Westerngeco L.l.p.

Annabelle Kania

Cengiz Esmersoy

Raj Banerjee

Peter Gerhard Tilke

Andrew Hawthorn

Maurice Nessim

Jeffrey Spath

Sudhendu Kashikar

Jianchun Dai

R K Michael Thambynayagam

Gregory P Grove

Nader Dutta

Mark Egan

Ling Duan

Joerg H Meyer

Christopher Hopkins

A method for optimizing drilling operations. The method includes providing an earth model of a volume having a well, obtaining petrotechnical data about the volume while drilling the well, comparing the petrotechnical data with the earth model, updating the earth model with the petrotechnical data based on the comparison, and modifying a drilling plan of the well using the updated earth model.

Optimizing drilling operations using petrotechnical data

A method to predict tars and tar sands in petroleum exploration and production in a subsurface volume by building a viscoelastic property model of the volume using rock behavior including tars together with seismic inversion to derive a lithology volume identifying tars.

Tar estimation

A system and method for performing an adaptive drilling operation is provided. The method involves obtaining data prior to drilling, constructing a base model with a base model unit from data obtained prior to drilling, constructing an overburden posterior model with an overburden model unit using the base model and data obtained from overburden drilling, constructing a reservoir posterior model with a reservoir model unit using the overburden posterior model and the data obtained from reservoir drilling and updating drilling operation based on the models.

System and method for performing an adaptive drilling operation

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Annabelle Kania