Comparison of surface and borehole locations of induced seismicity

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 809-820

  Eisner, Leo ^a   Hulsey, B J ^a   Duncan, Peter ^a   Jurick, Dana ^b   Werner, Heigl ^c   Keller, William ^d  

^a MicroSeismic Inc   (United States)

^b Devon Energy   (United States)

^c APACHE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic fracturing; Locations; Microseismic monitoring; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; ARRAY OF RECEIVERS; DATA SETS; DOWNHOLES; EVENT LOCATION; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INDUCED SEISMICITY; LOCATION ACCURACY; LOCATION UNCERTAINTY; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; MICROSEISMIC MONITORING; RADIAL DISTANCE; SINGLE PHASE; SURFACE ARRAY; SURFACE MONITORING; UNCERTAINTY; VELOCITY MODEL; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; LIBRARIES; MONITORING; SEISMOLOGY;

LOCATION;

ARRIVAL TIME; BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; RESERVOIR-INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955748979     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00867.x     Document Type: Article

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