Patent Document ID: 10073190
Application ID: 14647296
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of producing hydrocarbons comprising: utilizing a vector volume to determine the location of hydrocarbons, wherein the vector volume is created by: a) obtaining measurement data in a data volume associated with a subsurface region; b) computing initial vector estimates for the data volume to form a vector volume; c) flattening at least a portion of the data volume based on the vector volume; d) computing an error estimate based on the flattened at least a portion of the data volume for each sample; e) determining whether the error estimate is within a threshold; f) updating the initial vector estimates in the vector volume based on the computed error estimate, in response to the threshold not being satisfied; and g) one or more of storing the vector volume in memory accessible by a computer system and displaying the vector volume on a display accessible by a computer system, in response to the threshold being satisfied; h) drilling a well to access the hydrocarbons based at least in part on the vector volume; and i) producing the hydrocarbons from the well.