Fracture characterization in shale and tight reservoirs using horizontal well sonic logging data

Peng Liu, Ning Li, Hongliang Wu, Hao Zhao, Mengsheng Zhang, Huajun Fan, Kai Jiang, Kewen Wang, Yongjian Zeng

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and evaluate the fractures in the shale and tight reservoirs. In this paper, the response characteristics of Stoneley wave and dipole S-wave to fractures...

Modeling Carbonate Microfacies in the Context of High-Frequency Dynamic Relative Sea-Level and Environmental Changes

Guy H. Spence , Maurice E. Tucker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... triangular plots fails to identify the systematic and gradational nature of stratigraphic change in carbonate sedimentation in response to marine...

Verification of dynamic strain field measurements made with DAS during active-source vibration by quantitative comparison to geophones

Peter G. Hubbard, Joseph Vantassel, Brady R. Cox, James W. Rector, Michael Yust, Kenichi Soga

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... between DAS and geophone surface array measurements when a fiber optic cable with good internal coupling is well coupled to the ground through trenching...

Feeling the Pressure on Infill Development

Sam Young, Ellen S. Williams, Rachel Stocking, Peter Morton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... monitored the infill well stimulations with microseismic, which measures the acoustic response of fracturing, and electromagnetic (EM) fluid tracking. EM...

Petrography and Reservoir Physics I: Objective Classification of Reservoir Porosity (1)

ROBERT EHRLICH , STERLING JAMES CRABTREE , KATHLEEN O. HORKOWITZ , and JOHN P. HORKOWITZ

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoir--effect on productivity and log response, Rodessa Limestone (Lower Cretaceous), east Texas basin: AAPG Bulletin, v. 67, no. 9, p. 1391-1399...

Temporal and lateral variation in the development of growth faults and growth strata in western Niger Delta, Nigeria

Hamed Fazli Khani, Stefan Back

AAPG Bulletin

... structure is superposed by an array of younger regional growth faults displacing a kilometer-thick sedimentary overburden that accumulated...

Mapping Unconventional Reservoir Stress Conditions: An Integrated Workflow Using Geological, Stimulation and Microseismic Data

Orlando J. Teran

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... focal mechanisms to investigate the dynamic response of the reservoir during and after stimulation. Focal mechanisms are derived using full waveform...

AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7: Multidimensional Basin Modeling, Chapter 17: Constraining the Gamble-Stochastic Techniques and Quantifying Uncertainties in Basin Modeling

Zwach, C., Arnd Wilhelms

AAPG Special Volumes

... exploration. A probability function (uniform, normal, lognormal, or triangular) can therefore be assigned to each of the input parameters to account...

Using Microseismicity to Understand Subsurface Fracture Systems and Increase the Effectiveness of Completions: Eagle Ford Shale, Texas; #41186 (2013)

John P. Detring and Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

Search and Discovery.com

... the hydraulic fracture design. Microseismic data collected using a surface array allowed the full geometry of the result to be viewed with no directional bias...

Prediction of Sandstone Geometry in the Upper Cretaceous Shannon Sandstone in the Northern Powder River Basin

George W. Shurr, Charles L. Nelson, John T. Jenkins Jr.

Wyoming Geological Association

... (Stubblefield et al, 1984a). A discussion of this paper suggests alternatively that the shelf ridges formed in response to storm-generated current flows...

Enso and Sunspot Cycles in Varved Eocene Oil Shales from Image Analysis

Maurizio Ripepe , Lillian T. Roberts , Alfred G. Fischer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... chose was that of image analysis of acetate replicas. This was carried out by a linked array of microscope, video camera, digitizer and computer...

Geologic Stereo Mapping of Geologic Structures with SPOT Satellite Data: Geologic Note (1)

Z. BERGER , T. H. LEE WILLIAMS , and D. W. ANDERSON

AAPG Bulletin

... array of charge-coupled detectors, or CCDs (CCDs are the imaging system used in modern camcorders as well). The SPOT satellite can operate in two...

Simulation of the Capitan Shelf Margin (Late Permian, Guadalupian) of West Texas/New Mexico, a Response to Eustatic Change and an Example of the Use of Sedpak

C. G. St. C. Kendall, J. Strobel, J. Tang, P. Moore, R. Cannon, J. Bezdek, G. Biswas

Special Publications of SEPM

... superimposed. 3 m cycles produced the most realistic response in the simulaDue to the limitations of the array that could be handled tion. by the program...

Direction-dependent strain transfer function of DAS considering gauge length and pulse shape with its implications on high spatial resolution acquisitions

Peter Hubbard

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... as spatial lowpass filters. The combination of these filters determines the theoretical response of the DAS assuming the optical fiber is coupled...

Case History of DAS Fiber-Based Microseismic and Strain Data, Monitoring Horizontal Hydraulic Stimulations Using Various Tools to Highlight Physical Deformation Processes (Part A)

Robert Hull, Robert Meek, Hector Bello, Douglas Miller

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 2695282   (2) We can only provide a depth and distance from the observational well for the MS events with our array deployed vertically...

The Impact of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Hydraulic Fracture Geometry: Integration of Microseismic and Seismic Reservoir Characterization; #40993 (2012)

Shawn Maxwell and Mark Norton

Search and Discovery.com

... for economic gas production 240 m Expected Response Plug and perf 8 stages per well Slickwater + 20% N2 10 m3/min 1100 m3 300 kg/m3 max prop...

Acquisition and Ananlysis of Wide-Angle Reflection and Refraction Seismic Data

Paul L. Stoffa

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... of the receiving array on the lead ship is a distance of an array length from the trailing ship's source array, a synthetic common-depth-point (CDP) aperture...

Improved Exploration, Appraisal and Production Monitoring with Multi-Transient EM Solutions

Search and Discovery.com

... response of the subsurface is recovered from these two measurements by deconvolution. Recovering the impulse responses simultaneously for an array...

Controlled-Source Electromagnetic (CSEM): A Game Changing Technology for Frontier Deepwater Exploration? A Users Perspective

Herry Maulana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the subsurface for thin, high resistive bodies. It employs a vesseltowed Horizontal Electric Dipole (HED) source over an array of seabed receivers which record...

Multichannel Seismic Operations for CCOP/SOPAC Cruise, Leg 3, Solomon Islands

D. M. Mann

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... of the trigger was provided b y thumbwheel switches cali­ brated to 0.1 millisecond. T i m i n g the array to ± 0 . 5 milliseconds was accomplished...

Predictive Fracture Mechanics of Normal Faults: Field Examples from the Española Basin, New Mexico

K.E. Carter Krogh

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... reflects development of an initially subparallel crack array that grew within the EW-directed extensional remote stress field. Sequential development...

ABSTRACT: Electrofacies Analysis For Coal Lithotype Profiling Based On High-Resolution Wireline Log Data

A. Roslin, J. Esterle

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

..., and affect reservoir response to gas retention and production. The traditional approach to lithotype analysis is based on a visual characterisation...

Abstract: An Integrated Approach to Reservoir Appraisal and Monitoring Using Well Log, Seismic and CSEM Data (Geophysics Paper 6)

Lucy MacGregor, James Tomlinson, Skander Hili

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... to this electro-magnetic field is recorded by an array of receivers located on the sea-floor. By interpreting the recorded response using forward...

Understanding Drilling Hazards Through the Use LWD Resistivity Case Study: Resistivity Inversion

Adjie Setiawan, Sigit Sulistyo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to listen to what the hole is telling us. The array of resistivity measurements from LWD resistivity modern propagation not only provides rich...

Upside down Rayleigh-Marchenko imaging: Towards a practical exact redatuming scheme for ocean bottom acquisitions

Ning Wang, Matteo Ravasi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) where R, g, and f represent the reflection response, the Green’s functions, and the focusing functions, while superscripts are used to define...