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Items in this Collection
- 6Microseismic
- 1Acoustic emission
- 1Algorithm
- 1Caprock integrity
- 1Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
- 1Crosscorrelation
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Spring 2020
Seismic events or earthquakes occur due to stress perturbations in the sub-surface and are related to the generation of new faults or reactivation of pre-existing faults. Completeness of an earthquake catalogue is critical for gaining a better understanding of sub-surface processes and this can...
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Hydraulic fracture monitoring: Integrated analysis of borehole logs, seismic reflectivity, microseismicity, ISIP analysis and PKN modelling.
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Hydraulic fracturing operations in Montney formation present challenges due to anomalous microseismic behavior and inconsistent cloud patterns. Fracture propagation is mostly uni-directional, moving predominantly towards the northeast. However, some stages exhibit behavior contrary to this trend....
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Spring 2018
Microseismic events are often recorded during hydraulic fracturing stimulations of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs like tight sands and shales, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, mine development and carbon dioxide sequestration. Most applications involve locating and tracking these events over...
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Integration of microseismic and time-lapse seismic data with application to a heavy oil reservoir
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Thermal heavy oil extraction techniques are high temperature and pressure procedures to produce heavy oil. Elevated temperature and pressures alter the subsurface stresses, causing shear failure of rock within and surrounding the steam front. The steam also introduces volumetric changes at the...
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Fall 2013
Microseismic event location provides a plethora of information about underground processes such as hydraulic fracturing, steam injection or mining and volcano activities. Nevertheless, accuracy is limited by acquisition geometry and errors in the velocity model and time picks. Although...
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Fall 2016
Two major applications of microseismic (MS) monitoring in petroleum engineering are hydraulic fracturing operations and caprock integrity assurance. With respect to caprock integrity, this research has investigated the observation of the absence of detectable magnitudes of microseismic events as...