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Passive Seismic Monitoring: Listening for the Snap, Crackle, Pop
Marcia CouëslanSchlumberger Carbon Services
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Outline
• What is microseismic activity?• Where else is it used?• What causes microseismic activity & what does it
tell us?•Hardware Options •Potential Workflow• Integration with geomechanical modelling• Feasibility Studies• Conclusions
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Noise
Duration
P to S delay
What Is Microseismic Activity?
• Microseismic monitoring is based on global seismology- P- and S-wave arrivals are used to locate an event in x, y, z space
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What Is Microseismic Activity?
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4Ritcher Magnitude
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Freq
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g 10)
EarthquakesMicro-earthquakes
Felt by Humans
Detected by Surface Sensors
Detected by Downhole Sensors
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Where Else Is It Used?
• Mining Industry• Geothermal Industry• Underground waste
disposal- Could be fluids or
cuttings• Geotechnical projects
- Slope stability, dams, tunnel stability
• Hydrofracture monitoring Courtesy of Natural Resources Canada
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Mining
• Monitor 4D stress release
• Caving• Underground gas
emissions• Rock burst prediction• Slope stability
Courtesy of ISS International
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What Causes Microseismic Activity?
• Associated with brittle deformation
• Caused by stress changes related to production or injection
• Events may occur on failure surfaces such as faults and fractures
• May be related to stress transfer to the surrounding rock bodies
Confining stress
Shear stress
Pore Pressure
Injection scenario
Slip & generation of microseismic event
Change in Pressure
Barrier
Stress concentration on barrier
Barrier
Slip & generation of microseismic event
Pressure Changes
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Duration
Potential Reservoir Information
• Fault plane solutions• Fracture orientation
Ampl
itude
S-timing Distance to Location
SourceParams A
mp
Freq
Shear wave splittingReservoir Properties
P-timing
orPolarity
Hodograms: Direction & Location• Event location• Orientation of failure
surface• Mode of failure• Shear wave source
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What Can We Monitor With It?
• Cap rock integrity• Fault/ fracture re-activation or
propagation• Can reveal fractures and
compartments on a sub-seismic scale• Fault transmissibility• May image the pressure fronts
associated with fluid movement• Monitor deformations that may result
in well integrity problems
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What Can We Monitor With It?
Injector
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Hardware Options
• Seismometers at the surface • Geophones in monitor wells: temporary to permanent
CementedPS3 Semi-permanent
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Potential Workflow
Begin Initial Site Characterization& Data Acquisition
Build Initial Geomechanical Model
Conduct MicroseismicFeasibility Study
Design Geophone ArrayFor Passive & ActiveSeismic Monitoring
Install Geophone Array & Obtain Baseline Noise Profile
Begin CO2 Injection
Analyze Microseismic Data
Update Geomechanical Model &Microseismic Modelling
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Integration With Geomechanics
Geomechanical modelling can:• Predict stress changes with time• Estimate future fault activity• Risk analysis for wellbore stability
Microseismic data can:• Verify & update geomechanical
models• Map how stress tensors change
with time• Indicate fault re-activation or
generation
Vertical displacement
Moment magnitude
(Visage)
(Visage)
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Initial State
N
Initial Stress Orientation
From Visage
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Initial StateFinal State
N
Change in Stress Orientation
From Visage
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Feasibility Studies
• Geomechanical model• Requires velocity model, well
trajectory, operational info, etc• Modelling can determine
- Potential size of events detected with distance
- Uncertainty in positioning
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Conclusions
• Microseismic monitoring is an established technology in a number of other industries
• Microseismic installations can effectively be deployed to monitor a range of activity at CO2 storage sites
- Cap rock integrity- Illumination of sub-seismic features- Re-activation or propagation of faults/fractures
• Microseismic monitoring should be used in conjunction with geomechanical modelling
• Feasibility studies should be completed to ensure that the microseismic monitoring system meets objectives
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Acknowledgements
• Rob Jones and Stephen Wilson, Schlumberger• Mike Kendall, University of Bristol• Thomas Bérard, Schlumberger Carbon Services• Robert Newman & Nick Koutsabeloulis, SLB
Geomechanics Centre of Excellence (formerly VIPS)
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Find a couple of geophones
Connect ‘em up
Chuck ‘em in a well
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SOUNDS
STRAIGHTFORWARD
LET ‘S DO IT
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