Oilfield analysis systems and methods
    51.
    发明授权
    Oilfield analysis systems and methods 有权
    油田分析系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06829570B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-07

    申请号:US09712491

    申请日:2000-11-14

    IPC分类号: G06G748

    CPC分类号: G01V11/00 Y10S707/99945

    摘要: An oilfield data analysis system is based on a four-tier software model which includes a “shared earth model” and a federation of “directory services”. The first tier is a universal graphical user interface (GUI) which can operate on any inexpensive computer as well as on an expensive workstation, i.e. a “web browser”. The second tier is an application server which is coupled to users via the worldwide web and serves geoscientific software applications. The third tier is a geometric modelling system where geometric data is stored and processed. The third tier embodies the “shared earth model”. The fourth tier is a database management system where non-geometric data is stored. According to the invention, there can be (and preferably are) multiple instances of each tier. Communication of data between different tiers is accomplished via XML data exchange. According to a presently preferred embodiment, the geoscience applications served by the second tier are written as JAVA servlets and applications may communicate with each other without human direction by registering requests with “directory services”. Applications interested in certain types of data “listen” for “data events” being registered with directory services. The cost of utilizing an application can be based on a time-rental billing operation which is carried out automatically via directory services.

    摘要翻译: 油田数据分析系统基于四层软件模型,包括“共享地球模型”和“目录服务”联合体。 第一层是通用图形用户界面(GUI),其可以在任何廉价的计算机以及昂贵的工作站(即“web浏览器”)上操作。 第二层是通过全球网络耦合到用户的应用服务器,并提供地球科学软件应用。 第三层是几何建模系统,几何数据被存储和处理。 第三层体现了“共享地球模式”。 第四层是存储非几何数据的数据库管理系统。 根据本发明,可以(并且优选地)每层的多个实例。 通过XML数据交换实现不同层之间的数据通信。 根据目前优选的实施例,由第二层服务的地球科学应用程序被写为JAVA小服务程序,应用程序可以通过向“目录服务”注册请求而无需人为方向来彼此通信。 对某些类型的数据感兴趣的应用程序“监听”目录服务中注册的“数据事件”。 利用应用程序的成本可以基于通过目录服务自动执行的时间租赁计费操作。

    Model based inversion of seismic response for determining formation properties
    54.
    发明授权
    Model based inversion of seismic response for determining formation properties 有权
    用于确定地层性质的地震反应的基于模型的反演

    公开(公告)号:US09542508B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-10

    申请号:US13882423

    申请日:2011-10-28

    摘要: A method for characterizing a property of a subterranean formation including collecting well log and seismic data, inverting the data, processing for upscaled petrophysical parameters, constructing a flow model that generates saturation, pressure and temperature, constructing seismic velocity relationships from the results of the flow model, and constructing a seismic model. Some embodiments may form a full waveform model or a ray tracing model. Some embodiments may generate a velocity profile and/or waveforms using the profile. Some embodiments may use the parameters to form a reservoir model or to recover hydrocarbons from the formations. Some embodiments build a reservoir model of CO2 injection or CO2 presence after injection or for simulating CO2 presence in a subterranean formation. Some embodiments may also quantify CO2 properties in the reservoir or predict CO2 profile evolution over time in the reservoir including spatial distribution. Some embodiments may also predict CO2 profile evolution over time in a reservoir and risk assessment, estimate storage capacity of the reservoir, or select a storage site. Some additional embodiments may also predict fluid front arrival, fluid front monitoring, fluid movement monitoring, or injectivity. Some additional embodiments may generate saturation profiles or a pressure.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于表征地下地层的属性的方法,包括收集测井和地震数据,翻转数据,处理放大的岩石物理参数,构建产生饱和度,压力和温度的流动模型,从流动结果构建地震速度关系 模型,构建地震模型。 一些实施例可以形成全波形模型或光线跟踪模型。 一些实施例可以使用简档生成速度分布和/或波形。 一些实施例可以使用参数来形成储层模型或从地层中回收碳氢化合物。 一些实施例构建注射后的CO2注入或CO 2存在的储层模型或用于模拟在地层中的CO 2存在。 一些实施方案还可以量化储层中的CO 2特性或预测包含空间分布在内的储层中随时间的CO 2分布演变。 一些实施例还可以预测储层中随时间的CO 2分布演变和风险评估,估计储层的储存容量或选择储存地点。 一些额外的实施例还可以预测流体前端到达,流体前端监测,流体运动监测或注射性。 一些额外的实施例可以产生饱和曲线或压力。

    Fluid minotiring and flow characterization
    56.
    发明授权
    Fluid minotiring and flow characterization 有权
    流体分解和流动特性

    公开(公告)号:US09371710B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-21

    申请号:US13547210

    申请日:2012-07-12

    IPC分类号: E21B49/00 E21B33/124

    CPC分类号: E21B33/124 E21B49/008

    摘要: A wireline logging tool and method for fluid monitoring and flow characterization in individual zones of controlled salinity is disclosed. The tool and method advantageously facilitate zone-specific testing. Sets of packers are used to create hydraulically distinct zones proximate to the tool. Coiled tubing and isolation valves are used to selectively introduce and remove an electrically conductive fluid such as brine to and from a selected zone. Individual sensors are disposed near each zone to make zone-specific measurements while fluid properties are changed, e.g., while salinity is changed to cause salinity fronts in the formation.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于控制盐度的各个区域中的流体监测和流动表征的电缆测井工具和方法。 该工具和方法有利于促进区域特异性测试。 包装机组用于在工具附近创建液压不同的区域。 螺旋管和隔离阀用于选择性地将导电流体(例如盐水)引入并从所选区域去除。 单独的传感器设置在每个区域附近以进行区域特异性测量,同时改变流体性质,例如当盐度改变以引起地层中的盐度前沿时。

    Dual or twin-well completion with wettability alteration for segregated oil and water production
    57.
    发明授权
    Dual or twin-well completion with wettability alteration for segregated oil and water production 有权
    双重或双井完井,对于分离的油和水的生产,可以改善润湿性

    公开(公告)号:US09291046B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-22

    申请号:US13191995

    申请日:2011-07-27

    IPC分类号: E21B43/38

    CPC分类号: E21B43/38 E21B43/385

    摘要: A well completion and related method are provided for formations susceptible to simultaneous production of oil and water. In one embodiment, two closely spaced, preferably horizontal wellbores are drilled from a single well into the reservoir. The reservoir rock surrounding one leg (typically the upper leg) is chemically treated to make it hydrophobic, whereas the reservoir rock surrounding the other leg is chemically treated to make it hydrophilic. Separate production tubing and a dual completion is installed in order to enable independent flow from each leg. Drawdown pressures in both legs are controlled to be sufficiently close to each other such that only oil flows into one leg and only water into the other. The water produced is re-injected downhole or brought to the surface.

    摘要翻译: 为易于同时生产油和水的地层提供完井和相关方法。 在一个实施例中,将两个紧密间隔的,优选水平的井筒从单井钻入储存器。 围绕一条腿(通常是大腿)的储层岩石被化学处理以使其疏水,而围绕另一条腿的储层岩石被化学处理以使其亲水。 安装独立的生产管道和双重完井,以实现每条腿的独立流动。 控制两条腿中的压降压力彼此足够接近,使得只有油流入一条腿并且只有水流入另一条腿。 产生的水重新注入井下或带到地面。

    Tool and method for determining formation parameter
    60.
    发明授权
    Tool and method for determining formation parameter 有权
    确定地层参数的工具和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08297354B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-30

    申请号:US12103027

    申请日:2008-04-15

    IPC分类号: E21B43/12 E21B47/10

    摘要: An apparatus and method of measuring a parameter characteristic of a rock formation in an oil well is provided with a device for generating a sensing field within a volume of the rock formation and a device for causing a flow through the volume in the presence of the sensing field, further including sensors responsive to changes in the volume, wherein a sensor response is indicative of the amounts of fluid, particularly hydrocarbon and water saturations and irreducible hydrocarbon and water saturations. Measurements can be made before the flow affects the measuring volume and after onset of the flow through the measuring volume.

    摘要翻译: 在油井中测量岩层的参数特征的装置和方法设置有用于在岩体的体积内产生感测场的装置和用于在存在感测的情况下使流体流过体积的装置 进一步包括响应于体积变化的传感器,其中传感器响应指示流体的量,特别是烃和水饱和度以及不可约的碳氢化合物和水饱和度。 测量可以在流量影响测量体积之前和流过测量体积的开始之后进行。