Faulting and seismicity associated with fluid extraction

DC Rocks 2001 - 38th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 885-894

  Chanpura, Rajesh A ^a,b   Germanovich, Leonid N ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EARTHQUAKES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

COLLOCATION TECHNIQUES; DEPLETED RESERVOIRS; FAULT REACTIVATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MOHR-COULOMB FAILURE CRITERION; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; RESERVOIR DEPLETION; STRESS PERTURBATIONS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 85010437833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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