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US 2017/0248718 A1Published application
Method of characterising a subsurface volume
AssigneeTotal SA
InventorsPierre Daniel THORE, Pierre BERGEY
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Disclosed is a method of characterising a subsurface volume. The method comprises: extracting a geobody from seismic data arranged within a discretised 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 discretised volume, using the propagation probability value to calculate a travel-time 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.
A method of characterising a subsurface discretised volume comprising a plurality of cells, the method comprising extracting a geobody from seismic data arranged within the discretised volume, 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, wherein the extracting a geobody comprises:
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