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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Applicants:
Jianchun Dai, Houston, TX (US);
Annabelle Kania, Houston, TX (US);
Cengiz Esmersoy, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Ling Duan, Katy, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jianchun Dai, Houston, TX (US);
Annabelle Kania, Houston, TX (US);
Cengiz Esmersoy, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Ling Duan, Katy, TX (US);
Assignee:
WesternGeco L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method to predict tars and tar sands in petroleum exploration and production in a subsurface volume by building a viscoelastic property model of the volume using rock behavior including tars together with seismic inversion to derive a lithology volume identifying tars.