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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:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Amit Kumar, Houston, TX (US);
Michael Loyd Brewer, Katy, TX (US);
Dominic Camilleri, Houston, TX (US);
Steven Ward, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/00 (2009.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/48 (2006.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); E21B 47/00 (2013.01); E21B 47/006 (2020.05); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); G01V 1/48 (2013.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01);
Abstract
Hybrid 3D geocellular grids are generated to represent a subset of a natural fracture network ('NFN') directly in the simulation, while the remainder of the NFN is approximated by a multi-continuum formulation. The resulting output is a 3D geocellular grid that possesses a higher level of mesh resolution in those areas surrounding the first fracture subsets, and lower mesh resolution in the areas of the second fracture subset.