PATTERN RECOGNITION TEMPLATE CONSTRUCTION APPLIED TO OIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION

An apparatus, system, and set of methods are provided for building templates that can be used in the exploration and production oil and gas deposits. A personal computer is used to perform calculations on known data to generate hyperdimensional templates that are stored within a pattern database. The hyperdimensional templates are generated in a layered series of cutting, attributing, and statisizing phases using data known to represent existing oil and gas reservoirs. The hyperdimensional templates are stored in a pattern database. Methods are provided for identifying misclassifications and otherwise determine the quality of the templates in the pattern database.