Subsurface carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage for a sustainable energy future

S Krevor, H De Coninck, SE Gasda… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Gigatonne scale geological storage of carbon dioxide and energy (such as hydrogen) will
be central aspects of a sustainable energy future, both for mitigating CO2 emissions and …

The physical mechanisms of induced earthquakes

MJA Moein, C Langenbruch, R Schultz… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic operations involving underground fluid extraction or injection can cause
unexpectedly large and even damaging earthquakes, despite operational and regulatory …

Stress path analysis for characterization of in situ stress state and effect of reservoir depletion on present-day stress magnitudes: reservoir geomechanical modeling in …

A Radwan, S Sen - Natural Resources Research, 2021 - Springer
A reservoir geomechanical modeling has been attempted in the hydrocarbon-bearing
Miocene formations in the offshore Badri field, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Pore pressure …

Stress perturbation from aseismic slip drives the seismic front during fluid injection in a permeable fault

N Wynants‐Morel, F Cappa… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fluid pressure changes affect fault stability and can promote the initiation of earthquakes
and aseismic slip. However, the relationship between seismic and aseismic fault slip during …

Fault reactivation during fluid pressure oscillations: Transition from stable to unstable slip

C Noël, FX Passelègue, C Giorgetti… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐pressure fluid injection in deep georeservoirs can induce earthquakes. Recent
observations suggest that cyclic injections might trigger less seismicity than monotonic …

Data-driven spatiotemporal assessment of the event-size distribution of the Groningen extraction-induced seismicity catalogue

AG Muntendam-Bos, N Grobbe - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
For induced seismicity, the non-stationary, heterogeneous character of subsurface stress
perturbations can be a source of spatiotemporal variations in the scaling of event sizes; one …

Stress‐based and convolutional forecasting of injection‐induced seismicity: application to the Otaniemi geothermal reservoir stimulation

T Kim, JP Avouac - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Induced seismicity observed during Enhanced Geothermal Stimulation at Otaniemi, Finland
is modeled using both statistical and physical approaches. The physical model produces …

Earthquake nucleation characteristics revealed by seismicity response to seasonal stress variations induced by gas production at Groningen

M Acosta, JP Avouac, JD Smith… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deterministic earthquake prediction remains elusive, but time‐dependent probabilistic
seismicity forecasting seems within reach thanks to the development of physics‐based …

The 2020 Westmorland, California earthquake swarm as aftershocks of a slow slip event sustained by fluid flow

K Sirorattanakul, ZE Ross… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Swarms are bursts of earthquakes without an obvious mainshock. Some have been
observed to be associated with transient aseismic fault slip, while others are thought to be …

Earthquake growth inhibited at higher Coulomb stress change rate at Groningen

Y Tamama, M Acosta, SJ Bourne… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gas extraction from the Groningen gas field resulted in significant induced seismicity. We
analyze the magnitude‐frequency distribution of these earthquakes in space, time and in …