Chronostratigraphic Medeling and Mapping System and Method
AssigneeDrilling Info, Inc.
InventorRalph A. Williams
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Abstract
A chronostratigraphic database comprising a plurality of discrete data points, wherein each data point comprises an x, y, z and T value, wherein x, y, and z are Cartesian coordinates describing a position and T is a geologic time event relative to said position; a method to produce a chronostratigraphic database and to utilize the database; and a modeling system wherein the database includes data formatted and arranged for use with a computer-implemented method or web-based method for controlling serving of an advertisement or public service message using its relevancy to a request.
Claims20
A chronostratigraphic modeling system comprising a database comprising a plurality of discrete subsurface data points and optionally including surface data points, comprising spatial coordinates (x, y, z) and one or more attributes associated therewith, including a set of age-tagged data points wherein the one or more attributes comprises an age correlation (T) associated with the respective data point, wherein the database is searchable by age, spatial coordinates, or a combination thereof.
A chronostratigraphic modeling method, comprising searching a searchable database comprising a plurality of discrete subsurface data points comprising and one or more attributes associated therewith, including a set of age-tagged data points wherein the one or more attributes comprises an age correlation (T) associated with the respective data point, and displaying the selected data points in an isochron selected from points, lines, grids, surfaces, volumes, or a combination thereof.
A method to produce a chronostratigraphic database comprising:
- a) scanning a plurality of well logs to create raster images;
- b) digitizing the raster images to create digitized well log data;
- c) normalizing the digitized well log data to remove outlier data or errors in the data recording process;
- d) scaling the normalized digitized well log data to emphasize the markers across multiple digitized well logs;
- e) correlating the normalized digitized well log data to identify markers in each depositional stratum;
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- f) tagging the markers within a depositional stratum with the geologic age of the stratum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.