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2 MIC Researchers named to Top 25 Best Presentations for SEG20

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!

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New publication investigates compositional and geomechanical properties of the Duvernay shale play

A forthcoming publication in the AAPG Bulletin, by Marco Venieri, Per Pedersen and David Eaton, is available online at http://archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/aop/2020-11-05/aapgbltn19042aop.html.
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MIC receives the 2020 NSERC Synergy Award!

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!

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WEBINAR: Bureau of Economic Geology at University of Texas, Austin - October 23, 2020

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

 

 

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Six MIC Presentations for SEG20

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!

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JNGSE Duvernay paper preprint available online

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


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Thirteen MIC Presentations for GeoConvention 2020

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!

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Members of MIC have contributed as co-authors to recent publications on induced seismicity published in top international journals

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

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Dr. Eaton receives 2020 Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Award

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

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MIC Summer Research Workshop: Casing Deformation

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will continue its tradition of holding an annual research workshop, on Thursday, August 13th, 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.
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New induced seismicity data to be released from a project funded by Geoscience BC

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/

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First talk of David Eaton CSEG Distinguished Lecture Tour

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.

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David Eaton taking CSEG Distinguished Lecture tour (2019-2020)

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

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2019 CSEG Best Student Oral Presentation Award to Jordan Phillips

Jordan Phillips won the 2019 Best Student Oral Presentation at the Geoconvention for her presentation entitled "Understanding Public Risk Perception in the Oil and Gas Industry" by Jordan Phillips, Mirko van der Baan, Sven Anders and Scott McKean
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2019 CSEG Geoconvention

Microseismic Industry Consortium will attend the 2019 CSEG Geoconvention. See details for talk/poster schedules.
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Participants needed: Oil and Gas Survey

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.

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2018 CSEG Best Student Oral Presentation Awards to Marco Venieri and Scott McKean

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".

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SSA's Student Presentation Award to Mauricio Reyes Canales

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"

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2018 CSEG Geoconvention

Microseismic Industry Consortium will attend the 2018 CSEG Geoconvention. See details for talk/poster schedules.
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Mirko van der Baan talking on the SEG Podcast 'Seismic Soundoff'

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.
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David Eaton co-authered a paper in Science

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.
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Bright spot paper of Geophysics by Tom Eyre and Mirko van der Baan

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.
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Dr. David Eaton will give a webinar on October 17

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.
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Best Paper in Geophysics 2016 - Honorable Mention

Congratulations to Megan Zecevic for Best Paper in Geophysics 2016 - Honorable Mention
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2017 SEG Honorary Lecturer - Dr. Mirko van der Baan

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

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May 3
2016 Winner of the Dave Elliott Best Paper Award

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!

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April 13
Penn State Extension Shale Webinar - Hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity

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.

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David Eation will be co-editing a special section of Interpretation

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

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David Eaton lead a discussion on possible drilling sites in western Canada for induced seismicity research

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

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Jan. 12 and Jan. 31, 2017
Invited luncheon presentations at the Calgary Petroleum Club by David Eaton

David Eaton is going to give two presentations at the Calgary Petroleum Club in January 2017.
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Science paper by Xuewei Bao and David Eaton

Their study reveals how hydaulic fracturing induces tremors.

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Nov 29-30
Microseismic Industrial Consortium: Annual Meeting

The 7th microseismic industrial consortium annual sponsor meeting will take place in the Canada Olympic Park, Calgary.
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Prof. David Eaton visited IMGW Geophysics

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).
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March 7-9, 2016
Congratulations to Colin Brisco for 'Best Student Poster Presentation: Honourable Mention' at the 2016 Geoconvention.

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.
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April 20-22, 2016
Microseismic Industry Consortium research on display at the SSA

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.
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7 - 11 March, 2016
CSEG Geoconvention Optimizing Reseources

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will participate in the GeoConvention 2016 Optimizing Resources conference, hosted in Calgary, Alberta.
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February 11 +12, 2016
Microseismic Industry Consortium Annual Sponsors Meeting

The 6th microseismic industrial consortium annual sponsor meeting will take place in the Canada Olympic Park Winsport.
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November 19, 2015
CSUR Induced Seismicity Workshop

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.
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October 19 - 22, 2015
SEG Annual Meeting

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will participate in the 2015 SEG conference, hosted in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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October 6, 2015
Technical Meeting: Traffic Light Protocol for Induced Seismicity

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.
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September 10, 2015
Public Lecture and Panel Discussion: Fracking and Earthquakes

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?
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May 4
AGU/CGU/GAC/MAC Joint Assembly (Montreal)

Plenary Lecture (Monday May 4) 
 
David Eaton: Hydraulic Fracturing and Induced Seismicity
 
Poster (Induced Seismicity Processes)
 
Sattari and Eaton: 3D Finite Element Modeling of Slip on a Well-Oriented, Critically Stressed Fault due to Pore Pressure Increase 
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May 8
CESG workshop

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will hold a workshop in the GeoConvention 2015 Focus conference, hosted in Calgary, Alberta.
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May 4-6
CSEG GeoConvention

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will participate in the GeoConvention 2015 Focus conference, hosted in Calgary, Alberta.
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February 25, 2015
Dr. van der Baan to present in MicroSeismic User Group (MUG)

Next MUG is scheduled for Feb 25th (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.
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February 26 + 27, 2015
Microseismic Industry Consortium Annual Sponsors Meeting

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

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January 26, 2015
Dr Eaton to give CSEG Technical Luncheon presentation

Dr. Eaton to give the following presentation as part of the CSEG's technical luncheon:
2b or not 2B?  Interpreting magnitude distributions from Microseismic catalogs.
Further details can be found on CSEG website
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December 15 – 19, 2014
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting several papers during AGU conference.
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September 10, 2014
GeoConvention Best Geophysics Poster from UA

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.
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October 30, 2014
Postconvention workshop in SEG conference

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.
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October 26-31, 2014
SEG Conference - Denver

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting several papers during SEG conference.
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October 19 - 22, 2014
DFNE conference, Vancouver, British Columbia

Microseismic expression of natural fracture activation in a tight sand reservoir will be presented by Dr. David Eaton
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September 15 - 18, 2014
2014 Joint SEG / SPE / ARMA Workshop on Injection Induced Seismicity – Banff, Alberta

Microseismic Industry Consortium presentation details to be confirmed by SEG.  Details to follow.
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September 2 - 6, 2014
Microseismic Industry Consortium Short Course – Calgary, Alberta

Geophysical Principles of Microseismic Methods
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August 25 - 27, 2014
URTeC, Denver, Colorado Convention Center

Microseismic Industry Consortium to give talk on passive seismic monitoring and integrated geomechanical analysis
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June 16 – 19, 2014
EAGE – Amsterdam

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will be presenting 2 oral presentations and 3 posters at this year's EAGE conference in Amsterdam
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May 13, 2014
GeoConvention: FOCUS – Microseismic Industry Consortium Meet & Greet

Join us for a drink and hors d'oevres and meet with students and project personnel at The University of Alberta Calgary Centre – 
120, 333 – 5 Ave SW, from 4:30PM onwards
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May 12 – 16, 2014
CSEG Geoconvention FOCUS

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