News
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.
Please join us in congratulating Hanh Bui and Thomas Eyre for each being voted as one of the top 25 presentations (among 764 papers) at the 2020 SEG meeting!
NSERC announces the Microseismic Industry Consortium as the recipient of the 2020 Synergy award. This award stands as a tribute to all researchers and industry sponsors who have been involved in the Consortium.
Thanks to everyone who has worked extremely hard over the years to help us achieve this recognition!
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
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!
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:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875510020304911?via%3Dihub
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!
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
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
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/
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.
David Eaton will be giving the CSEG Distinguished Lecture tour this year (2019-2020). Here is a link to the abstract: https://cseg.ca/education/view/crustal-fluids-friction-and-faults-what-can-we-learn-from-injection-induced
The University of Alberta is conducting a public survey on the Oil and Gas Industry in Western Canada. Survey is completely anonymous and will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Please go to the website below for more information and to participate!
We are interested in your views and experiences with the oil and gas industry in western Canada! Results will be shared with industry and regulators, and may inform policy recommendations.
Questions? Contact the researchers:
jnphilli@ualberta.ca
mirko.vanderbaan@ualberta.ca
sven.anders@ualberta.ca
You may also contact the U of A Research Ethics Office at 780-492-0459.
This office is independent of the researchers.
Marco Venieri (co-supervised by Per Pedersen and David Eaton) won the 2018 Best Student Oral Presentation at the Geoconvention for his presentation entitled "Influence of sedimentary facies on geomechanical properties in the Duvernay Formation, Fox Creek area, AB, Canada?. (This is a hat-trick for Marco - the 3rd year in a row he has been recognized for Best Student paper award at the Geoconvention).
Scott McKean also won the 2018 Best Student Oral Presentation at the Geoconvention for his presentation entitled "A geomechanical comparison of the Duvernay and the Montney".
Mauricio Reyes Canales obtained SSA's Student Presentation Award for his presentation at the Seismology of the Americas held in May. His presentation title is "Monte Carlo Simulations for Analysis and Prediction of Non-Stationary Magnitude-Frequency Distributions in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis"
Listen to Mirko van der Baan talking on the SEG Podcast 'Seismic Soundoff' about the Feb 2018 special issue in The Leading Edge on 'Induced Seismicity'. Mirko van der Baan was one of the guest editors. David Eaton co-authored a paper in this special issue. See "read more" for podcast link and TLE special issue link.
Congratulations to David Eaton who co-authored a paper in Science.Schultz, Atkinson, Eaton, Gu and Kao: Hydraulic fracturing volume is associated with induced earthquake productivity in the Duvernay play, Science, 359(6373), 304-308, 2018.See "read more" for the full link to the paper.
Congratulations to Tom Eyre and Mirko van der Baan. Their paper on "The reliability of microseismic moment-tensor solutions: Surface versus borehole monitoring" is currently being highlighted as a bright spot in the Nov/Dec issue of Geophysics. See "read more" for the link to the paper.
Dr. Mirko van der Baan will be the 2017 SEG Honorary Lecturer, North America, with the presentation "How widespread is human-induced seismicity in the USA and Canada?".
For full details including abstract and schedule: http://seg.org/Education/Lectures/Honorary-Lectures/2017-HL-van-der-Baan
The paper " stick-split mechanism for anthropogenic fluid-induced tensile rock failure" authored by Mirko van der Baan, David Eaton and Giona Preisig is selected as the 2016 winner of the Dave Elliott Best Paper Award!
You will receive an email with the webinar link after registration. The webinar abstract is can be found in read more.
Dr. David Eaton will be co-editing with Per Pedersen a special section of Interpretation on "Low-permeability resource plays of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Defining the seeet spots".
The Call for papers is posted at
Dr. David Eaton has recently been invited by NSF/ICDP to lead a discussion on possible drilling sites in western Canada for induced seismicity research. This will take place at the Workshop on Scientific Exploration of Induced SeisMicity and Stress (SEISMS) (March 29-31).
See Details at
http://www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/icdp/projects/img/seisms/SEISMS_web2.pdf
Their study reveals how hydaulic fracturing induces tremors.
The 5th Annual Sponsors Meeting will take place in Calgary at Canada Olympic Park
Yoones Vaezi and Mirko van der Baan was selected as the Best Student Geophysics Poster.
Thu 30th from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.