Patent ID: 11928807
Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising processing circuitry to perform a method comprising:
obtaining digital tomographic representation of a rock comprising pores and throats, wherein the pores are empty spaces inside the rock and the throats are connections between the pores;
partitioning the pores and throats within the tomographic representation by:
characterizing the pores using a Maximum Inscribed Ball technique;
after the characterization, growing sizes of the pores and applying a Connected Component Labelling technique, wherein growing sizes of the pores and applying the Connected Component Labelling technique comprises iteratively applying dilation to the empty voxels, and assigning a different label to each region using the Connected Component Labelling if the empty voxel is neighbor to another voxel of a previous iteration of the dilation, wherein a neighborhood is defined by at least one input parameter comprising connectivity; and
after growing the pores, separating the pores and throats using a Digital Binary Morphology technique, thereby generating the partitioned tomographic representation; and
outputting the partitioned tomographic representation.