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W-5: Monitoring with Microseismic: Does it Work?
Thursday, 26 September 1:30 - 5:00 pm
Organizers: Jing Du and Henri Houllevigue E-mail Contact: henri.houllevigue@total.com Through the support of the SEG Research Committee
The production of shale gas/oil from unconventional reservoirs in North America has dramatically increased in the past decade. The multi-stage hydraulic fracturing and long horizontal wells completions are the two key technologies which contribute to the successful development of the unconventional shale gas/oil reservoirs. With the increased development of these unconventional plays, the practice of monitoring hydraulic fractures and reservoir depletion using microseismicity has expanded. This workshop focuses on the values we gain from the microseismic monitoring (well completion, fracturing effectiveness and containment, reservoir depletion surveillance etc.) as well as the important points to move from "Dots in a Box" to complete interpretations of induced fracture systems—including a full understanding of the reliability of these interpretations.
Schedule
1:30 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction Jing DU and Henri Houllevigue
1:35 p.m.
Evaluating Completion and Fracturing Effectiveness with Microseismic Mapping Norm Warpinski (Pinnacle/Halliburton)
1:55 p.m.
Microseismicity Location with Joint Anisotropic Tomography: Methodology and Application to a Middle Bakken Unconventional Reservoir Junlun Li (MIT)
2:15 p.m.
Mapping Fractures by Imaging Passive Seismic Emissions for Ambient Listening Before Drilling and for Frac Monitoring Charles Sicking (Global)
2:35 p.m.
Managing Microseismic Data for Fracture Matching using Natural Adaptive Algorithms, Avi Lin and Jianfu Ma (Halliburton)
2:55 p.m.
Break
3:20 p.m.
A new surveillance method for delineation of depletion using microseismic, and its application to development of unconventional reservoirs Ted Dohmen (Hess)
3:40 p.m.
Establishing Value from Microseismic Hydraulic Fracture Imaging Shawn Maxwell (Schlumberger)
