Michael D Greene

US Patent:

20200200935, Jun 25, 2020

Filed:

Dec 20, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/227944

Inventors:

- San Ramon CA, US
Michael Greene - Houston TX, US
Mason Edwards - Houston TX, US
Reynaldo Cardona - Houston TX, US

International Classification:

G01V 1/48
G01V 13/00

Abstract:

Methods and systems for calibrating depth in a well to seismic data in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain well data corresponding to the well in the subsurface volume of interest; convert the well data to converted well data; obtain a seismic trace and a corresponding wavelet; generate a transform model; apply the transform model to the converted well data to transform the converted well data into transformed well data; apply the corresponding wavelet to the transformed well data to generate a modified signal; generate a correspondence between the modified signal and the seismic trace; repeat one or more steps to select a given modified signal; and calibrate the well data to the seismic trace.

US Patent:

20160131781, May 12, 2016

Filed:

Nov 12, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/539630

Inventors:

Yonghe J. SUN - Cypress TX, US
Michael Gordon Greene - Sugar Land TX, US

Assignee:

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. - San Ramon CA

International Classification:

G01V 1/28

Abstract:

A method is described for of creating a high-resolution velocity model of a geological medium that includes generating a long-wavelength anisotropic velocity model using tomographic inversion of seismic data gathers and combining the long-wavelength velocity model with an attenuation model. The method further includes performing prestack depth migration on the seismic data gathers using the long-wavelength velocity and attenuation model to produce seismic image gathers, applying a dip-consistent filter to the seismic image gathers, and transforming the filtered seismic image gathers to the time domain. The method further includes generating a full-band impedance model by performing impedance inversion of the time-domain filtered seismic image gathers using the long-wavelength velocity and attenuation model. The full-band impedance or velocity model is calibrated in the frequency domain in a manner independent of the spatial coordinates. The full-band impedance or velocity model is used for detecting fluid pressure anomalies in the geological medium.