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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2008
Kelly G. Walker, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Timothy A. Chartrand, Spring, TX (US);
Paul A. Dunn, Houston, TX (US);
Kelly G. Walker, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Timothy A. Chartrand, Spring, TX (US);
Paul A. Dunn, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for segmenting geobodies extracted from three-dimensional geophysical survey data volumes. In one embodiment, the invention involves (a) obtaining a plurality of data elements, respectively corresponding to three-dimensional locations in a subsurface region, and generating a data volume consisting of discrete cells from the plurality of data elements (); (b) identifying an initial geobody corresponding to a potential hydrocarbon reservoir within the data volume by grouping cells in the data volume according to a selected connectivity criterion (); (c) selecting a rule () that characterizes stratigraphically reasonable geobodies (e.g. they cannot vertically overlap); and (d) in response to a determination that the initial geobody does not conform to the rule, segmenting the initial geobody into a plurality of fundamental geobodies via processing the data elements with an automated segmentation routine, wherein the fundamental geobodies each conform to the rule ().