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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2014
Jan Meredith Vermilye, Lyons, CO (US);
Charles John Sicking, Plano, TX (US);
Ross G. Peebles, Houston, TX (US);
Laird Berry Thompson, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Amanda Jean Klaus, Boulder, CO (US);
Peter Anderson Geiser, Lyons, CO (US);
Jan Meredith Vermilye, Lyons, CO (US);
Charles John Sicking, Plano, TX (US);
Ross G. Peebles, Houston, TX (US);
Laird Berry Thompson, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Amanda Jean Klaus, Boulder, CO (US);
Peter Anderson Geiser, Lyons, CO (US);
Seismic Global Ambient, LLC, Missouri City, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention comprises a method for mapping a volume of the Earth's subsurface encompassing a selected path within said volume, comprising dividing the volume of the Earth's subsurface into a three-dimensional grid of voxels and transforming detected seismic signals representing seismic energy originating from said volume of the Earth's subsurface when no induced fracturing activity is occurring along said selected path and conducted to a recording unit for recording into signals representing energy originating from the voxels included in said grid of voxels, and utilizing said transformed seismic signals to estimate spatially continuous flow paths for reservoir fluids through said volume of the Earth's subsurface to said selected path.