Identification of underground formation lithology from well-log data is an important task in
petroleum exploration and engineering. Due to the cost or imprecision of some methods …

Fracture networks are omnipresent in unconventional energy reservoirs. The inversion of
fractures is of vital importance to oil and gas exploration and production. Most of the existing …

Evaluation of hydraulic fractures has been under intensive study since the last decade.
Among published works, only a few have included casing effects. This paper focuses on the …

To facilitate the detection of hydraulic fractures by electromagnetic survey, a discontinuous
Galerkin frequency-domain (DGFD) method is introduced in this paper to efficiently model …

Electrically conductive fluid injected during the operation of hydraulic fracturing can be
mapped by anomalous electromagnetic (EM) fields under the excitation of controlled EM …

Hydraulic fracturing is an essential way to improve the production of unconventional shale
oil and gas. It is important to characterize the produced fractures using either acoustic or …

In recent years, data mining technology has been widely used in different fields. For
petroleum industry, the application of data mining method not only can analyze the data …

This communication studies 3-D electromagnetic (EM) scattering and inverse scattering of
arbitrary anisotropic dielectric objects embedded in multilayered media. Different from …

In this paper, the sensitivity and detectability of an electromagnetic induction tool for
hydraulic fracture detection are analyzed by calculating the electromagnetic response from …

The thin dielectric sheet-based surface integral equation (SIE) method is introduced to the
accurate simulation of fracture scattering, which is an important and challenging topic in …