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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2008
Jose J. Sequeira, Jr., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Yao-chou Cheng, Houston, TX (US);
Jose J. Sequeira, Jr., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Yao-Chou Cheng, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method for reservoir surveillance using a three-dimensional Earth Model () to improve and expedite the surveillance at all scales of investigation (field, reservoir, fault compartment, and individual well) and at all time steps (minutes, hours, days, months, years). The new method allows users to rapidly identify anomalous field and well performance () and provides capability to investigate root causes of the performance deviation from predicted (). Animated co-rendered displays () of the earth model and actual () and simulated () production data enable the user to interactively determine model adjustments back at the basic level of the Earth Model, which are then propagated to a geologic model () and then to the reservoir simulator () to update it () in a physically constrained way.