Patent ID: 8682624

Claim:
A method of modeling and optimizing the recovery from an oil or gas geological reservoir, according to a given set of training data, the method comprising the steps of: measuring conditioning values at certain points of the reservoir; including the conditioning values in a simulation grid; defining a simulation path in the simulation grid; iterating, for the nodes of the simulation path, the steps of: defining a neighborhood in the simulation grid, the neighborhood including a set of known neighbor nodes in the simulated grid having a spatial relationship with the node of the simulation path under treatment; randomly scanning the set of training data for a data set that matches said neighborhood; attributing to the node of the simulation path under treatment, the value of a node in the training data that has the same spatial relationship with the nodes of matching data set as the node of the simulation path under treatment with the defined neighborhood; stopping the scanning for a data set that matches said neighborhood at the first successful match; generating a simulated parameter field in the simulation grid; and optimizing the recovery of oil and gas from the geological reservoir.