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Microseismic Industry Consortium will attend the 2019 CSEG Geoconvention. See details for talk/poster schedules.

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!

tinyurl.com/oilandgassurvey

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"

Microseismic Industry Consortium will attend the 2018 CSEG Geoconvention. See details for talk/poster schedules.

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. David Eaton will be giving a webinar on October 17 for the Denver Microseismic Study Group, titled" What Controls the Magnitude of Injection-induced Earthquakes?" Details in Read More.

Congratulations to Megan Zecevic for Best Paper in Geophysics 2016 - Honorable Mention

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!

David Eaton will give a webinar presentation with Penn State University on hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity on April 13. To register for the webinar, please go to 

http://extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/natural-gas/events/hydraulic-fracturing-and-induced-seismicity 

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

http://library.seg.org/page/low-permeability-resource-plays

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 7th microseismic industrial consortium annual sponsor meeting will take place in the Canada Olympic Park, Calgary.

The IMGW Geophysics group has had the pleasure to host Prof. David W. Eaton on the 14th of June 2016. Prof. Eaton works at the department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary (AB, Canada) and he is founder and director together with Prof. Mirko Van der Baan (University of Alberta) of the Microseismic Industry Consortium (MIC, www.microseismic-research.ca).

Brisco C. and Van der Baan M. A review of seismic velocity response to variations in pore pressure, pore-saturating fluid and confining stress. 2016 GeoConvention, Calgary.

MIC research was prominently showcased from April 20-22 at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA), attended by 650 seismologists from around the world.

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will participate in the GeoConvention 2016 Optimizing Resources conference, hosted in Calgary, Alberta.

The 6th microseismic industrial consortium annual sponsor meeting will take place in the Canada Olympic Park Winsport.

Both David Eaton and Mirko van der Baan are invited panelists for this one-day workshop on Induced Seismicity hosted in Calgary by the CSUR.

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will participate in the 2015 SEG conference, hosted in New Orleans, Louisiana.

David Eaton is part of the organizing committee for this one-day workshop hosted by the Office of the Vice-President (Research) of the Univ of Calgary. Mirko van der Baan is an invited panelist.

Mirko van der Baan is one of the panelists invited to participate in a public forum organized by the Institute of Geophysical Research at the U of Alberta on the topic of Fracking and Earthquakes - a cause for concern?

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will hold a workshop in the GeoConvention 2015 Focus conference, hosted in Calgary, Alberta.

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will participate in the GeoConvention 2015 Focus conference, hosted in Calgary, Alberta.

Next MUG is scheduled for Feb 25^th (12 noon at CGG Auditorium). Speaker will be Mirko van de Baan. Geomechanical modeling of induced microseismicity. To view the abstract and register go to CSEG website.

The 5th Annual Sponsors Meeting will take place in Calgary at Canada Olympic Park

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting several papers during AGU conference.

Poster Presentation “Interferometric assessment of clamping quality of borehole geophones” by
Yoones Vaezi and Mirko van der Baan was selected as the Best Student Geophysics Poster.

Mirko van der Baan, Sergey Fomel and Jean-Baptiste Tary will organize postconvention workshop W-9‹Latest Developments in Time-Frequency Analysis
Thu 30th from 1:30 p.m. to­ 5:00 p.m.

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting several papers during SEG conference.

Microseismic expression of natural fracture activation in a tight sand reservoir will be presented by Dr. David Eaton

Microseismic Industry Consortium presentation details to be confirmed by SEG.  Details to follow.

Geophysical Principles of Microseismic Methods

Microseismic Industry Consortium to give talk on passive seismic monitoring and integrated geomechanical analysis

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting 2 oral presentations and 3 posters at this year's EAGE conference in Amsterdam

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting 12 oral talks and 6 posters at this year's GeoConvention 2014: FOCUS.