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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2015.18.2.064

Locating Microseismic Events using a Single Vertical Well Data  

Kim, Dowan (Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Kim, Myungsun (Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Byun, Joongmoo (Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Seol, Soon Jee (Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.18, no.2, 2015 , pp. 64-73 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, hydraulic fracturing is used in various fields and microseismic monitoring is one of the best methods for judging where hydraulic fractures exist and how they are developing. When locating microseismic events using single vertical well data, distances from the vertical array and depths from the surface are generally decided using time differences between compressional (P) wave and shear (S) wave arrivals and azimuths are calculated using P wave hodogram analysis. However, in field data, it is sometimes hard to acquire P wave data which has smaller amplitude than S wave because microseismic data often have very low signal to noise (S/N) ratio. To overcome this problem, in this study, we developed a grid search algorithm which can find event location using all combinations of arrival times recorded at receivers. In addition, we introduced and analyzed the method which calculates azimuths using S wave. The tests of synthetic data show the inversion method using all combinations of arrival times and receivers can locate events without considering the origin time even using only single phase. In addition, the method can locate events with higher accuracy and has lower sensitivity on first arrival picking errors than conventional method. The method which calculates azimuths using S wave can provide reliable results when the dip between event and receiver is relatively small. However, this method shows the limitation when dip is greater than about $20^{\circ}$ in our model test.
Keywords
Hydraulic fracturing; Microseismic monitoring; Event location; Single vertical well; Azimuth;
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