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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Statoil Petroleum As, Stavanger, NO;
Inventors:
Sheng Xu, Katy, TX (US);
Hongbo Zhou, Katy, TX (US);
Assignee:
STATOIL PETROLEUM AS, Stavanger, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/30 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/30 (2013.01); G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G01V 2210/51 (2013.01); G01V 2210/626 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is described embodiments relating to a method of determining a wave field in an anisotropic subsurface of the Earth. The method includes numerically solving a decoupled quasi-acoustic single wave mode wave equation based on spatially varied anisotropic parameters, to determine the wave field in the anisotropic subsurface.