrected multi-trace downgoing P-wave log spectrum; performing a correction and an inverse FFT on the FFT transformed downgoing P-wave data to obtain a downgoing wavelet; and obtaining attenuation parameters based on P-wave first arrival time and the parameters of the wavelet-corrected multi-trace downgoing P-wave log spectrum. Also provided are an apparatus for extracting a downgoing wavelet and attenuation parameters from VSP data and a computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanpeng Li, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11874419
    Abstract: A method is claimed for automatically transforming sonic well logs from a depth domain to a seismic two-way travel-time domain. The method includes obtaining a training well with a measured sonic well log in the depth domain and a borehole seismic dataset in the depth domain and obtaining an application well with only a measured sonic well log in the depth domain. The method further includes training a network to predict a transformed sonic well log for the training well based, at least in part, on the measured sonic well log and the borehole seismic dataset in the training well, and predicting with the network, the transformed sonic well log in the application well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Philippe Georges Christophe Nivlet, Robert James Smith, Nasher Muqbel AlBinHassan
  • Patent number: 11867856
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include obtaining seismic data acquired in a time-domain for a subterranean region of interest. The method may further include obtaining a property model for the subterranean region of interest. The method may further include determining one or more time shifts using a segment dynamic image warping function based on the seismic data and the property model. The method may further include determining an adjoint source operator using the derived time shift and one-way wave equation. The method may further include updating the property model using a gradient solver in a data-domain reflection traveltime inversion. The method may further include outputting the updated property model for the subterranean region of interest. The method may further include generating a seismic image for the subterranean region of interest using the updated property model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Lu Liu, Yubing Li, Weiguang He
  • Patent number: 11867857
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for updating a seismic velocity model of a subterranean region of interest. The method includes receiving an observed seismic dataset and a seismic velocity model, and generating a simulated seismic dataset based on the seismic velocity model and the geometry of the observed seismic dataset, wherein each dataset is composed of a plurality of seismic traces. The method further includes determining a transformed observed seismic dataset and a transformed simulated seismic dataset by determining the instantaneous frequency of at least one member of the plurality of observed seismic traces; and at least one member of the plurality of simulated seismic traces. The method still further includes forming an objective function based on the transformed observed seismic dataset and the transformed simulated seismic dataset and determining an updated seismic velocity model based on an extremum of the objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Weiguang He, Yubing Li, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11860327
    Abstract: A method for verticalizing recorded seismic data, the method including recording first data with a particle motion sensor, wherein the particle motion sensor is located on a streamer, and the particle motion sensor is configured to be insensitive to a direct current, recording second data with a gravity motion sensor, wherein the gravity motion sensor is also located on the stream, and the gravity motion sensor is configured to be sensitive to the direct current and temporally synchronous to the particle motion sensor, selecting a cost function that associates corresponding values of the first data and the second data, determining a misalignment angle from maximizing the cost function, wherein the misalignment angle describes a misalignment between corresponding axes of the particle motion sensor and the gravity motion sensor, and correcting seismic data recorded by the particle motion sensor based on the misalignment angle so that the corrected seismic data is verticalized with regard to gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SERCEL
    Inventors: Viktor Smirnov, Clémence Berthonaud, Julien Ribette