Techniques to estimate fracture effectiveness when mapping low-magnitude microseismicity

Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 80th Annual Meeting 2010, SEG 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2075-2079

  Williams Stroud, Sherilyn ^a   Billingsley, Randal L ^b  

^a MicroSeismic Inc   (United States)

^b Scout Downhole Sanvean Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; MAPPING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; GEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC FRACTURE MODELS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84927131702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3513253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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