Bp Corporation North America Inc.

Chunlei Chu

John Theodore Etgen

Adrian O'Neill

Casey Denny

Jeremy Eade

A method for planning a subject well includes receiving a well profile for the subject well, the well profile comprising a plurality of sets of attributes, each corresponding to one of a plurality of depths of the subject well; categorizing each of the sets of attributes as being in a first zone or in a second zone to generate a pivoted well profile, where the pivoted well profile includes a number of the sets of attributes in the first zone and a number of the sets of attributes in the second zone; comparing the pivoted well profile of the subject well to a library of well profiles; identifying, based on the comparison, an analog well from the library, where a difference between the analog well profile and the pivoted well profile is less than a threshold; and providing an indication of the identified analog well.

Method and apparatus for identifying analog wells

A method for use in seismic exploration comprises: accessing a set of seismic data representative of a subterranean geological formation and a subsurface attribute model of the subterranean geological formation; performing a wavefield extrapolation on the seismic data in the subsurface attribute model; applying the time-shift extended imaging condition to the extrapolated wavefields; forming shot-indexed, time shift gathers for each image pixel of the subsurface attribute model from the conditioned extrapolated wavefields; adaptively focusing the gathers; and stacking the adaptively focused gathers; and imaging the subterranean geological formation from the stacked, adaptively focused gathers. The method may, in some aspects, be realized by a computing apparatus programmed to perform the method or as a set of instructions encoded on a non-transitory program storage medium that, when executed by a computing apparatus, perform the method.

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Chunlei Chu