Interpretation of hydrocarbon microtremors as pore fluid oscillations driven by ambient seismic noise

Workshop Passive Seismic - Passive Seismic: Exploration and Monitoring Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Frehner, M ^a   Schmalholz, S M ^a   Holzner, R ^b   Podladchikov, Y Y ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Spectraseis Technologie AG   (Switzerland)

^c Physics of Geological Processes   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROCARBONS; SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION; EXPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCES; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PARTIALLY SATURATED; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC BACKGROUND NOISE; SPECTRAL MODIFICATIONS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84898992144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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