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Dave Eaton’s inaugural presentation for his CSEG Distinguished Lecture tour which will be held on Thursday, September 12, 3:30pm – 4:40pm at the Earth Sciences building (ES162), University of Calgary. (Detail see https://science.ucalgary.ca/events#!view/day/date/20190912).

The presentation is titled ‘‘Crustal Fluids, Friction and Faults: What can we learn from injection-induced earthquakes?”. It will include recent research that has been part of the Microseismic Industry Consortium over the years.

UCalgary led a project funded by Geoscience BC: Understanding and Mitigating Induced Seismicity Risk in the Kiskatinaw Area, BC has new induced seismicity monitoring data available through IRIS.

More information is available through the Geoscience BC News Release, June 17, 2020:  http://www.geosciencebc.com/new-seismic-data-now-available-for-northeast-bcs-kiskatinaw-area/

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will continue its tradition of holding an annual research workshop, on Thursday, August 13^th, 2020, to enable a detailed discussion of a topic of current interest to companies. This year’s research workshop will use an online format and will focus on observations of casing deformation, along with geomechanical modeling to understand causes and mitigation.

Dr. Eaton receives 2020 Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Award. This prestigious recognition is a competitive award, and it is awarded to a scientist who has made outstanding, career-long contributions to the geophysical sciences in Canada.

More information available through UCalgary News Release, May 25, 2020: https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-geophysicist-wins-prestigious-canadian-geophysical-union-medal

Two papers published in the top journals with contributions from MIC members:

1. Nature Reviews of Earth and Environment: Atkinson, G.M., Eaton, D.W. & Igonin, N. Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2020).  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0049-7

2. Reviews of Geophysics: Schultz, R., Skoumal, R.J., Brudzinski, M.R., Eaton, D.W., Baptie, B. & Ellsworth, W., Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity (2020).  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000695

Please join us at the GeoConvention for our MIC-related research presentations from today through Wednesday, Sept 21-23, 2020.

We have 13 presentations in total. Some are overlapping, but will be available on demand for a couple of days after the conference. Our first talk is today at 1:50pm. Hope to see you there!

We are pleased to announce that our integrated paper on “Determining elastic properties of organic-rich shales from core, wireline logs and 3-D seismic: A comparative study from the Duvernay play, Alberta, Canada” has just been published with 50 days free access at the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. Please access via the link here:

Please join us at the SEG20 for our MIC-related research presentations from October 12-16, 2020.

We have 5 presentations and 1 post-convention workshop. Our first presentation is Monday, October 12 at 1:50pm.

Please note the times are Central Time. Hope to see you there!

Please join us at the upcoming webinar hosted by the Bureau of Economic Geology at University of Texas, Austin for Dr. David Eaton’s presentation entitled: 

Seismicity Induced by the Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources

October 23, 2020
9am Central Time

Join Zoom Meeting
https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96260640858
Meeting ID: 962 6064 0858

As part of MIC’s ongoing research program, the University of Calgary partnered with sponsors ARC Resources and OptaSense, and wireline and conveyance service providers ESG Solutions and Altus Intervention, to acquire a wireline (dip-in) distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) monitoring dataset in northeastern BC in January 2021. The dataset was acquired to monitor a multi-well completion program in the Montney play to support research on low-frequency interwellbore strain, development of a comprehensive workflow for DAS microseismic processing and evaluating the effectiveness of dip-in DAS observations compared with permanent fibres. Real-time monitoring showed clear frac hits for 54 stages, at offset distances of more than 300m. The results of this experiment support the effectiveness of dip-in DAS acquisition and represents an exceptional example of academic-industry research synergy. Initial results from processing and interpretation of this dataset will be presented to MIC sponsors at the 2021 Annual Sponsors Meeting.