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Patent No.:

US 9684092 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014

Methods for estimating resource density by integrating seismic methods with fluid density and pressure in shale resource plays

Applicant:

Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Lubomyr Taras Bryndzia, Houston, TX (US);

Saad Jamil Saleh, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Calum Ian Macaulay, Houston, TX (US);

Neil Robert Braunsdorf, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Theodericus Johannes Henricus Smit, Rijswijk, NL;

Ronny Hofmann, Houston, TX (US);

Brian Harvey Hoffe, Calgary, CA;

Ezequiel Francisco Gonzalez San Miguel, Katy, TX (US);

Assignee:

SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Kara E Geisel

Assistant Examiner:

Maurice Smith

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/44 (2006.01); G01V 3/30 (2006.01); G01V 8/02 (2006.01); G01V 11/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/65 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01); G01V 3/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/30 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01); G01N 21/65 (2013.01); G01V 3/38 (2013.01); G01V 8/02 (2013.01); G01V 11/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of evaluating a shale source rock formation comprising: determining in situ partial pressures of a light hydrocarbon utilizing a downhole Raman tool and producing a map of spatial and vertical variations of the in situ partial pressures of the light hydrocarbon in the shale source rock formation.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Bryndzia, Lubomyr. (2017). Methods for estimating resource density by integrating seismic methods with fluid density and pressure in shale resource plays (U.S. Patent No. 9684092). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9684092

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