Determining the Microseismic Event Source Parameters from the Surface Seismic Array Data with Strong Correlated Noise and Complex Focal Mechanisms of the Source

作者：Kushnir A F^*; Varypaev A V; Rozhkov M V; Epiphansky A G; Dricker I

来源：Izvestiya-Physics of the Solid Earth, 2014, 50(3): 334-354.

DOI：10.1134/S1069351314030033

The world experience shows that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is an efficient tool for increasing oil and gas production of low-permeable reservoirs in hydrocarbon fields. The fracking-induced fractures in the rock, which are hydrodynamically connected with the wells, significantly enhance the volumes of extracted hydrocarbons. Controlling the processes of fracture formation and propagation is a vital question in the oil and gas reservoir management. A key means to implement this control is provided by microseismic monitoring of fracking, which makes it possible to promptly reconstruct the geometry of the fractures from the data on seismic waves from the microearthquakes induced by the formation and propagation of fractures.

• 出版日期2014-5