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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Winkfield-Windsor, GB;
Stephen Alexander Hope, Staines, GB;
John Fuller, Farnham, GB;
Melissa Suman, Windsor, GB;
Thomas Hantschel, Aldenhoven, DE;
Michael DE Lind Van Wijngaarden, Aachen, DE;
Ian David Bryant, Houston, TX (US);
Rodney Laver, Crawley Down, GB;
Nikolaos Constantinos Koutsabeloulis, Winkfield-Windsor, GB;
Stephen Alexander Hope, Staines, GB;
John Fuller, Farnham, GB;
Melissa Suman, Windsor, GB;
Thomas Hantschel, Aldenhoven, DE;
Michael De Lind Van Wijngaarden, Aachen, DE;
Ian David Bryant, Houston, TX (US);
Rodney Laver, Crawley Down, GB;
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a system and method for integrating petroleum system and geomechanical computer models for use in oil and gas exploration. In one embodiment, the invention provides a petroleum system model capable of analyzing data relating to a subterranean formation and calculating the geometry and geochemistry of each layer of the formation through geologic time. The present invention also provides a geomechanical model in communication with the petroleum system model such that information concerning each layer of the subterranean formation may be shared and cross-referenced as an iterative operation prior to the analysis of subsequent layers. At each step of the iterative operation, results are calculated, validated, and cross-referenced in order to produce improved reliability estimates of petroleum charge and mechanical seal integrity for the subterranean formation.