Microseismic monitoring for fracturing in the Colorado Shales above a thermal oil recovery operation

Vail Rocks 1999 - 37th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1069-1076

  Boone, Thomas J ^a   Nechtschein, Stephane ^a   Smith, Richard ^a   Youck, Daryl ^a   Talebi, Shahriar ^b  

^a Imperial Oil Ltd Resources Limited   (Canada)

^b Natural Resources Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; MONITORING; OIL FIELDS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

ALBERTA , CANADA; CASING DAMAGE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING SYSTEMS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OIL FIELD APPLICATIONS; OIL RECOVERY OPERATIONS; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MICROSEISMIC MONITORING;

EID: 85054299198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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