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

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method to generate a partitioned digital tomographic representation, the method comprising:
obtaining a 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 empty voxels representing the pores, 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.