Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Services Petroliers Schlumberger

Schlumberger Holdings Limited

David Mack Endres

HongQian Karen Lu

Eric Jonathan Schoen

Horacio R Bouzas

Steven Brent Assa

George William Celniker

Kermit Graf

Mark Hall

James C Pickens

Yann Cudennec

A method is disclosed for sensing fault-fault relationships, comprising: automatically sensing interrelationships among faults, and presenting a final model including a fault-fault intersection curve and one fault truncated at the curve to an interpreter representing the interrelationships among faults.

Method for interactive automation of fault modeling including a method for intelligently sensing fault-fault relationships

A system and method of modeling a geological body in a contemporary formation is presented that includes constructing a geological object based on an original depositional paleo-space associated with the contemporary formation, and copying the geological object, transforming the copy of the geological object based on a deformation model of the contemporary formation using acquired data, the transforming allowing modeling of the deformed formation geological body and a lateral extent spanning a plurality of fault blocks.

Modeling geologic objects in faulted formations

A method, computer system or computer program is provided for interactively constructing, editing, rendering and manipulating geoscience models, including aggregating the functionality of a geometry system and a graphics system, enforcing consistency between the geometry system and the graphics system, and interfacing the geometry system and the graphics system to an application through an integration layer. State machines are also provided that enable updating of only those graphics objects whose geometry or topology have been changed and that are specified as visible by the user, thus increasing performance. A scenegraph construction technique is also provided to reduce memory requirements and further enhance performance. A material property framework is provided, among other things, to communicate changes in the geometry or topology to aggregate objects which then determine which graphics objects are affected by the changes and which graphics objects are to be updated.

Method, apparatus and system for constructing and maintaining scenegraphs for interactive feature-based geoscience geometric modeling

The invention features a method, computer system, and computer program for analyzing geological data stored on computer-readable media, including organizing the data to represent a plurality of sub-regions and a feature, and classifying the feature into a subset of the plurality of sub-regions. The method, computer system, and computer program analyze geological data stored on computer-readable media, including organizing the data to represent a plurality of sub-regions, and editing the sub-regions. The method, computer system, and computer program analyze geological data stored on computer-readable media, including organizing the data into a database, which includes a geometry part and a separate design part. The method, computer system, and computer program includes preserving the shape of a feature during classification and editing. The method, computer system, and computer program organize geological data to represent a region and subdivide the region into a first sub-region and a second sub-region with a boundary at a first location. The method, computer system, and computer program analyze geological data stored on computer-readable media, comprising organizing the data to represent a plurality of sub-regions; attaching a material property to each of the plurality of sub-regions; editing one sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions to produce a second plurality of sub-regions; and propagating the material property from the one sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions to the second plurality of sub-regions.

Modeling geological structures and properties

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David Mack Endres