QUANTUM GRAVIMETERS FOR HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR ANALYSIS

    公开(公告)号:US20230305182A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US17704858

    申请日:2022-03-25

    摘要: The disclosure presents processes to locate one or more quantum gravimeters at a hydrocarbon well site, with at least one quantum gravimeter at a surface location. Zero or more additional gravimeters, whether quantum gravimeters or non-quantum gravimeters, can be located downhole a wellbore of the well site. Gravitational data collected from various gravimeters can be analyzed to produce analyzed gravitational parameters and subterranean formation parameters. In some aspects, the gravitational data can be processed, such as by an inversion algorithm or a noise reduction algorithm. The generated results can be used to calibrate non-quantum gravimeters located proximate the well site or downhole the wellbore, identify a depth and direction of a water front, identify the fluid flow of hydrocarbons or water in the subterranean formation, to identify orphaned hydrocarbon reservoirs, or other characteristics of fluid flow or subterranean formation parameters, such as subterranean formation damage.

    Method for automatically extracting structural framework from potential field data

    公开(公告)号:US10884161B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US15555153

    申请日:2016-03-04

    发明人: Dianhua Cao

    摘要: A method for automatically extracting a tectonic framework of a potential field includes preprocessing gravity potential field data and/or magnetic potential field data from an area to be researched; performing multi-scale and multi-direction edge detection on the preprocessed gravity potential field data and/or magnetic potential field data, and obtaining edges of all scales separately; thinning the calculated edge of each scale into a single pixel width by means of a morphological skeleton algorithm, each point having depth and strength attributes; and obtaining a comprehensive tectonic framework graph and a comprehensive tectonic strength framework graph. A geological structure formed by a control deposit can be identified and qualitatively interpreted, a potential deposit type and attributes of the structure are determined according to prior knowledge of an area to be researched, and different types of tectonic frameworks are screened, thereby achieving target area localization of a metal deposit.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC DATA IN GEOLOGICAL RESOURCE EXPLORATION

    公开(公告)号:US20200379141A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16532773

    申请日:2019-08-06

    IPC分类号: G01V11/00 G01V3/08 G01V7/06

    摘要: The present invention discloses a method and system for processing gravity and magnetic data in geological resource exploration. The method includes: acquiring first (i) potential field data and (ii) gradient data of an observation surface, performing upward continuation of the acquired data using a wave-number domain conversion method to obtain second and third gradient data and second potential field data, and determining third potential field data using a fourth-order explicit scheme Milne method according to the first, second, and third gradient data, and the second potential field data; calculating fourth gradient data using an ISVD method according to the third potential field data; and correcting the third potential field data using a fourth-order implicit scheme Simpson method according to the fourth gradient data, the first potential field data, and the first and second gradient data to obtain corrected third potential field data.

    Zero dead-time gravimeter
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10371856B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-06

    申请号:US15430982

    申请日:2017-02-13

    申请人: AOSense, Inc.

    摘要: An atomic gravimeter device includes one or more lasers and three or more atomic sources. The three or more atomic sources are disposed to launch or drop atoms vertically. The one or more lasers are disposed to generate laser beams that interact with sets of atoms from an atomic source of the three or more atomic sources to measure accelerations of the sets of atoms. A measured value is determined for gravity using interwoven acceleration measurements of the sets of atoms from the three or more atomic sources.