Long-period, long-duration seismic events during hydraulic stimulation of shale and tight-gas reservoirs - Part 1: Waveform characteristics

Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Das, Indrajit ^a   Zoback, Mark D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TRANSFORM FAULTS; WELL STIMULATION;

DEFORMATION PROCESS; HYDRAULIC STIMULATIONS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC TREMORS; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS; WAVEFORM CHARACTERISTICS;

TIGHT GAS;

ARRIVAL TIME; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; P-WAVE; PERMEABILITY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NATURAL GAS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMICITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

EID: 84894447359     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/GEO2013-0164.1     Document Type: Article

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