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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Total SA, Courbevoie, FR;

Inventors:

Pierre Biver, Pau, FR;

Richard Labourdette, Pau, FR;

Assignee:

TOTAL SA, Courbevoie, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/00 (2009.01); G01V 1/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G01V 1/30 (2013.01); G01V 99/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

This invention relates to a method for determining a location of karst caves in a geological model. The method comprising for each current point of a set of points of a closed space of the model, determining a distance value; receiving an average value; and for each current point of the set of points of the closed space, determining a presence of caves for the current point. The determination at the presence of caves depends at least on the received average value and on the distance value determined for the current point. A collapse procedure can also be implemented as described in the description.


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