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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:
May. 04, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2018
Applicant:

Ifp Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;

Inventors:

Youri Hamon, Chatou, FR;

Mickael Barbier, Ales, FR;

Didier Granjeon, Le Vesinet, FR;

Benoit Chauveau, Carrieres sur Seine, FR;

Assignee:

IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 41/00 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); E21B 49/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); E21B 49/02 (2013.01); G01V 99/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention is a method of exploiting hydrocarbons within a sedimentary basin, by stratigraphic simulation coupled with a hydrologic model and a diagenetic model. A gridded representation of the basin, comprising at least a mineralogical composition and a porosity within each cell, is determined by means of a stratigraphic simulator for at least one time step. Then, at least one hydrologic zone is delimited using a hydrologic model, and at least one chemical composition of the fluids and a direction of circulation of the fluids are determined in each cell located in the zone. At least the chemical composition of the fluids, the mineralogical composition and the porosity are then updated in each cell of the gridded representation with a diagenetic model comprising a hydrologic flux balance, established using at least the directions of circulation of the fluids and from which a cell visiting order is determined for the fluids.


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