Method for indexing a subsurface volume for the purpose of inferring geologic information
US7769546B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 11, 2008 |
| Grant date | Aug 3, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 31, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V1/301
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of determining a horizon volume. In one embodiment, the horizon volume is determined from obtained seismic information, and maps the obtained seismic information onto a flattened volume such that in the flattened volume, horizons represented in the obtained seismic information are shifted to be substantially coplanar with a surface defined by the horizon volume as an estimate of a single chronostratigraphic time such that the parameters of the flattened volume include (i) a two-dimensional position in a surface plane, and (ii) a metric related to chronostratigraphic time.
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