H51M:
Subsurface Control of Fractures and Flow for Responsible Energy Production and Storage Posters


Session ID#: 8831

Session Description:
Adaptive control of subsurface fractures and flow is a grand scientific challenge that has the potential to transform subsurface energy strategies and is critical for the safe production of unconventional hydrocarbons, enhanced geothermal energy, carbon sequestration and disposal of wastes. To transform the utilization of the subsurface for energy purposes, the U.S. Department of Energy  has advanced an initiative called SubTER (subsurface technology and engineering research development and demonstration) focused on the fracture and flow control grand challenge. We solicit contributions on several topics relative to this challenge, including enhanced wellbore integrity; measuring and manipulating subsurface stress and induced seismicity; fracture and permeability manipulation approaches;  new subsurface signals and monitoring strategies; development and use of energy field observatories and ‘fit for purpose’ simulation capabilities.

Primary Convener:  Thomas M Daley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Doug Blankenship, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  Thomas M Daley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Thomas M Daley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, Seismology, Tectonophysics, and Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology

Cross-Listed:
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

1034 Hydrothermal systems [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The DOE Subsurface (SubTER) Initiative: Revolutionizing Responsible use of the Subsurface for Energy Production and Storage (63822)
Susan S. Hubbard1, Marianne C Walck2, Doug Blankenship2, Alain Bonneville3, Grant S Bromhal4, Thomas M Daley5, Rajesh Pawar6, Yarom Polsky7, Earl Mattson8, Robert J Mellors9 and SubTER team, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (8)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (9)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Seismic Imaging of Open Subsurface Fractures (66554)
Stephen C Myers, Arben Pitarka, Eric Matzel and Ana C Aguiar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Estimation of the in-situ stress fields from P-wave seismic data- a real data example (68589)
Ana Monica Garcia-Ceballos1, Subhashis Mallick2 and Hema Sandeep Sharma1, (1)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
The State of Stress Beyond the Borehole (69553)
David D Coblentz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Paul A Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Andrew A Delorey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Robert A Guyer, University of Nevada Reno, Physics Department, Reno, NV, United States
Virtual Seismometers for Induced Seismicity Monitoring (70716)
Christina Morency and Eric Matzel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Relocation of Groningen seismicity using refracted waves (72550)
Jeannot Trampert1, Elmer Ruigrok1, Hanneke Paulssen2 and Bernard Dost3, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
Cryogenic Fracturing: Laboratory Visualization Experiments and Numerical Simulations Using Peridynamics (74183)
John Kearney Edmiston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Robert Martin-Short, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Iron Release and Precipitation in Fracture Fluid-Shale Fracturing Systems (74741)
Adam D Jew1, Claresta M Joe-Wong2, Anna L Harrison2, Dana Thomas3, Megan Kathleen Dustin4, Gordon E Brown5, Katharine Maher2 and John Bargar6, (1)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States
 PERMEABILITY CHANGES ON WELLBORE CEMENT FRACTURES MODIFIED BY GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOMECHANICAL PROCESSES (80595)
Wooyong Um, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Kenton Alan Rod, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Low-frequency shear measurements on fractured samples to determine detectability of fractures at various stress conditions (81820)
Seth Saltiel1, Brian P Bonner1, Jonathan Blair Ajo-Franklin1 and Paul A Selvadurai2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Minimizing the Fluid Used to Induce Fracturing (81844)
Edward J. Boyle, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States
Imaging Fracture Networks Using Angled Crosshole Seismic Logging and Change Detection Techniques (86579)
Hunter Anne Knox1, Mark C Grubelich2, Leiph A Preston2, James M Knox2 and Dennis K King2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

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