IP Library Granted Patent US 11,340,380
Granted Patent B2
US 11,340,380 · App. 17/164,179 · Granted May 24, 2022

Raster log digitization system and method

Inventor: John Neave (Littleton, CO)
Assignee: Enverus, Inc.
G01V11/002
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Patent No.
US 11,340,380
App. No.
17/164,179
Granted
May 24, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A raster log digitization system and method are disclosed. The system and method receives a raster log in which the raster log has one or more values of one or more measurements of a well and each value of each measurement being recorded at a plurality of depths of the well. In the raster log, the value of at least one measurement wraps around the raster log. The system and method may generate using the received raster log a digital log from the raster log wherein the digital log resolves the values of at least one measurement that wrapped around the raster log.

Claims (46)

1. An apparatus comprising a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media that comprises instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:

identifying a hydrocarbon well raster log that comprises a plurality of values associated with a geologic measurement of a hydrocarbon well at a plurality of depths of the hydrocarbon well, the plurality of values of the geologic measurement recorded within and outside of a scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log such that a portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is outside of the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log wrap back to, and overlap, another portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is within the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log;

processing the hydrocarbon well raster log, the processing comprising performing an image straightening on the hydrocarbon well raster log;

subsequent to the processing, generating a hydrocarbon well digital log wherein the hydrocarbon well digital log unwraps the values of the at least one geologic measurement on the hydrocarbon well raster log such that the portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is outside of the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log does not overlap the another portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is within the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log;

digitizing a curve from the hydrocarbon well digital log, the digitized curve comprising a curve of the values for the at least one geologic measurement; and

generating data representative of at least one of the hydrocarbon well digital log or the digitized curve for display on a graphical user interface (GUI).

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operation of generating the hydrocarbon well digital log further comprises:

generating a first panel of the hydrocarbon well digital log having a first range of values for the geologic measurement of the hydrocarbon well raster log; and

generating a second panel of the hydrocarbon well digital log having a second range of values that do not overlap the first range of values for the geologic measurement of the hydrocarbon well raster log.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the operation of generating the hydrocarbon well digital log further comprises:

generating a third panel of the hydrocarbon well digital log having a third range of values that do not overlap the first and second ranges of values for the at least one geologic measurement of the hydrocarbon well raster log.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the operations further comprise:

generating data representative of the hydrocarbon well digital log that comprises each of the first and second panels of the hydrocarbon well digital log for display adjacent to each other on the GUI.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the hydrocarbon well raster log comprises a linear scale associated with a measured depth of the hydrocarbon well.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the geologic measurement comprises one of an electrical parameter, a resistivity parameter, an image parameter, a porosity parameter, a density parameter, a neutron porosity parameter, or a gamma ray parameter of one or more geologic formations adjacent the hydrocarbon well.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operation of processing the hydrocarbon well raster log further comprises:

performing an image warping on the hydrocarbon well raster log.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the operation of performing the image warping further comprises performing bi-linear interpolation.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining one or more off-scale portions of the hydrocarbon well digital log; and

deemphasizing the one or more off-scale portion of the hydrocarbon well digital log in the digitized curve.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the hydrocarbon well digital log comprises a multi-panel hydrocarbon well digital log.

11. A computing system, comprising:

one or more memory modules; and

one or more hardware processors communicably coupled to the one or more memory modules to execute instructions stored in the one or more memory modules to perform operations comprising:

identifying a hydrocarbon well raster log that comprises a plurality of values associated with a geologic measurement of a hydrocarbon well at a plurality of depths of the hydrocarbon well, the plurality of values of the geologic measurement recorded within and outside of a range of the hydrocarbon well raster log such that a portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is outside of the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log wrap back to, and overlap, another portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is within the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log;

processing the hydrocarbon well raster log, the processing comprising performing an image straightening on the hydrocarbon well raster log;

subsequent to the processing, generating a hydrocarbon well digital log wherein the hydrocarbon well digital log unwraps the values of the at least one geologic measurement on the hydrocarbon well raster log such that the portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is outside of the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log does not overlap the another portion of the plurality of values of the geologic measurement that is within the scale range of the hydrocarbon well raster log;

digitizing a curve from the hydrocarbon well digital log, the digitized curve comprising a curve of the values for the at least one geologic measurement; and

generating data representative of at least one of the hydrocarbon well digital log or the digitized curve for display on a graphical user interface (GUI).

12. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the operation of generating the hydrocarbon well digital log further comprises:

generating a first panel of the hydrocarbon well digital log having a first range of values for the geologic measurement of the hydrocarbon well raster log; and

generating a second panel of the hydrocarbon well digital log having a second range of values that do not overlap the first range of values for the geologic measurement of the hydrocarbon well raster log.

13. The computing system of claim 12 , wherein the operation of generating the hydrocarbon well digital log further comprises:

generating a third panel of the hydrocarbon well digital log having a third range of values that do not overlap the first and second ranges of values for the at least one geologic measurement of the hydrocarbon well raster log.

14. The computing system of claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise:

generating data representative of the hydrocarbon well digital log that comprises each of the first and second panels of the hydrocarbon well digital log for display adjacent to each other on the GUI.

15. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the hydrocarbon well raster log comprises a linear scale associated with a measured depth of the hydrocarbon well.

16. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the geologic measurement comprises one of an electrical parameter, a resistivity parameter, an image parameter, a porosity parameter, a density parameter, a neutron porosity parameter, or a gamma ray parameter of one or more geologic formations adjacent the hydrocarbon well.

17. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the operation of processing the hydrocarbon well raster log further comprises:

performing an image warping on the hydrocarbon well raster log.

18. The computing system of claim 17 , wherein the operation of performing the image warping further comprises performing bi-linear interpolation.

19. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining one or more off-scale portions of the hydrocarbon well digital log; and

deemphasizing the one or more off-scale portion of the hydrocarbon well digital log in the digitized curve.

20. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the hydrocarbon well digital log comprises a multi-panel hydrocarbon well digital log.

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS (REEL/FRAME 065943/0954) Recorded Dec 29, 2025
From: GOLUB CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
To: ENVERUS, INC.
Reel/Frame 074103/0381 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2025
From: ENVERUS, INC.
To: GOLUB CAPITAL MARKETS LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073262/0041 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 22, 2023
From: ENVERUS, INC.
To: GOLUB CAPITAL MARKETS LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 065943/0954 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 28, 2021
From: DRILLING INFO, INC.
To: ENVERUS, INC.
Reel/Frame 057968/0816 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2021
From: NEAVE, JOHN
To: DRILLING INFO, INC.
Reel/Frame 055117/0906 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14884701 · Oct 15, 2015
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