Cotton valley hydraulic fracture imaging project: Feasibility of determining fracture behavior using microseismic event locations and source parameters

1998 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Urbancic, T I ^a   Zinno, R J ^b  

^a Engineering Seismology Group   (Canada)

^b Union Pacific Resources Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; LOCATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; FRACTURE TREATMENT; FRACTURING PROCESS; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; SEISMIC ENERGY RELEASE; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84861607778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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