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Monitoring Seismic Attenuation Changes Using a 4D Relative Spectrum Method in Athabsca Heavy Oil Reservoir, Canada
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2012)
Heating heavy oil reservoirs is a common method for reducing the high viscosity of heavy oil and thus increasing the recovery factor. Monitoring these changes in the reservoir is essential for delineating the heated region ...
Target-oriented Time-lapse Waveform Inversion using Virtual Survey
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2012)
Time-lapse seismic data are widely used for monitoring time-variant subsurface changes. Conventional analysis provides qualitative information by comparing results from consecutive surveys, whereas waveform inversion can ...
A unified framework for relative source localization using correlograms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2012)
We study the problem of determining an unknown event location relative to previously located events using a single monitoring array in a monitoring well. We show that using the available information about the previously ...
Converted Phase Elastic Migration Velocity Analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
Multi-component elastic seismic data collected at large offsets have the potential to be used in seismic imaging and velocity analysis. In this study, we present an approach for converted-phase elastic-transmission migration ...
Seismic imaging of hydraullically-stimulated fractures: A numerical study of the effect of the source mechanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2012)
We present a numerical study of seismic imaging of hydraulically stimulated fractures using a single source from an adjacent fracturing-process. The source is either a point force generated from the perforation of the ...
Data-Driven Estimation of the Sensitivity of Target-Oriented Time-Lapse Seismic Imaging to Source Geometry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2012)
The goal of time-lapse imaging is to identify and characterize regions in which the
earth's material properties have changed between surveys. This requires an effective deployment of sources and receivers to monitor the ...
Comparison of microearthquake locations using seismic interferometry principles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2012)
Mapping, localization, and general characterization of problems in reservoir fracture systems is one of the most important in oil, gas, and geothermal energy production. One way to study and monitor these fracture systems ...
Using SVD for improved interferometric Green's function retrieval
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
Seismic interferometry (SI) is a technique used to estimate the Green’s function (GF) between two receiver locations, as if there were a source at one of the receiver locations. However, in many applications, the requirements ...
Analysis of location uncertainty for a microearthquake cluster: A case study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
In many reservoirs, an increase in permeability and conductivity is achieved by hydraulic fracturing/stimulations which open cracks and fractures that then act as pathways for fluids to navigate in the subsurface. Mapping, ...
Joint microseismic event location with uncertain velocity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory, 2013)
We study the problem of the joint location of seismic events using an array of receivers. We show that locating multiple seismic events simultaneously is advantageous compared to the more traditional approaches of locating ...