Location of hydraulic fractures using microseismic techniques

JA Albright, CF Pearson - 1980 - osti.gov
Microearthquakes with magnitudes ranging between-6 and-2 have been observed in three
successive massive injections of water at the Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy …

Seismic imaging using microearthquakes induced by hydraulic fracturing

LV Block, CH Cheng, MC Fehler, WS Phillips - Geophysics, 1994 - library.seg.org
Seismic imaging using microearthquakes induced by hydraulic fracturing produces a three-
dimensional (3-D), S-wave velocity model of the fractured zone, improves the calculated …

Acoustic emissions as a tool for hydraulic fracture location: Experience at the Fenton Hill Hot Dry Rock site

JN Albright, CF Pearson - Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, 1982 - onepetro.org
Microearthquakes with magnitudes between− 6 and− 2 have been observed in three
successive massive injections of water at the hot dry rock geothermal energy development …

[PDF][PDF] Seismic monitoring of EGS stimulation tests at the Coso geothermal field, California, using microearthquake locations and moment tensors

BR Julian, GR Foulger, FC Monastero - Thirty-Fourth Workshop on …, 2009 - es.stanford.edu
We calculated high-resolution relative locations and full moment tensors for
microearthquakes that occurred before, during, and following EGS stimulation experiments …

Locating microearthquakes induced by hydraulic fracturing in crystalline rock

L House - Geophysical Research Letters, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Microearthquakes induced by hydraulic fracturing in crystalline rock at a depth of 3.5 km
were located with a precision of better than 30 m to obtain information about the geometry …

Stress control of seismicity patterns observed during hydraulic fracturing experiments at the Fenton Hill hot dry rock geothermal energy site, New Mexico

MC Fehler - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 1989 - Elsevier
Seismicity accompanying hydraulic injections into granitic rock is often diffuse rather than
falling along a single plane. This diffuse zone of seismicity cannot be attributed to systematic …

Imaging hydraulic fractures in a geothermal reservoir

BR Julian, GR Foulger, FC Monastero… - Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
An injection experiment at the Coso geothermal field in eastern California in March 2005
caused a swarm of microearthquakes that was recorded by a local network of three …

Monitoring the effects of hydraulic stimulation by microseismic event location: a case study

AS Batchelor, R Baria, K Hearn - SPE Annual Technical Conference …, 1983 - onepetro.org
One of the most promising techniques for monitoring the effects of hydraulic stimulation or
fracturing is the use of the induced microseismicity to define the shape and orientation of the …

Characterization of induced seismicity near an injection well at the northwest Geysers geothermal field, California

G Viegas, L Hutchings - Geothermal Resources Council …, 2011 - episodesplatform.eu
We investigate the temporal and spatial dependence of source parameters of micro-
earthquakes (< M3) before and during water injection at the Northwest Geysers between …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of characteristics of micro-earthquakes observed during hydraulic stimulation operations in Ogachi, Hijiori and Cooper Basin HDR projects

H Kaieda, S Sasaki, D Wyborn - Proceedings of the world …, 2010 - scholar.archive.org
ABSTRACT In Hot Dry Rock (HDR) or Hot Fractured Rock (HFR) geothermal energy
development, micro-earthquake events were observed to evaluate the location and size of …