Patent ID: 9436658
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G01V,G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for creating a surface having one or more faults, comprising: a) estimating a surface level on each side of each fault, an elevation difference between the estimated surface levels on each side of a respective fault representing a respective fault throw value; b) adjusting each fault throw value using a computer processor; c) locating each local well top within a predefined search neighborhood from a grid node within a grid on the surface; d) identifying each fault that crosses a vector between the grid node and each respective local well top, each vector between the grid node and each respective local well top representing an intersecting vector; e) accumulating each adjusted fault throw value along each respective intersecting vector, which represents an accumulated fault throw value for each respective intersecting vector; f) adjusting a value for each local well top based on a respective accumulated fault throw value; g) performing interpolation at the grid node using the adjusted value for each local well top; and h) repeating steps c)-g) for each grid node within the grid.