An Accurate and Efficient Fracture Propagation Model Auto-calibration Workflow for Unconventional Reservoirs

Chuxi Liu, Kan Wu, Jianfa Wu, Cheng Chang, Xuefeng Yang, Yiwen Gong, Edward Zhao, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... 2018. 3D Hydraulic Fracture Simulation Integrated with 4D Time-Lapse Multicomponent Seismic and Microseismic Interpretation, Wattenberg Field, Colorado...

The Role of Erosion by Fish in Shaping Topography Around Hudson Submarine Canyon

David C. Twichell, Churchill B. Grimes, Robert S. Jones , Kenneth W. Able

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Ecology: New York, John Wiley Press, 385 p. ROWE, G. T., KELLER, G., EDGERTON, H., STARESINIC, N., AND MACILLVAINE, J, 1974, Time-lapse photography...

Silt Aggregates in Laminated Marine Sediment Produced by Agglutinated Foraminifera

Jennifer Pike, Alan E.S. Kemp

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... used to construct the test (Bender 1992). Bowser and Bernhard (1994) used time-lapse microscopy to observe a similar two-stage mechanism of test...

AAPG GEO 2010 Middle East, Geoscience Conference & Exhibition, Innovative Geoscience Solutions – Meeting Hydrocarbon Demand in Changing Times, March 7-10, 2010 – Manama, Bahrain, #90105 (2010)

Search and Discovery.com

Subsea well clean-up without drilling rigs: transient analysis methods to support philosophy definition

Paul Fothergill, Sarah Lim-Rajani

Australian Energy Producers Journal

.... As a result of this time lapse, a gas cap may form in the tubing dependent on the loss of completion fluids to the reservoir. Hydrate management strategy...

Origin and Chronology of Alabama River Terraces

R. W. Maxwell, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... the terrace alluvium and brought to the laboratory for isotopic analysis. TERRACE CHRONOLOGY Time and chronology, either absolute or relative...

Using Geomechanical Modeling to Quantify the Impact of Natural Fractures on Well Performance and Microseismicity„Application to the Wolfcamp, Permian Basin

Ahmed Ouenes, Yamina Aimene, Nick Umholtz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...., 2015, Predicting Frac Stage Differential Stress and Microseismicity Using Geomechanical Modeling and Time Lapse Multi-Component Seismic - Application...

Workflow to Quantify and Estimate Future Parent-Child Depletion Impact on Production Performance: An Empirical Approach

David Delgado, Richard Cao, Hugh Grier, Peter Zannitto

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pressure gauges, time lapse geochemistry and iterative URTeC: 4009115 • • • 2 production interference tests that demonstrate the impact of depletion...

Characterizing Flow Paths in Peridotite Formations for CO2 Sequestration: Hydro-Mechanical Modelling of a Pilot Test in the UAE

Pedram Mahzari, Elham Kolahchian, Sulaiman Al Mani, Rahul M Fonseca, Afra Al Jaberi, Ali Mohamed Oasim, Nazar Salah Abdeen, Juerg M. Matter

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... fracture properties. These calibrated models were then compared with time-lapse geophysical surveys to evaluate their ability to predict...

3D real-time imaging for electromagnetic fracturing monitoring based on deep learning

Zhigang Wang, Yao Lu, Ying Hu, Yinchu Li, Ke Wang, Dikun Yang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... a data set made of many fracturing fluid models and time-lapse data images. The training is performed on a workstation until the best network is formed...

Reservoir Monitoring Technology

Lasse Amundsen, Martin Landrø

GEO ExPro Magazine

... in time-lapse (4D) seismic and multi-component ocean bottom seismic (OBS), with Optoplan's knowledge and experience in the field of optical sensing...

History of Oil: A Time for Reflection

M. Quentin Morton

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... I ­ ndicators (DHIs) and fluid contacts and ­ ovement via time-lapse surveys. m Fibre optics are in vogue instead of geophones in boreholes where...

A successful story of working with towed streamer and ocean-bottom node data on interpolation and image enhancement

Heather Yao, Amr Elsabaa, Nathaniel Cockrell, Dawit Desta, Ruoyu Gu, Christina Tapia, Nigel Hicks, Lauren Peschier

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to derive and apply minor time displacement fields to optimize trace alignment between surveys and account for any time lapse effects between the two surveys...

Simultaneous source acquisition, accuracy, and deblending

Ray Abma

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... amplitude variations smaller than 20 dB, that is, a factor of 10, is difficult. Small amplitude variations such as time-lapse changes are invisible...

Elastic Property Changes of Bitumen Reservoir duing Seam Injection

Search and Discovery.com

... substructure in the reservoir. The time-lapse seismic survey is expected to be powerful for monitoring the three-dimensional steam movement. However...

Abstract: Seismic Detection of Cracks in Carbonates Associated with Potash Mining; #90171 (2013)

Zimin Zhang and Robert R. Stewart

Search and Discovery.com

... that might compromise potash mining operations. For predicting cracks induced by mining processes, multi-component and repeated (time-lapse) seismic...

Simple Models for the Stress-Dependence of Anisotropic Seismic Velocities in Fractured Rock; #120053 (2012)

Richard L. Gibson, Jr. and Kai Gao

Search and Discovery.com

..., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA ([email protected]) Abstract Time-lapse seismic methods offer strong potential for monitoring...

Subseismic pathway prediction by three-dimensional structural restoration and strain analysis based on seismic interpretation

Jennifer Ziesch, David C. Tanner, and Charlotte M. Krawczyk

AAPG Bulletin

... subseismic scale fractures. In the Sleipner field (Norway), well log and cuttings, seismic attribute analysis, geomechanical modeling, and time-lapse...

Autogenic Hiatus in Fluviodeltaic Successions: Geometrical Modeling and Physical Experiments

Arti Tomer, Tetsuji Muto, Wonsuck Kim

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... boundary locations during each run were extracted from the time-lapse images. Figure 4. Sequential photos of the fluviodeltaic system constructed in run...

Carbon storage and CO2-enhanced oil recovery potential in the Temblor Formation, northeast McKittrick oilfield, San Joaquin Valley, California

Kelly J. Harrington and Janice M. Gillespie

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... measurements were limited, pressures over 10 yr spans were grouped together and examined to provide a time lapse picture of pressure changes in the reservoir...

Kerogen-Bitumen-Porosity Nexus: Insights from Multi-Basinal Collocated SEM-Optical Light Petrography

Shaina Kelly, Michelle Johnston, Bernard Lee, Richard San Martin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to relatively larger-scale macerals. Other collocated layers such as EDS and time-lapse “before and after” assessments are sometimes integrated...

Field Application of a Novel Multi-resolution Multi-well Unconventional Reservoir Simulation: History Matching and Parameter Identification

Jia Fu, Hongquan Chen, Changqing Yao, Shohei Sakaida, Erich Kerr, Andrew Johnson, Akhil Datta-Gupta, Ding Zhu, A. Daniel Hill

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Integration of time-lapse seismic data using the onset time approach: The impact of seismic survey frequency. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering...

Natural Hydrocarbon Seeps: Toward Understanding a Complex Natural System

Victor T. Jones, III, Patrick H. Myers, William O. Neal

GCAGS Transactions

... coordinates acquired every three minutes at the start of the GC analysis. The time lapse between collection of the water sample and the navigation time...

Experimental Production of Clay Rims by Macrobiotic Sediment Ingestion and Excretion Processes

Sarah J. Needham, Richard H. Worden, Duncan McIlroy

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... was digitally photographed, permitting a time-lapse study of bioturbation. Samples of fecal casts from the experiment and layered mud from the control...

Fortín de Piedra Gas Field … A Robust 3D Geomechanical Model that Integrates an Unconventional Vaca Muerta Formation Dataset and Captures Structural Effects on Stress Field Distributions

Alejandro Laurora, Raúl Varela, Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and the presence of natural fractures have also been observed in the Barnett shale (McClure & Zoback, 2013) and from differences in time-lapse shut...