Microseismic monitoring developments in hydraulic fracture stimulation

M Van Der Baan, D Eaton, M Dusseault - Isrm international conference …, 2013 - onepetro.org
The last decade has seen a significantly increased interest in microseismic monitoring by
the hydrocarbon industry due to the recent surge in unconventional resources such as shale …

Crustal anisotropy in the Martian lowlands from surface waves

C Beghein, J Li, E Weidner, R Maguire… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The largest seismic event ever recorded on Mars, with a moment magnitude of 4.7±0.2, is
the first event to produce both Love and Rayleigh wave signals. We measured their group …

The robustness of seismic attenuation measurements using fixed-and variable-window time-frequency transforms

C Reine, M van der Baan, R Clark - Geophysics, 2009 - library.seg.org
Frequency-based methods for measuring seismic attenuation are used commonly in
exploration geophysics. To measure the spectrum of a nonstationary seismic signal, different …

Interpretation of resonance frequencies recorded during hydraulic fracturing treatments

JB Tary, M Van der Baan… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic fracturing treatments are often monitored by strings of geophones deployed in
boreholes. Instead of picking discrete events only, we here use time‐frequency …

Applications of high-resolution time-frequency transforms to attenuation estimation

JB Tary, M van der Baan, RH Herrera - Geophysics, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Attenuation estimates quantify the loss of energy of propagating seismic waves due to
anelastic processes. It is often carried out in the frequency domain. The most well-known …

The application of a homemade boomer source in offshore seismic survey: From field data acquisition to post-processing

J Zheng, L Li, J Xie, T Yan, B Jiang, X Huang… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work presents a case study about applying a homemade boomer source working with a
well-designed field geometry in an offshore seismic survey. Some measurements were …

Submarine fluid flow system feeding methane emission in the northern South China Sea

J Wang, A Li, LH Wang, S Wu, Q Li - Basin Research, 2024 - earthdoc.org
Submarine fluid flow system can transport methane into ocean. However, its evolution is not
fully understood, particularly methane migration through the gas hydrate stability zone …

Potential use of resonance frequencies in microseismic interpretation

JB Tary, M Van der Baan - The Leading Edge, 2012 - library.seg.org
Continuous passive recordings of microseismic experiments can be used to detect and trace
the modifications in frequency content during hydraulic fracturing or heavy-oil steam …

Fractal heterogeneities in sonic logs and low-frequency scattering attenuation

TJ Browaeys, S Fomel - Geophysics, 2009 - library.seg.org
Cycles in sedimentary strata exist at different scales and can be described by fractal
statistics. We use von Kármán's autocorrelation function to model heterogeneities in sonic …

Q-factor estimation from surface seismic data in the time-frequency domain: A comparative analysis

YJ Xue, JX Cao, XJ Wang, HK Du, W Chen, JC You… - Geophysics, 2022 - library.seg.org
The quality factor Q is generally used to describe seismic attenuation that leads to amplitude
decay (AD) and wavelet distortion. Time-frequency transforms are commonly used to …