Patent ID: 7671867
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G01V,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for extracting underground deposits of hydrocarbon from a formation, comprising: generating input data including a well log output record and a seismic data output record; receiving said input data and generating an output display including a silhouette highlight of a selected object, the step of generating said output display including, rendering a selected object and a 3D scene into off screen image and depth buffers and generating a texture image containing an image of a set of visible parts of the selected object over a background color, in response to said texture image, re-rendering a whole 3D scene on screen where all objects are re-rendered normally; and adding a screen-aligned transparent quad object to the 3D scene and rendering the quad by drawing a silhouette highlight of the selected object; determining, from said output display, a particular location in the formation where said underground deposits of hydrocarbon are located; and extracting said underground deposits of hydrocarbon from said particular location in the formation.