Using microseismicity to map cotton valley hydraulic fractures

2000 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Urbancic, Theodore I ^a   Rutledge, James ^b  

^a Engineering Seismology Group   (Canada)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR; GROWTH PATTERNS; MAJOR PRINCIPAL STRESS; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; MICROSEISMICITY; PREFERENTIAL GROWTH; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85054101786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

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