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ASC at SPE ATCE 2009

56ASC presented a technical paper at this year's SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) between 4-7 October 2009.

The paper, entitled "Application of Relative Location Techniques to Induced Microseismicity from Hydraulic Fracturing", was presented at the afternoon session on Tuesday 6 October. The paper presents an approach to enhance the resolution of imaging of fractured networks induced by hydrofracture treatments using the location of recorded microseismic activity. The approach is based on the use of relative location methods that reduce the location volume to a small region around the seismic source, overcoming uncertainties in the determination of the velocity model for the whole reservoir volume. The method takes a step-wise approach to propagate the increased resolution in seismic location achieved by relative location methods to the complete set of events. This method allows a significantly higher number of events to be located as only one phase (P or S wave) need be identified, assuming the events are in the vicinity of a master event with high quality arrivals.

Full abstract and information on the technical programme are available at SPE's website .

You can also meet us to discuss our products and services at Itasca's booth (booth # 829) in the exhibitor's area.

For more information on SPE's ATCE 2009 click here (external link).

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