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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:
John Etgen, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
John Etgen, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01); G01V 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G01V 1/003 (2013.01); G01V 2210/661 (2013.01); G01V 2210/665 (2013.01);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention is a method for building geologic/stratigraphic models of the earth for the purposes of numerical simulations of phenomena of interest, such as seismic wave propagation, or fluid flow, reservoir simulation, etc. An embodiment of the invention uses stochastic methods to create material property models that have desired statistical properties by numerically simulating deposition of geological layers. The method can create multiple material parameter models from numerical implementations of a variety of geological processes.