Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing

GM Atkinson, DW Eaton, N Igonin - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
As recently as 2015, it was common in the scientific literature to find assertions that the risk
of triggering a damaging earthquake by hydraulic fracturing (HF)—an industrial process …

Failure mechanism of rock masses with complex geological conditions in a large underground cavern: a case study

JS Zhao, SQ Duan, BR Chen, L Li, BG He, PX Li… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reasonable and accurate identification of the failure mechanism of rock masses is of great
significance for achieving a comprehensive and thorough understanding of the fracture …

A review of the current status of induced seismicity monitoring for hydraulic fracturing in unconventional tight oil and gas reservoirs

L Li, J Tan, DA Wood, Z Zhao, D Becker, Q Lyu, B Shu… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
During the past decades, significant progress has been made in the development of induced
seismicity monitoring for related human activities. Hydraulic fracturing and induced …

Seismic wave attenuation and dispersion resulting from wave-induced flow in porous rocks—A review

TM Müller, B Gurevich, M Lebedev - Geophysics, 2010 - library.seg.org
One major cause of elastic wave attenuation in heterogeneous porous media is wave-
induced flow of the pore fluid between heterogeneities of various scales. It is believed that …

Petroleum reservoir characterization using downhole microseismic monitoring

SC Maxwell, J Rutledge, R Jones, M Fehler - Geophysics, 2010 - library.seg.org
Imaging of microseismic data is the process by which we use information about the source
locations, timing, and mechanisms of the induced seismic events to make inferences about …

[หนังสือ][B] Microseismic imaging of hydraulic fracturing: Improved engineering of unconventional shale reservoirs

S Maxwell - 2014 - library.seg.org
Microseismic monitoring is the key technology to image hydraulic fractures. With the recent
industry focus on unconventional resources and the associated need for effective hydraulic …

Fracturing with carbon dioxide: from microscopic mechanism to reservoir application

X Song, Y Guo, J Zhang, N Sun, G Shen, X Chang… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Water fracturing is widely employed as a reservoir-stimulating technology for the recovery of
unconventional oil and gas. However, the process suffers from massive water consumption …

Tensile earthquakes: Theory, modeling, and inversion

V Vavryčuk - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tensile earthquakes are earthquakes which combine shear and tensile motions on a fault
during the rupture process. The geometry of faulting is described by four angles: strike, dip …