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G01V 1/40 (2006.01) E21B 47/00 (2006.01) G01V 1/50 (2006.01)
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CA 2316095
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 limitation - while humans are very good at determining "what" to look for, we are very poor at holding very large amounts of data in a correlative form in our current memory. This means that we must correlate in a linear manner and keep the correlations small because we lose correlative power very quickly. This inability severely limits the effectiveness of our efforts when attempting to establish a "big picture" view of a large geographic area. The combination of these two factors limits the speed at which hydrocarbon prospects can be generated which is, in fact, is the primary obstacle to accelerated hydrocarbon production. The invention speeds up the prospect generation process by automating the required correlations, thereby substantially increasing the production and recovery of hydrocarbon.
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