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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:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2001
Scott A. Runnestrand, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Dennis B. Neff, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Kevin H. Northey, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, there is disclosed herein a method of seismic interpretation that is designed to improve the quality and speed with which an explorationist can pick and interpret a seismic section or volume. The instant invention utilizes unseeded picking to create a collection of patches or areas of similar-character reflector picks. The method is unsupervised initially and builds an output database that preferably contains the time and amplitude of each “assigned” event, an assigned event being a seismic reflection that is determined to be similar in some sense to its neighboring traces. Then, during subsequent interpretation the explorationist quickly builds an interpretation by utilizing and selecting from the pre-assembled collections of similar traces stored in the database.