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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 07, 2014
Matthias Imhof, Katy, TX (US);
Ethan Nowak, McKinney, TX (US);
Pavel Dimitrov, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A fully automated method for correcting errors in one interpretation () of seismic data based on comparison to at least one other interpretation () of the same subsurface region. The errors may occur in any feature of the seismic data volume, for example a horizon, surface, fault, polyline, fault stick, or geo-body. In some embodiments of the invention, an error may be a hole in a horizon (), and the whole is patched by a piece of a horizon in another interpretation (). In an alternative embodiment of the invention, a single interpretation may be used to repair itself, for example by identifying similarly shaped, adjacent horizons (), and merging them ().