Method for determining travertine deposit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12140722-B2
Application number	US-201817290590-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2018
Priority date	Oct 30, 2018
Publication date	Nov 12, 2024
Grant date	Nov 12, 2024

Abstract

A method for determining a travertine deposit by:
receiving a geological gridded model comprising a plurality of cells; receiving a source cell or a group of source cells of the geological gridded model corresponding to a source; determining a trajectory of a particle introduced at the source based on stochastic movements; and updating a travertine deposit in cells located on the trajectory of the particle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for determining travertine deposit on an area, the method comprising:
/a/ receiving a geological gridded model of the area, the geological gridded model comprising a plurality of cells;
/b/ receiving a source cell or a group of source cells of the geological gridded model, said source cell or group of source cells corresponding to a source located in the area;
/c/ determining, in the geological gridded model, a trajectory of a particle introduced at the source cell or at the group of source cells, said trajectory being defined by stochastic movements of the particle;
/d/ updating a travertine deposit in cells of the geological gridded model located on the trajectory of the particle; and
/e/ determining a geological profile of the area based on the travertine deposit and determining at least one hydrocarbon reservoir to exploit based on the geological profile of the area
wherein, if the source cell or the group of source cells is above a water level in the model, updating a travertine deposit comprises:

modifying a height of a current cell located on the trajectory according to a quantity of travertine, said quantity being function of a slope between said current cell and a neighboring cell located in a neighborhood of said current cell.

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the determination of the trajectory is based on whether the source is located above a water level or not.

3. A method according to claim 2 , wherein a number of particles introduced at the source cell or at the group of source cells is determined based on a target height of travertine deposit, or a maximum quantity of travertine deposit allowed per cell of the grid.

4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein said quantity of travertine comprises a linear term which depends on the slope, and a non-linear term which depends on the slope.

5. A method according to claim 4 , wherein said quantity of travertine is equal to:
R 1 +R 2 ×S+R 3 ×S 1/2
where S is the slope between the current cell and the neighboring cell, and R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are coefficients.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein /b/, /c/ and /d/ are iteratively performed until an average travertine deposit is reached for a group of cells and/or when a maximum quantity of travertine deposit allowed per cell of the grid is reached.

7. A method according to claim 1 , wherein, if the source cell or at the group of source cells is above a water level in the model and if the trajectory meets the water level, said particle is destroyed.

8. A method according to claim 1 , wherein each cell of the geological gridded model has a respective altitude, and wherein, if the source is located above a water level, the stochastic movements of the particle in /c/ include:
a first stochastic displacement associated to a set of first probabilities, said first probabilities depending on a slope between a first cell where the particle is located and a second cell located in a neighborhood of said current cell; and
a second stochastic displacement in which a second probability that the particle moves from a cell A to a cell B, cell B having a higher altitude than cell A, is set to zero or to a value below a predetermined threshold of significance.

9. A method according to claim 1 , wherein, if the source is located under a water level, the stochastic movements of the particle in /c/ are vertical movements.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program comprising program instructions, the computer program being loadable into a data-processing unit and adapted to cause the data-processing unit to carry out the method of claim 1 when the computer program is run by the data-processing device.

11. A device for determining travertine deposit on an area, the device comprising:
an interface for receiving a geological gridded model of the area, the geological gridded model comprising a plurality of cells;
a circuit for receiving a source cell or a group of source cells of the geological gridded model, said source cell or group of source cells corresponding to a source located in the area;
a circuit for determining, in the geological gridded model, a trajectory of a particle introduced at the source cell or at the group of source cells, said trajectory being defined by stochastic movements of the particle; and
a circuit for updating a travertine deposit in cells of the geological gridded model located on the trajectory of the particle a circuit for determining a geological profile of the area based on the travertine deposit and for determining at least one hydrocarbon reservoir to exploit based on the geological profile of the area,
wherein, if the source cell or the group of source cells is above a water level in the model, updating a travertine deposit comprises:

modifying a height of a current cell located on the trajectory according to a quantity of travertine, said quantity being function of a slope between said current cell and a neighboring cell located in a neighborhood of said current cell.

Assignees

• Total Se
• Totalenergies Onetech

Inventors

• Massonnat Gérard
• Virgone Aurélien

Classifications

• G06T17/20

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• G06T17/05

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• G01V2210/661

  Model from sedimentation process modeling, e.g. from first principles · CPC title

• G01V2210/1293

  Sea · CPC title

• G06F30/20

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title