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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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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 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...
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Numerical Assessment of Caprock Integrity in SAGD Operations Considering Mechanical Anisotropic Behavior of Shale Layers
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There has been an increasing awareness of the importance of caprock integrity during Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) operations. However, mathematical tools that have been developed for caprock integrity studies have not incorporated an important characteristic of cap shales, which is the...
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Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for SAGD Projects by Considering the Intrinsic Shale Anisotropy
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Ehsan Rahmati, Alireza Nouri, Vahidoddin Fattahpour, Japan Trivedi
This paper investigates the effect of anisotropic behavior of caprock shales on the caprock failure pressure in SAGD projects. Shales and mudstones exhibit strong anisotropy at the micro and macro scales. However, the anisotropic behavior has been neglected in the existing published works on...
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Spring 2021
Alberta’s oil sands deposits are the third-largest proven crude oil reserve in the world. However, only 20% of the bitumen in Alberta’s oil sands are shallow enough to be recoverable by surface mining techniques; the remaining 80% can only be extracted using in-situ techniques that involve the...