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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
May. 06, 2010
Krishnan Kumaran, Raritan, NJ (US);
Jingbo Wang, New York, NY (US);
Stefan Hussenoeder, Sugarland, TX (US);
Dominique G. Gillard, Houston, TX (US);
Guy F. Medema, Magnolia, TX (US);
Fred W. Schroeder, Tomball, TX (US);
Robert L. Brovey, League City, TX (US);
Pavel Dimitrov, Houston, TX (US);
Matthew S. Casey, Houston, TX (US);
Krishnan Kumaran, Raritan, NJ (US);
Jingbo Wang, New York, NY (US);
Stefan Hussenoeder, Sugarland, TX (US);
Dominique G. Gillard, Houston, TX (US);
Guy F. Medema, Magnolia, TX (US);
Fred W. Schroeder, Tomball, TX (US);
Robert L. Brovey, League City, TX (US);
Pavel Dimitrov, Houston, TX (US);
Matthew S. Casey, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method for identifying geologic features from geophysical or attribute data using windowed principal component (), or independent component, or diffusion mapping () analysis. Subtle features are made identifiable in partial or residual data volumes. The residual data volumes () are created by () eliminating data not captured by the most prominent principal components (). The partial data volumes are created by () projecting the data () on to selected principal components (). Geologic features may also be identified from pattern analysis () or anomaly volumes () generated with a variable-scale data similarity matrix (). The method is suitable for identifying physical features indicative of hydrocarbon potential.