A computerized process for discovering hydrocarbon by applying event recognition to oil & gas well logs
CA 2316095 A1 · Owner: Durward, James · Inventors: Durward, James
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The invention is a computerized process for discovering hydrocarbon by applying event, recognition to oil&gas wells logs. Presently geologists must manually search , through thousands of oil&gas well logs to find a combination of sensor readings (the "Event") that indicate, probable hydrocarbon production. This manual search has two major limitations: 1. Time - it takes a long time to search through thousands or ten's of , thousands, of wells, logs looking for the desired correlations between Events from producing well and, possible Events in various non-producing wells. In larger regional projects this can take, up to a year in duration and success is not guaranteed; and 2. Size …
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- Filed August 3, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 3, 2020.
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