Suggested best practice for seismic monitoring and characterization of non-conventional reservoirs

General awareness of induced seismicity and gas leakage related to energy reservoir exploitation has been on the rise for several years (McGarr, 2002; Davies et al., 2013). This includes events from short-term Huid injection for reservoir simulation (Giardini, 2009; Atkinson, 2016), Long term hydrocarbon extraction (Van Thienen-Visser and...

How earthquakes are induced

Conditions within Earth’s crust determine whether human subsurface activities lead to earthquakes.

On the Importance of Thermo-elastic Stressing in Injection-Induced Earthquakes

The sustainability of geothermal fields is based on a paradox. On one side, fractures are targeted on heat-flow improvement, and on the other side, the same fractures are avoided because of induced seismicity risk. In this context, we developed analytical approaches for estimating (1) thermo–poro-elastic stresses in a fractured geothermal system...