Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location
With high-permeability hydrocarbon reservoirs exhausting their potential, developing low-permeability reservoirs is becoming of increasing importance. In order to be produced economically, these reservoirs need to be stimulated to increase their permeability. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used...
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| author | Poliannikov, Oleg V. Malcolm, Alison E. Prange, Michael Djikpesse, Hugues |
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| description | With high-permeability hydrocarbon reservoirs exhausting their potential, developing low-permeability reservoirs is becoming of increasing importance. In order to be produced economically, these reservoirs need to be stimulated to increase their permeability. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to do this. A mixture of water, additives, and proppants is injected under high pressure into the subsurface; this fluid fractures the rock, creating additional pathways for the oil or gas. Understanding the nature of the resulting fracture system, including the geometry, size, and orientation of individual fractures, as well as the distance from one fracture to the next, is key to answering important practical questions such as: What is the affected reservoir volume? Where should we fracture next? What are the optimal locations for future production wells? |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/855912022-09-27T21:31:06Z Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location Poliannikov, Oleg V. Malcolm, Alison E. Prange, Michael Djikpesse, Hugues Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Poliannikov, Oleg V. Malcolm, Alison E. With high-permeability hydrocarbon reservoirs exhausting their potential, developing low-permeability reservoirs is becoming of increasing importance. In order to be produced economically, these reservoirs need to be stimulated to increase their permeability. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to do this. A mixture of water, additives, and proppants is injected under high pressure into the subsurface; this fluid fractures the rock, creating additional pathways for the oil or gas. Understanding the nature of the resulting fracture system, including the geometry, size, and orientation of individual fractures, as well as the distance from one fracture to the next, is key to answering important practical questions such as: What is the affected reservoir volume? Where should we fracture next? What are the optimal locations for future production wells? 2014-03-10T19:15:27Z 2014-03-10T19:15:27Z 2012-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1070-485X 1938-3789 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85591 Poliannikov, Oleg V., Alison E. Malcolm, Michael Prange, and Hugues Djikpesse. “Checking up on the Neighbors: Quantifying Uncertainty in Relative Event Location.” The Leading Edge 31, no. 12 (December 2012): 1490–1494. © 2012 by The Society of Exploration Geophysicists en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/tle31121490.1 The Leading Edge Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Society of Exploration Geophysicists Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
| spellingShingle | Poliannikov, Oleg V. Malcolm, Alison E. Prange, Michael Djikpesse, Hugues Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
| title | Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
| title_full | Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
| title_fullStr | Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
| title_full_unstemmed | Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
| title_short | Checking up on the neighbors: Quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
| title_sort | checking up on the neighbors quantifying uncertainty in relative event location |
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