Method of characterising a subsurface volume

    公开(公告)号:US10705235B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15506851

    申请日:2015-08-26

    Applicant: Total SA

    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of characterizing a subsurface volume. The method comprises: extracting a geobody from seismic data arranged within a discretized volume comprising a plurality of cells, the geobody comprising a subset of the plurality of cells, each cell of the subset having one or more properties indicative of a particular fluid phase. The extraction of the geobody comprises: determining a propagation probability value for each cell indicative of the probability that a front will propagate through the cell; beginning from a source within the discretized volume, using the propagation probability value to calculate a traveltime for each cell, the travel time describing the time the front takes to travel from the source point to the cell; and using the traveltimes to extract the geobody from the seismic data.

    SCREENING METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE H2S RELEASE CAPACITY OF A SULFUR CONTAINING SAMPLE

    公开(公告)号:US20200096492A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-26

    申请号:US16500838

    申请日:2017-04-04

    Applicant: TOTAL SA

    Abstract: The present invention relates to method for assessing the H2S release capacity of a liquid sample containing one or more sulfur compounds which are able to be degraded into gaseous H2S with temperature. The method comprising: a) Placing a volume of the liquid sample in a purge vessel so as to obtain a liquid phase and a gaseous phase in a flask; b) Purging the gaseous phase with an inert gas stream for a determined period of time; e) Passing the purged gaseous phase through a H2S trap; d) Recovering H2S from the H2S trap; and e) Dosing the recovered H2S. The invention is also used in a method for selecting a liquid sample, in particular among a group of different liquid samples.

    Method for insulating sub-soil
    15.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10550538B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US15311761

    申请日:2015-05-15

    Applicant: TOTAL SA

    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for insulating sub-soil comprising mechanically destructuring the sub-soil, injecting an insulating material into the destructured sub-soil, and mixing the sub-soil and the insulating material. The thermal conductivity of the insulating material is strictly lower than the thermal conductivity of the sub-soil.

    Method for determining a proportion cube

    公开(公告)号:US10545262B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-28

    申请号:US15531674

    申请日:2014-11-28

    Applicant: TOTAL SA

    Abstract: A method and a device for determining geological facies in subsoil for oil and gas exploration. The method determines a combined proportion cube from a first meshed proportion cube and a second meshed proportion cube. The invention combines some facies models giving vertical probabilities and some facies models giving horizontal probabilities. This determination is particularly efficient in the presence of a zero probability in one of these models and is capable of respecting the mathematical constraint according to which the sum of each row and each column in the final proportion model must be equal to a predetermined maximum value.

    MODELLING GEOLOGICAL FAULTS
    17.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200025971A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-23

    申请号:US16338304

    申请日:2016-10-03

    Applicant: TOTAL SA

    Abstract: To model hydrocarbon reservoirs more accurately, models of a geological volume using a three dimensional grid of cells populated with data from seismic studies are augmented by providing fine-grained stochastic models of the distribution of relays in fault zones and modelling the flow of hydrocarbons taking account the modelled relays.

    Method and device for processing well data

    公开(公告)号:US10422911B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-24

    申请号:US15531658

    申请日:2014-11-28

    Applicant: TOTAL SA

    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for processing well data from a well. The method comprises: receiving, for each current facies, a presence probability distribution of said current facies, depending on a parameter influencing sedimentation. For each current measurement, and in a space comprising at least a first axis and a second axis, determining at least one point having, as a coordinate along the first axis, said current measurement, and as a coordinate along the second axis, a value of the parameter, determined depending on the presence probability distribution of the facies associated with the current measurement in the received well data. The method further comprises determining a curve in the space depending on at least one point for each measurement of the plurality of measurements.

    System and method for extracting gas from a well

    公开(公告)号:US10408034B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-10

    申请号:US15507643

    申请日:2014-08-28

    Applicant: TOTAL SA

    Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for extracting the liquids from a well producing liquid and gas. The system comprises a separation wall defining, in the well, a first space and a second space; a liquid-gas separator; and a system for eliminating separated liquid. The first space is suitable for conveying a mixture comprising the gas and liquid from a production area to the separator. The separator is suitable for separating the gas and liquid from the mixture. The second space receives the liquid separated from the mixture. Finally, the elimination system is suitable for eliminating the separated liquid using at least the gravitational potential energy of said separated liquid in the second space.

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