Horizontal vs. vertical borehole-based microseismic monitoring: Which is better?

SPE Unconventional Gas Conference 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 223-228

  Maxwell, Shawn ^a   Le Calvez, Joel ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN STUDIES; HORIZONTAL ARRAYS; HORIZONTAL SECTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; MICROSEISMIC MONITORING; MICROSEISMICITY; POTENTIAL MONITORING; TREATMENT WELLS; VERTICAL BOREHOLE; VERTICAL SECTION; VERTICAL WELLS;

DATA STRUCTURES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 77954223524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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