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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:
Nov. 22, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);

Inventor:

Hao Huang, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G01V 1/30 (2006.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01); G01V 1/34 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/302 (2013.01); G01V 1/282 (2013.01); G01V 1/345 (2013.01); G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G01V 2210/642 (2013.01); G01V 2210/643 (2013.01);
Abstract

Geologic modeling methods and systems disclosed herein employ an improved simulation meshing technique. One or more illustrative geologic modeling methods may comprise: obtaining a geologic model representing a faulted subsurface region in physical space; providing a set of background cells that encompass one or more partial faults within the subsurface region; defining a pseudo-extension from each unterminated edge of said one or more partial faults to a boundary of a corresponding background cell in said set; using the pseudo-extensions and the background cell boundaries to partition the subsurface region into sub-regions; deriving a simulation mesh in each sub-region based on the horizons in each sub-region; and outputting the simulation mesh.


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