Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mapping a fracture geometry
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Application No.: US17002267Application Date: 2020-08-25
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Publication No.: US11371335B2Publication Date: 2022-06-28
- Inventor: Hyung Tae Kwak , Mahmoud Elsayed , Ammar El-Husseiny , Mohamed Mahmoud
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company , King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran; SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company,King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company,King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran; SA Dhahran
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: E21B47/00
- IPC: E21B47/00 ; E21B49/02 ; G01V3/32 ; E21B47/002 ; E21B47/26 ; E21B49/00 ; E21B43/26

Abstract:
A fracture geometry mapping method includes determining a value of a diffusive tortuosity in a first direction in a first rock sample from a subterranean formation with one or more hardware processors; determining a value of a diffusive tortuosity in a second direction in the first rock sample from the subterranean formation with the one or more hardware processors, the second direction orthogonal to the first direction in the first rock sample; determining a value of a diffusive tortuosity in third direction in the first rock sample from the subterranean formation with the one or more hardware processors, the third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction in the first rock sample; comparing the values of the diffusive tortuosities in the in the first direction, the second direction, and the third direction; and based on the comparison, generating a first fracture network map of the subterranean formation, the first fracture network map including a first plurality of anisotropic fracture pathways.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220065095A1 MAPPING A FRACTURE GEOMETRY Public/Granted day:2022-03-03
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