Active and passive monitoring of fault reactivation under stress cycling

Milad Naderloo, Aukje Veltmeijer, Auke Barnhoorn

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... is the traffic light system (TLS), in which an injection protocol is modified by flow rate or fluid pressure based on pre-defined thresholds of seismic magnitudes...

Integrated seismic hazard analysis of southwest Penang Island through horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio and probabilistic seismic hazard assessment

Siti Noor Shafiqah Badrolhisham, Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...Integrated seismic hazard analysis of southwest Penang Island through horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio and probabilistic seismic hazard...

DAS Microseismic Monitoring and Integration With Strain Measurements in Hydraulic Fracture Profiling

Martin Karrenbach, Andrew Ridge, Steve Cole, Kevin Boone, Dan Kahn, Jamie Rich, Ken Silver, Dave Langton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... packers or behind casing, or to measuring seismic wave fields (Molenaar, 2012; Panhuis et al, 2014 ). In contrast to traditional point sensors...

ABSTRACT: Present-Day Stress States Near Faults, North LaBarge Field, Sublette County, Wyoming, by J. L. Miskimins; #90909 (2000)

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Constraining Fault Seal Risk Using Seismic Velocities and Well Data

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Multiscale fault and fracture characterization methods

QiQi Ma, Taizhong Duan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., the traditional seismic fault prediction methods can not meet the needs of accurate characterization of different scale faults. Aiming at the problems of low...

Factors linking the static and dynamic elastic stiffness of shale: An experimental study on shales

Xuan Qin, Yonghao Zhang, De-hua Han1

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the modulus at zero strain, and its slope represented the stress sensitivity parameter. These two parameters were negatively correlated. The absolute...

Geomechanics Wellbore Stability Analysis in Successful Drilling of a Challenging HPHT Exploration Well in North Sumatra

Restio Brata, Muhamad Yanuar Mahardi, Apollinaris Stefanus Leo Anis, Fatrial Bahesti

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... rock mechanics information and parameters:  A description of rock fabric (i.e., the mechanical stratigraphy of the formations considered);  Rock...

Acoustic Log Measurements in the Lower Eagle Ford Formation in Brazos and Robertson Counties, Texas and Their Implications on Completion Design

Richard Reischman, Scott Brooks, Trevor Willms, Tony L. Albrecht, John J. Walsh, Edgar Arteaga

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... possible to measure three independent parameters from sonic logs (figure 5). These include the horizontal compressional and fast shear wave...

Mechanism of Microseismic Generation During Hydraulic Fracturing - With Evidence From HFTS 2 Observations

Yunhui Tan, Jiehao Wang, Peggy Rijken, Zhishuai Zhang, Zijun Fang, Ruiting Wu, Ivan Lim Chen Ning, Xinghui Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... clouds near heel stages are much shorter than what is shown with LF-DAS strain data. 3. Microseismic event magnitudes are larger in the depleted regions...

Integration of ground motions into induced seismicity risk management in the Kiskatinaw area, Northeast B.C, Canada

Mark Novakovic, Karen Assatourians, Stuart Venables, Michelle Gaucher, Adam Baig

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... resulting from a seismic event can be broken down and simplified into three main categories: the source (earthquake magnitude), path (the earth...

Relationships Between Pore Pressure, Stresses, and Present-Day Geodynamics in the Scotian Shelf, Offshore Eastern Canada

N. A. Yassir , J. S. Bell

AAPG Bulletin

... well control for all parameters in the upper 6 km. The distribution of rock units in the lower 14 km is based on seismic data, and the geomechanical...

Mathematical model for calculating the horizontal principal stress of a faulted monoclinal structure in southwest Qaidam Basin, China

Xiangyu Fan, Qiangui Zhang, Meiheng Duan, Yang Yang, Qiang Duan, Xiaohong Chen, and Da Lv

AAPG Bulletin

... inclusions. Third, the magnitudes of the horizontal principal stresses of the study area were obtained using this new mathematical model...

Understanding Hydraulic Fractures in Tight-gas Sands through the Integration of Borehole Microseismic Data, Three-dimensional Surface Seismic Data, and Three-dimensional Vertical Seismic Profile Data: A Jonah Field Case Study

Nancy House, Julie Shemeta

AAPG Special Volumes

... seismic data with an event-detection program. The event data are analyzed for P- and S-wave first arrivals, which are handpicked by a seismic analyst...

Massive focal mechanism solutions from deep learning in west Texas

Yangkang Chen, Omar M. Saad, Alexandros Savvaidis, Fangxue Zhang, Yunfeng Chen, Dino Huang, Huijian Li, Farzaneh Aziz Zanjani

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... propose a deep-learning method (EQpolarity) for determining the P-wave first-motion polarity using the vertical-component seismic waveforms. We apply...

Geostatistical Integration of Crosswell Data for Carbonate Reservoir Modeling, Mcelroy Field, Texas

William M. Bashore, Robert T. Langan, Karla E. Tucker, Paul J. Griffith

Special Publications of SEPM

... and S-Wave reflection images generated from a set of crosswell seismic data collected between wells separated by about 185 feet. The P-wave image...

Automated processing development at a CO2 site: Phase detection, location, magnitude

Jian Zhang, Kevin D. Hutchenson, Elige B. Grant, Paul A. Nyffenegger, Mark A. Tinker

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... for monitoring seismic activity at production, disposal injection, and CO2 sequestration sites compared to traditional surface networks or downhole deployments...

Populations, Trends, and Cycles in Combined-Flow Bedforms

Indranil Banerjee

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... interplay of wave and current parameters (flow depth, orbital diameter, near-bottom unidirectional velocity, mixing length in the turbulence structure...

ABSTRACT CO2 Storage Monitoring Efforts at the Weyburn-Midale Fields, Canada, #90103 (2010)

Ben Rostron, Don White, Jim Johnson, Chris Hawkes, Craig Gardner, Rick Chalaturyk, Steve Whittaker

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.... The effects of CO2 injection on seismic properties within the reservoir at Weyburn are to reduce the P- and S-wave velocities by about 8% and 1.5%, respectively...

Bottom Boundary Layer Parameters and Sediment Transport on the Louisiana Inner-Shelf During Cold Front Passages

David A. Pepper , Gregory W. Stone , and Ping Wang

GCAGS Transactions

... (depth ~ 8m) using a sophisticated bottom-mounted instrumentation system. We then calculated bottom boundary layer parameters using wave-current...

Geomechanical Lithology-Based Analysis of Microseismicity in Organic Shale Sequences: A comparison from multiple hydraulic fracturing field sites

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Regional detection and monitoring of injection-induced seismicity: Application to the 2010–2012 Youngstown, Ohio, seismic sequence

S. G. Holtkamp, M. R. Brudzinski, and B. S. Currie

AAPG Bulletin

... a process called crosscorrelation. The seismic recording of an earthquake is the result of a combination of three parameters: (1) the earthquake...

Abstract: Scratching the Surface, Limitless Possibilities for Understanding Reservoir Behavior Through the use of Extensive Downhole Seismic Networks; #90000 (2016)

Ted Urbancic

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...Abstract: Scratching the Surface, Limitless Possibilities for Understanding Reservoir Behavior Through the use of Extensive Downhole Seismic Networks...

Numerical modeling of shear deformation measurements from distributed fiber optic strain sensing for detection and mitigation of induced seismicity

Aishwarya Srinivasan, Kan Wu, Ge Jin, George Moridis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... velocity models have traditionally been applied for microseismic analysis, utilizing p-wave and s-wave arrival times to determine seismic event...

Case History Study of Seismic-Driven 3-D MEM Calibrated with 1-D MEMs and Petrophysics in Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma

Vivek Swami, Julio Tavares, Vishnu Pandey, Tatyana Nekrasova, Dan Cook, Jose Moncayo, David Yale

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Case History Study of Seismic-Driven 3-D MEM Calibrated with 1-D MEMs and Petrophysics in Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma Vivek Swami, Julio Tavares, Vishnu...