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Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2021
Applicants:

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

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Shingo Watanabe, Houston, TX (US);

Jostein Natvig, Asker, NO;

Pavel Tomin, Houston, TX (US);

Assignees:

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 43/00 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/00 (2013.01); E21B 43/00 (2013.01); E21B 2200/20 (2020.05); G01V 99/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A subsurface representation may define subsurface configuration of a subsurface region. A grid connectivity graph for the subsurface representation may include (1) nodes that represent cells within the subsurface representation, and (2) edges between the nodes that represent connectivity between the cells within the subsurface representation. The grid connectivity graph may be filtered to remove edges that do not satisfy a connectivity criterion. The filtered grid connectivity graph may be used to compute a linear solver preconditioner that improves the performance of the subsurface simulation.


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