G01V2210/66

METHOD OF QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION ON STRUCTURAL DISTURBANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF PRESENT IN-SITU GEO-STRESS IN DEEP SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS
20230031116 · 2023-02-02 ·

Disclosed is a method of quantitatively evaluating structural disturbance characteristics of present in-situ geo-stress in deep shale gas reservoirs, including: measuring geomechanics key parameters of key wells in different tectonic zones within a study area; performing interpretations of single-well profile rock mechanics and continuity of the in-situ geo-stress in magnitude and direction; establishing a geological model; performing anisotropic sequential Gaussian stochastic simulation to obtain three-dimensional (3D) heterogeneous rock mechanics parameter field distribution; performing prediction of distribution of geo-stress states in the study area, and calculating a stress structural index and stress disturbance factor of the target layer and a rotation degree of a maximum horizontal principal stress; and performing quantitative evaluation on an in-situ geo-stress structural disturbance and mapping.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING A SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL

Methods and systems are disclosed for updating a seismic velocity model of a subterranean region of interest. The method includes receiving an observed seismic dataset and a seismic velocity model, and generating a simulated seismic dataset based on the seismic velocity model and the geometry of the observed seismic dataset, wherein each dataset is composed of a plurality of seismic traces. The method further includes determining a transformed observed seismic dataset and a transformed simulated seismic dataset by determining the instantaneous frequency of at least one member of the plurality of observed seismic traces; and at least one member of the plurality of simulated seismic traces. The method still further includes forming an objective function based on the transformed observed seismic dataset and the transformed simulated seismic dataset and determining an updated seismic velocity model based on an extremum of the objective function.

GEOLOGICAL ANALOG RECOMMENDATION WORKFLOW USING REPRESENTATIVE EMBEDDINGS

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a well analog recommendation system. The well analog recommendation system may generate numerical representations indicative of text-based descriptions within a well report and/or well log associated with a well. Further, the well analog recommendation system may generate a well analog output that may include one or more text-based characterizations associated with one or more additional wells that are determined based on the numerical representation. For example, the well analog recommendation system may compare the numerical representation of the well to one or more numerical representations associated with the one or more additional wells and output the one or more text-based characterizations when the numerical representations are approximately equal or above a threshold.

THREE DIMENSIONAL STRATIGRAPHIC MODELS THAT BEST EXPLAIN MEASURED LOGS BY LEVERAGING VECTOR QUANTIZATION VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER AND DATA CLUSTERING
20230088055 · 2023-03-23 ·

Methods and platforms for allowing efficient identification of 3D stratigraphic models that explain observed log data.

METHOD FOR VALIDATING ROCK FORMATIONS COMPACTION PARAMETERS USING GEOMECHANICAL MODELING

A method is claimed that includes obtaining a measured present-day value of at least one parameter for each member of a set of unvalidated geological layers arranged in order of increasing depth and iteratively selecting a member of the set as a current layer. For each current layer in turn, the method further determines an estimated archaic value of at least one parameter of the current layer based on its measured present-day value by applying an alternating cycle of decompaction followed by geomechnical modeling to predict a present-day value of the parameter of the current layer based on its estimated archaic value. The method still further determines a validated archaic value of at least one parameter of each current layer based on a difference between the predicted and the measured present-day values. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for validating the archaic value for each layer is claimed.

MACHINE LEARNING DRIVEN DISPERSION CURVE PICKING
20230084403 · 2023-03-16 ·

A method for modeling a subterranean volume includes receiving seismic data comprising a signal, generating a semblance in the frequency-wavenumber domain for the seismic data, wherein the semblance represents a coherence of the signal in the frequency-wavenumber domain, extracting one or more wave energy modes in the semblance using a machine learning model trained to identify dispersion curves in the semblance based on a visible characteristic of the dispersion curves, and generating a model representing surface wave propagation based at least in part on the identified one or more wave energy modes.

High-resolution Seismic Fault Detection with Adversarial Neural Networks and Regularization
20230078158 · 2023-03-16 ·

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for high-resolution seismic fault detection by means of an adversarial neural network, including following steps of: training a target adversarial neural network based on a preset training sample set, so as to obtain a trained target adversarial neural network, wherein the preset training sample set includes seismic data and fault labels, the target adversarial neural network includes: a segmentation module, a feature fusion module, and a discriminator module, the segmentation module is a module configured for obtaining a fault feature based on the preset training sample set, and the feature fusion module is a module configured for fusing the fault feature and the seismic data into a global feature map; and performing seismic fault detection on a target seismic image based on the trained target adversarial neural network.

FORMATION EVALUATION BASED ON SEISMIC HORIZON MAPPING WITH MULTI-SCALE OPTIMIZATION
20230085023 · 2023-03-16 ·

A least one seismic attribute is determined for each voxel of the seismic volume. A first horizon is selected for mapping and a sparse global grid is generated which includes the horizon, at least one constraint point identifying the horizon, and a number of points having a depth in the seismic volume. A value of at least one seismic attribute is determined for each point and their depths are adjusted based on the value of the seismic attribute. A map of the horizon can be generated based on the adjusted depths. Multiple local grids can be generated based on the sparse global grid, and the depths of the local grid points adjusted to generate a map of the horizon at voxel level resolution. The seismic volume can be mapped into multiple horizons, where previously mapped horizons can function as constraints on the sparse global grid.

Method and system for modeling a subsurface region

A method and system are described for creating subsurface models that involve the use of isomorphic reversible scanning curve for simulating hysteresis in reservoir simulators. The method includes constructing a subsurface model for a subsurface region and using the subsurface model in simulations and in hydrocarbon operations, such as hydrocarbon exploration, hydrocarbon development, and/or hydrocarbon production.

Faulted geological structures having unconformities

A method can include providing a mesh of a geologic environment that includes conformable sequences and an unconformity; interpolating an implicit function defined with respect to the mesh to provide values for the implicit function; and identifying an iso-surface based on a portion of the values where the iso-surface represents the unconformity as residing between two of the conformable sequences. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.