Microseismic
- journal_title：The Leading Edge
- Contributor：Adam Baig ; Ted Urbancic
- Publisher：Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Date：2010-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.1190/1.3353729
- journal_abbrev：The Leading Edge
- issn：1070-485X
- volume：29
- issue：3
- firstpage：320
- section：Special section: Microseismic
摘要
Microseismic monitoring is a valuable tool in understanding the efficacy of hydraulic fracture treatments. Determination of event locations and magnitudes leads to estimations of the geometry of the fracture zone and certain dynamics of the fracturing process. With sufficient resolution, the hypocenters may even reveal failure planes or other underlying structures controlling the distribution of events and of interest to petroleum engineers to test various hypotheses on fracture growth.