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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2013
Xiaoxia Xu, Houston, TX (US);
Enru Liu, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Dominique Gillard, Houston, TX (US);
Yaping Zhu, Katy, TX (US);
Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Houston, TX (US);
Fuping Zhou, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Xiaoxia Xu, Houston, TX (US);
Enru Liu, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Dominique Gillard, Houston, TX (US);
Yaping Zhu, Katy, TX (US);
Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Houston, TX (US);
Fuping Zhou, Sugar Land, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method to predict rock strength by directly inverting for petrophysical properties. In one embodiment, seismic data is received or obtained from a seismic survey (step). The seismic data are then conditioned (step) in order to prepare them for an inversion process (step). The inversion process has an embedded rock physics model that allows the inversion to be formulated based upon, and thereby outputting or calculating (step), petrophysical properties. Rock strength data may then be calculated from the petrophysical properties (step).