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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2013
Applicants:
Marc Holland, Mainz, DE;
Wouter E. Van Der Zee, Voorburg, NL;
Xiaomei Zhang, Utrecht, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/48 (2006.01); G01V 11/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 47/022 (2012.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 11/00 (2013.01); E21B 43/26 (2013.01); E21B 47/02208 (2013.01); G01V 1/288 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method for constructing a fracture network includes: receiving seismic data collected from a stimulation operation in an earth formation, the seismic data including seismic event data including a first seismic event associated with a first time increment and a second seismic event associated with a subsequent second time increment; and constructing a fracture network model. The model is constructed by: constructing an initial portion of the model based on the first seismic event; and subsequently updating the initial portion of the model based on the second seismic event.