Hydraulic fracturing stimulates the flow of gas or oil in a shale play by activating or creating microcracks in a target formation. The identifications of the location and the fracturing type of these ruptures are critical information for such efforts. In this study, we show that a full waveform moment tensor inversion is an objective way to provide this information with a case study using real microseismic data from the Permian Basin.

Presentation Date: Monday, October 12, 2020

Session Start Time: 1:50 PM

Presentation Time: 3:55 PM

Location: 360A

Presentation Type: Oral

Keywords:
reservoir characterization, cambridge university press, hydraulic fracturing, artificial intelligence, microcrack, machine learning, upstream oil & gas, tensor, exploration geophysicist 10, green function
Subjects:
Hydraulic Fracturing, Reservoir Characterization, Seismic processing and interpretation
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2020. Society of Exploration Geophysicists
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