公开(公告)号：US20210208296A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US16070611

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation

Inventor： Jesse Mathias Lomask ,  Ze Yang

IPC: G01V1/34 ,  G01V1/30

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for predicting a location of a fault in an area of interest of a subterranean formation by automatically determining a minimum-energy path between fault points received from a user and positioned on a seismic image of the area of interest. The seismic image of the area of interest may include fault indicators corresponding to potential faults. In some aspects, the minimum-energy path may be determined by tracing a path from one of the two fault points to the other fault points using segments of the fault indicators identified as requiring the least amount of energy to traverse a path between the selected fault points.