US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Aug. 12 for "System and method for reservoir structure characterization" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,090, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc..

"System and method for reservoir structure characterization" was invented by Yijie Zhou (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for reservoir structure characterization including obtaining well logs and seismic data; performing facies classification and stratigraphic sequencing on the well logs to identify a plurality of layers; estimating wavelets from the seismic data and using the wavelets to tie synthetic seismograms from well logs to the seismic data; determining a mean value for each elastic property in each layer of the well logs and ass...