Production Analysis and Mechanistic Modelling for Evaluation of Shale Plays

Prob Thararoop

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... singlewell models that incorporate core, seismic, microseismic, geosteering, and petrophysical data are developed to analyze drainage volumes. Once...

First Results of Inaugural Deployments of the Australian National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Fleet

Alexey Goncharov, Ashby Cooper, Peter Chia, Michal Malinowski

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... composition of vertical component seismogram at ~75 km distance between the OBS and airguns (Fig. 4a) shows a very prominent microseismic peak at low...

Fracture Surface Extraction and Stress Field Estimation From Three-Dimensional Microseismic Data

Dylan Copeland, Alfred Lacazette

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Fracture Surface Extraction and Stress Field Estimation From Three-Dimensional Microseismic Data Dylan Copeland, Alfred Lacazette URTeC 2155064...

Advanced digital tools for passive seismic monitoring of a heavy oil field at Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada

Adarsh Kumar Gupta, Stefano Scaini, Ravi Singh, Simona Costin, Colin Brisco, Raj Janakkumar Bhutwala, Shelly Dutta, Monomita Chattopadhyay, Divyanshu Yadav, Taylor Fink

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... or exceeded. Currently, the PS network at Cold Lake comprises approximately 90 passive seismic monitoring wells, making it one of the largest microseismic...

Fiber Optic Strain Monitoring of Hydraulic Stimulation: Geomechanical Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis

Zhishuai Zhang, Zijun Fang, Joe Stefani, James DiSiena, Dimitri Bevc, Ivan Lim Chen Ning, Kelly Hughes, Yunhui Tan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and temperature, with geological data such as cores, and with geophysics data such as microseismic and time-lapse seismic, to provide a comprehensive...

A Fast Workflow for Uncertainty Assessment of Well Spacing and Pad Sequence in the Permian Basin

Ghazal Dashti, Baosheng Liang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and application. Alternatively, even though it does not directly detect hydraulic fracture propagation induced by tensile failure, microseismic...

A Systematic Interpretation of Subsurface Proppant Concentration from Drilling Mud Returns: Case Study from Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site (HFTS-2) in Delaware Basin

Debotyam Maity, Jordan Ciezobka

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in stimulation response based on independent observations such as image logs, microseismic attributes as well as DAS response, all of which tend to corroborate...

Precursory Detection of Casing Deformation and Induced Seismicity in Unconventional Reservoirs, via Real-Time Surface Pressure Data Analytics

Thomas de Boer, Matthew Adams, Andrew McMurray, Giovanni Grasselli

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., with high-risk intervals identified hours before microseismic detections or caliper-confirmed deformation. Ongoing deployments in the Eagle Ford...

AAPG Southwest Section, April 6-10, 2013, Fredericksburg, Texas, USA, - Abstracts, #90164 (2013).

Search and Discovery.com

Abstract: Detection Sensitivity of Local Tectonic Earthquakes by Borehole Geophone Arrays: A Case Study From Central Alberta; #90224 (2015)

Enrico Caffagni and David W. Eaton

Search and Discovery.com

... sensitivity. In this study, we investigate the use of a downhole geophone array deployed for microseismic monitoring of a hydraulic fracture treatment...

Abstract: Towards Multiscale Multiphysical Modelling of Unconventional Gas Reservoirs; #90234 (2015)

Huilin Xing, Jinfang Gao, Yan Liu, Quanshu Li, Zhiting Han, Qin Li, Fei Ren, Jie Yi, Steve Tyson, and Hans Muhlhaus

Search and Discovery.com

... occurs. PANDAS/Pre has been developed and applied to visualize the microseismic events, to monitor and determine where/how the underground rupture...

Key considerations for Hydraulic Fracturing of Gas Shales; #80100 (2010)

Randy LaFollette

Search and Discovery.com

... in the fracturing process, and treatment monitoring via microseismic. Copyright © AAPG. Serial rights given by author. For all other rights contact...

Induced and Natural Fractures in Shales - A Geomechanical Perspective; #40849 (2011)

Gary D. Couples

Search and Discovery.com

... methods, help to understand these processes. Reference Maxwell, S.C., C. Cipolla, and M. Mack, 2010, Microseismic imaging of hydraulic fracture complexity...

Natural Fractures and its Implications to Engineering Design, #41243 (2013)

Gang Han

Search and Discovery.com

... on Fracture Containment Microseismic events out of zone Microseismic events in zone Courtesy of Schlumberger Conclusions • Sedimentary rock always...

Determining Optimum Well Spacing Using Fracture Characterization in Unconventional Reservoirs; #80418 (2014)

Vivek Sahai, Greg Jackson, Rakesh Rai

Search and Discovery.com

... logs, and/or microseismic, can be used to aid in the identification of the longest repeated half-length. This work demonstrates the challenges associated...

Extracting Large-Scale Fracture Networks; #41818 (2016)

Ayon Kumar Dey

Search and Discovery.com

... microseismic events. On the right is a section view, taken along the length of the lateral. This shows the lateral section of the well intersecting...

Geomechanical Study of Hydraulic Fracturing in Woodford Shale, Oklahoma, #41909 (2016).

Xiaodong Ma, Mark D. Zoback

Search and Discovery.com

... of microseismic events away from the well both vertically and laterally. We utilized Elemental Capture Spectroscopy (ECS) logs to determine the content of clay...

Using Geomechanical Modeling to Quantify the Impact of Faults on Multiple Phases of Unconventional Resource Production, #80522 (2016).

Nicholas Umholtz

Search and Discovery.com

... strain and drainage pathways is described and validated using microseismic data. Thirdly, the ability of this model to identify the poor hydraulic...

Unlocking Unconventional Reservoir with a Fully Integrated Reservoir Simulation

Peng Ye, Valerie Hallam, Frank Hovland, Lee Nguyen, Faisal Rasdi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and production prediction in a multi-well setting. They modeled asymmetric growth of fracture as indicated by microseismic data and investigated...

Boosting self-supervised blind-spot networks via transfer learning

Claire Birnie, Tariq Alkhalifah

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) Figure 1: Comparison between microseismic events in (a,b) field seismic recordings, and (c,d) noisy and (e,f) clean synthetic data for supervised...

The potential of magnetic field measurements in fracking monitoring and anisotropic scenarios

A. Curcio

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... placement strategy and for the geoscientific understanding of the reservoir. Although the microseismic technology is a useful tool, reliable location...

Advanced Petrophysical, Geological, Geophysical and Geomechanical Reservoir Characterization - Key to the Successful Implementation of a Geo-Engineered Completion Optimization Program in the Eagle Ford Shale

Tie Sun, German Merletti, Hemali Patel, Mitchell C. Graff, Stephan Cadwallader, Omar Aguirre, Jeff Wampler, Ivan R. Gil, Herbert M. Sebastian, David Spain

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Surveillance work included buried microseismic survey providing insight on large-scale interwell reactions during completions, and unique gas, water...

Fault MLReal: A fault delineation study for the Decatur CO2 field data using neural network predicted passive seismic locations

Hanchen Wang, Yinpeng Chen, Tariq Alkhalifah, Youzuo Lin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... data. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach in a field case study involving CO2 injection microseismic data from the Decatur area. The successful...

Fracture Analysis Before and After Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale Using the Mohr-Coulomb Failure Criteria

Kaitlin Evans, Randy Toth, Tobi Ore, Jarrett Smith,Natalia Bannikova, Timothy Carr, Payam Kavousi Ghahfarokhi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of microseismic trends. (Wilson and Sullivan, 2016; Wilson et al., 2018). Shmin was assumed to be in the direction 90° off of Shmax. The largest principal stress...

Pore Pressure Mapping Using Microseismicity and Borehole Data

Leo Eisner, Dmitry Alexandrov, Umair bin Waheed

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...e of and location of the seismic event. We then map these pressure values into the corresponding microseismic event locations and obtain spac...