Inferring rock fracture evolution during reservoir stimulation from seismic anisotropy

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Wuestefeld, Andreas ^a,b   Verdon, James P ^a   Kendall, J Michael ^a   Rutledge, James ^c   Clarke, Huw ^a,d   Wookey, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Engineering Seismology Group   (Canada)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Cuadrilla Resources Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRACKS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TIGHT GAS;

ANISOTROPY ANALYSIS; FRACTURE EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC STIMULATIONS; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; RESERVOIR STIMULATIONS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS;

FRACTURE;

DATA SET; FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; PERMEABILITY; ROCK MECHANICS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOGRAM; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 84857252163     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0057.1     Document Type: Article

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