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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Geoffrey A. Dorn, Broomfield, CO (US);
William S. Hammon, Iii, Boulder, CO (US);
James A. Carlson, Boulder, CO (US);
Geoffrey A. Dorn, Broomfield, CO (US);
William S. Hammon, III, Boulder, CO (US);
James A. Carlson, Boulder, CO (US);
Terraspark Geosciences, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A process that assists with the identification of potential hydrocarbon deposits that includes performing a structural interpretation of a three-dimensional seismic volume, transforming the three-dimensional seismic volume into a stratal-slice volume, performing a stratigraphic interpretation of the stratal-slice volume which includes the extracting of bounding surfaces and faults and transforming the stratal-slice volume into the spatial domain. As illustrated in FIGS., b and c, an exemplary seismic volume before Domain Transformation is presented in FIG., interpreted horizons and faults used in the transformation are presented in FIG., and the Domain Transformed stratal-slice volume is presented in FIG.. The input seismic volume in FIG.has deformations associated with syn- and post-depositional faulting. The output Domain Transformed volume (FIG.) is substantially free of deformations.