Allocating oil production from geochemical fingerprints
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorXavier Nouvelle
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Abstract
Example embodiments include one or more of a method, computing device, computer-readable medium and system for allocating oil production from geochemical fingerprints. In an example embodiment, a method may include providing a known mixture comprising known proportions of a plurality of end-members; providing an unknown mixture comprising unknown proportions of the end-members; performing a chromatographic analysis of each of the known mixture, the end-members, and the unknown mixture; determining a plurality of peak ratios, and prior peak ratio qualities related to the peak ratios, using the chromatographic analysis; and estimating an estimate of the unknown proportions of the end-members using the peak ratios, the prior peak ratio qualities, and the known proportion of the end-members.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- providing a known mixture comprising known proportions of a plurality of end-members;
- providing an unknown mixture comprising unknown proportions of the end-members;
- performing a chromatographic analysis of each of the known mixture, the end-members, and the unknown mixture;
- determining, by operation of a processor, a plurality of peak ratios, and prior peak ratio qualities related to the peak ratios, using the chromatographic analysis;
- and
- estimating, by operation of the processor, an estimate of the unknown proportions of the end-members using the peak ratios, the prior peak ratio qualities, and the known proportions of the end-members.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media for processing data, the computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions to instruct a computing device to perform a process, the process comprising:
- performing a chromatographic analysis of each of a known mixture comprising known proportions of a plurality of end members, an unknown mixture comprising unknown proportions of the end members, and the end-members;
- determining a plurality of peak ratios, and prior peak ratio qualities related to the peak ratios, using the chromatographic analysis;
- and
- estimating an estimate of the unknown proportions of the end-members using the peak ratios, the prior peak ratio qualities, and the known proportions of the end-members.
A system for processing data, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory;
- a storage medium;
- a plurality of computer-executable instructions residing in the storage medium to instruct the processor to perform a process, the process comprising:
- performing a chromatographic analysis of each of a known mixture comprising known proportions of a plurality of end members, an unknown mixture comprising unknown proportions of the end members, and the end-members;
- determining a plurality of peak ratios, and prior peak ratio qualities related to the peak ratios, using the chromatographic analysis;
- and
- estimating an estimate of the unknown proportions of the end-members using the peak ratios, the prior peak ratio qualities, and the known proportions of the end-members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.