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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. 21, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Chevron U.s.a. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shauna Kaye Oppert, Houston, TX (US);

Jose I. Adachi, Houston, TX (US);

James E. Sabolcik, Kingwood, TX (US);

Assignee:

CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., San Ramon, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/00 (2009.01); G06F 30/17 (2020.01); G06F 30/23 (2020.01); G06F 111/10 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G06F 30/17 (2020.01); G06F 30/23 (2020.01); G06F 2111/10 (2020.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of generating a self-consistent earth model are provided. One embodiment comprises: a) building a structured geologic; b) generating a mineralogy volume; c) generating a porosity volume and a density volume; d) generating a pressure volume; e) generating a geophysical property volume comprising a P-wave velocity volume and a S-wave velocity volume, a relationship between P-wave velocity and S-wave velocity, or any combination thereof; f) generating mechanical elastic properties based on (i) a static to dynamic elastic property relationship and (ii) the geophysical property volume, the relationship between P-wave velocity and S-wave velocity, or any combination thereof; and g) performing mechanical earth modeling using the mechanical elastic properties, the density volume, and the pressure volume to generate a self-consistent earth model.


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