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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2008
Applicants:
Ramesh Neelamani, Houston, TX (US);
David R. Converse, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Ramesh Neelamani, Houston, TX (US);
David R. Converse, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method for identifying geologic features, such as hydrocarbon indicators, from geophysical data, such as seismic data, by taking a curvelet transform of the data. After the curvelet representation of the data is computed (), selected geophysical data attributes and their interdependencies are extracted (), from which geological features may be identified (), either from attribute data volumes that are created or directly from the curvelet representation.