Second Generation Testing of Cased Uncemented Multi-Fractured Horizontal Well Technology in the Horn River

Stefan Merkle, Jurgen Lehmann, James Pyecroft

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... are hydraulically fractured in a sequential manner from the toe to the heel of the horizontal section, alternating from well to well. Frac treatment and microseismic...

A New Method of Neostress Determination From Passive Seismic Data

Alfred Lacazette, Alan Morris

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... mechanism solutions are relatively rare. • Both surface and downhole microseismic methods are limited in their ability to accurately determine focal...

A Numerical Simulation of Microseismic Depletion Delineation for Duverney Oilfield in Canada Using a Fast Approach for a Fully Coupled 3D Quasistatic Poroelastic Modeling

Andrey H. Shabelansky, Kurt T. Nihei, Gian Fradelizio, Sinead Tracey, Dimitri Bevc

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A Numerical Simulation of Microseismic Depletion Delineation for Duverney Oilfield in Canada Using a Fast Approach for a Fully Coupled 3D Quasistatic...

Integrated Hydraulic Fracture Modeling Using Field Fiber-Optic Data from Zipper Fracs

Lili Xu, Jiehao Wang, Ruiting Wu, Jean-Philippe Junca-Laplace, Joe Dunn, Alejandro Lerza, Brian Velardo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... rate responses with interpreted microseismic events from distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) signals across multiple well spacings, we gain valuable...

Physics-Driven Optimization of Drained Rock Volume for Multistage Fracturing: Field Example from the Wolfcamp Formation, Midland Basin

Sergei G. Parsegov, Kiran Nandlal, David S. Schechter, Ruud Weijermars

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... development plan. Fig. 1a shows a gunbarrel view, looking due north, of the four Wolfcamp production wells (44H, 45H, 46H, and 49H) with adjacent microseismic...

CSPG/CSEG/CWLS GeoConvention 2011; - Abstracts, #90173 (2015).

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GeoConvention 2014; - Abstracts, #90224 (2015).

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PANDAS: High Performance Geocomputing Software and its Potential Application in Deep Mining

Huilin Xing, Jinfang Gao, Yan Liu

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to visualize the microseismic events, to monitor and determine where/how the underground rupture proceeds during a hydraulic stimulation process, to determine...

A sliding box automatic relocation method based on geometric-mean reverse-time migration

Tong Bai, Zhendong Zhang, Malcolm C. A. White, Hongrui Qiu, Paul Williamson, Nori Nakata

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... summation in TRI with cross-correlations. GmRTM has been successfully applied for imaging earthquake rupture (Yang et al., 2020) and microseismic events...

Numerical modeling of low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing signals for mixed-mode fracture activation

Chaoyi Wang, David W. Eaton, Yuanyuan Ma

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... acquisition frequency for DAS enables seismic and microseismic events to be detected during hydraulic fracturing (Daley et al., 2013, Karrenbach et al...

Automation of passive seismic processing via machine learning and physics-informed methods

Ivan Lim Chen Ning, Laura Swafford, Mike Craven, Kevin Davies, Evan Earnest, Dean Thornton

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the circles in the top and bottom panels represents 497 P, and 588 S waves arrival picks, respectively. One can visually identify individual microseismic events...

Sensitivity Analysis of Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs

Xu Zhang, C. Mike Du

AAPG Special Volumes

.... J. Root, 1963, The behavior of naturally fractured reservoirs: SPE Journal, v. 3, p. 245255.Williams-Stroud, S., 2008, Using microseismic events...

Abstract: Estimating the Spectra of Small Events for the Purpose of Evaluating Microseismic Detection Threshholds; #90174 (2014)

N. Ackerley

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...Abstract: Estimating the Spectra of Small Events for the Purpose of Evaluating Microseismic Detection Threshholds; #90174 (2014) N. Ackerley AAPG...

Unconventional Resource Recovery Improvement Using Conventional Reservoir Engineering Strategies,#80088 (2010)

Russell Roundtree, John Wright, Jennifer Miskimins, author

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... with surface tilt meter surveys and downhole tracer and production logs. Today we have both surface and downhole tilt meters, surface and downhole microseismic...

Propped Fracs Are Collapsing - What Are the Causes and Ramifications?, #41621 (2015)

Mike Vincent

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.... • Zipper frac order - 03H - 02H Communication during frac confirmed with microseismic [different well set] Eagle Ford: Fractures Intersecting Offset...

The critical role of monitoring, verification, and accounting for geologic carbon dioxide storage projects

Sean I. Plasynski, John T. Litynski, Howard G. McIlvried, Derek M. Vikara, Rameshwar D. Srivastava

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... and application to geologic storage of MVA tools, such as two-dimensional and three-dimensional seismic and microseismic, as well as the testing of new cost...

Monitoring technology to enable characterization of CCUS reservoirs

Shauna Oppert, Jose Adachi, Dean Thornton, Andrew Royle

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... fault reactivation or microseismic events, out of zone injection, or even fracturing into the overburden. Subsurface data enables model calibration...

Magnetotelluric Monitoring of Unconventional Energy Resource Development: Disruptive Technology or Damp Squib?

Graham Heinson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... with overlying aquifers. To date, microseismic monitoring has been the primary and most successful geophysical technique, widely used for many types...

Lithology-Controlled Stress Variations: A Case Study of the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma

Xiaodong Ma, Mark Zoback

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... volumes of the proppants were low and the vertical distribution of microseismic events was generally limited (Figures 2c and 3c). Albeit with scatter...

Optimizing Well Spacing and Completion Design Using Simulation Models Calibrated to the Hydraulic Fracture Test Site 2 (HFTS-2) Dataset

Sriram Pudugramam, Rohan J. Irvin, Mark McClure, Garrett Fowler, Fadila Bessa, Yu Zhao, Jichao Han, Han Li, Arjun Kohli, Mark D. Zoback

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... microseismic arrays, pressure gauges, core-through data, image logs, DFITs, proppant-in-cuttings analysis, interference tests, and production data. Finally...

A Study of the Geomechanic and Microseismic Responses of Different Rocks to the Injection of CO2: Implication for Carbon Sequestration

Blessed C.A. Amoah, Son T. Dang, Mark E. Curtis, Chandra S. Rai

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A Study of the Geomechanic and Microseismic Responses of Different Rocks to the Injection of CO2: Implication for Carbon Sequestration Blessed C.A....

Abstract: Orientation Analysis of Borehole Geophones in Vertical and Deviated Wells: Calibration Consistency; #90174 (2014)

Peter G. Gagliardi and Don C. Lawton

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... in the acquisition of vertical seismic profiles (VSP) and increasingly in microseismic monitoring, in which data recorded by these geophones are used...

Abstracts: 2-D Finite-difference Modelling of Pore-pressure Diffusion in Heterogeneous Anisotropic Porolelastic Media: Implications for Induced Microseismicity; #90173 (2015)

David W. Eaton

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... are orders-of-magnitude smaller than empirical hydraulic diffusivity derived from microseismic monitoring data. This suggests that, while pore...

Role of Natural Fracturing in Production from the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota, by Stephen D. Sturm and Ernest Gomez, #50199 (2009)

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Seismic Methodologies Adapted for Use in Acoustic Logging, #41666 (2015).

Shreya B. Ley, Partha Biswas

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... undetected. For this last issue, we need look no further than seismic and microseismic techniques for guidance. Due to issues with signal attenuation...