Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of calibrating fracture geometry to microseismic events
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Application No.: US14896685Application Date: 2014-07-02
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Publication No.: US10352145B2Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: Shawn Maxwell , Xiaowei Weng , Olga Kresse , Craig Cipolla , Mark Mack , James T. Rutledge , William Underhill , Utpal Ganguly
- Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Agent Michael L. Flynn; Rachel E. Greene; Robin Nava
- International Application: PCT/US2014/045182 WO 20140702
- International Announcement: WO2015/003028 WO 20150108
- Main IPC: E21B43/267
- IPC: E21B43/267

Abstract:
A method of performing a fracture operation is provided at a wellsite. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a complex fracture network therein. The complex fracture network includes natural fractures, and the wellsite stimulated by injection of an injection fluid with proppant into the complex fracture network. The method involves generating wellsite data comprising measurements of microseismic events of the subterranean formation, modeling a hydraulic fracture network and a discrete fracture network of the complex fracture network based on the wellsite data, and performing a seismic moment operation. The method involves determining an actual seismic moment density based on the wellsite data and a predicted seismic moment density based on shear and tensile components of the simulated hydraulic fracture network, and calibrating the discrete fracture network based on a comparison of the predicted moment density and the actual moment density.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160108705A1 METHOD OF CALIBRATING FRACTURE GEOMETRY TO MICROSEISMIC EVENTS Public/Granted day:2016-04-21
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