About the Microseismic Industry Consortium
Founded in January 2010 the Microseismic Industry Consortium is a novel, applied-research geophysical initiative dedicated to the advancement of research, education and technological innovations in microseismic methods and their practical applications for resource development. Working with industry partners and government agencies, the Consortium is a team of faculty, students and researchers hosted by the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. Taking advantage of multidisciplinary links to researchers at both universities, the Microseismic Industry Consortium benefits from access to specialists in a variety of related disciplines. Our research vision encompasses data acquisition, processing and interpretation within a multidisciplinary research environment. As the project evolves, specific research goals and objectives have been developed in close consultation with industry sponsors. Key aspects of our research vision include the following:
- Creating improved algorithms for data processing.
- Developing case histories using existing and newly acquired microseismic data.
- Improving geomechanical characterization of fracture processes.
- Simulating fracture processes by numerical methods.
- Understanding the stress field and how it evolves.
- Investigating temporal changes in reservoir conditions, including seismic anisotropy.
- Induced seismicity.
News and Information
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01997-7We are pleased to announce that we have an article in Nature, News and Views section. It is entitled:
A model of seismicity at a tectonically active oil field, by Mirko van der Baan.
The article is an analysis of novel work by Hager et al., also published in Nature, of the Val d’Agri oil field in Italy, that provides insight into how processes associated with wastewater disposal trigger earthquakes — and how such effects can be reduced to maintain the economic viability of mature oil fields.
We are pleased to announce a newly released Geoscience BC report from the project Understanding and Mitigating Induced Seismicity Risk in the Kiskatinaw Area, BC.
Please find the news release on the GBC website: http://www.geosciencebc.com/geoscience-bc-energy-r...
Please join us in congratulating Hanh Bui on being selected to receive the award for Best Student Paper Presented at the 2020 SEG Annual Meeting for her paper Event detection using a fast matched filter algorithm — An efficient way to deal with big microseismic data sets.
A recent publication in the AAPG May Bulletin, by Marco Venieri, Per Pedersen and David Eaton, is available online at https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aapgbull/article-abstract/105/5/865/596086/Predicting-unconventional-reservoir-potential-from?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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.