NG13A:
Fracking/Hydraulic Fracturing: Scaling, Applications, Processes, Models, and Natural Examples---Statistical Geodynamics II Poster


Session ID#: 9136

Session Description:
During hydraulic fracturing, a fluid is injected into rock with the goal of enhancing or generating fracture permeability.  This technique is used in oil and gas recovery, enhanced geothermal systems, CO2 sequestration, and deep injection disposal.  A similar process may be responsible for natural phenomena including magma-driven dikes, episodic tremor and slip, mud volcanoes, and jointing during oil and gas maturation. Hydraulic fracturing involves many interacting physical processes, including fluid flow, rock deformation, and an evolving fracture network of induced and reactivated fractures plus associated seismic activity.  Hydraulic fracturing is inherently an interdisciplinary area of investigation, and this session welcomes contributions from both scientific and engineering researchers investigating fluid-driven fractures through either field, theoretical, and laboratory studies which test new models behind the initiation, reactivation, and propagation of fluid-driven fractures. We also welcome presentations on the reliability of seismic inversion procedures.
Primary Convener:  Juan M Lorenzo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Conveners:  Arash Dahi Taleghani1, J. Quinn Norris2 and Mark R. Yoder2, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States(2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Chairs:  Kasey Schultz1, Juan M Lorenzo2, Mark R. Yoder1 and Christopher Cramer Barton3, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States(2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States(3)Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mark R. Yoder, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Co-Organized with:
Nonlinear Geophysics, and Near Surface Geophysics

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0935 Seismic methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
4440 Fractals and multifractals [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
7280 Volcano seismology [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Dynamics of the nonlinear viscoelastic slider-block model (74959)
Xiaoming Zhang, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada and Robert Shcherbakov, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada
The Virtual Quake Earthquake Simulator: Earthquake Probability Statistics for the El Mayor-Cucapah Region and Evidence of Predictability in Simulated Earthquake Sequences (75969)
Mark R. Yoder1, Kasey Schultz1, Eric M Heien1, John B Rundle2, Donald L Turcotte3, Jay W Parker4 and Andrea Donnellan5, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Department of Physics, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Modeling Statistical and Dynamic Features of Earthquakes (77294)
Kiyoshi Suyehiro1, Selwyn I Sacks2, Paul A. Rydelek3, Deborah E. Smith3, Tetsuo Takanami3 and Takahiro Hatano4, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Record breaking bursts in a discrete element model of compressive failure (79491)
Ferenc Kun1, Gergő Pál1, Frank Raischel1, Sabine Lennartz-Sassinek2 and Ian Graham Main3, (1)University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, (2)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Seismic Hazard Modeling Using the ETAS Framework (82112)
Gordon Ross, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Triggering proccesses in fracture and compaction experiments: On the importance of large-scale heterogeneities (84297)
Jörn Davidsen1, Grzegorz Kwiatek2, Thomas Goebel3, Sergei A Stanchits4, Georg Dresen2, Elli-Maria Charalampidou5 and Marc Rueck2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)TerraTek A Schlumberger Co., Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)Heriot–Watt University, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Quantification of the Impact of Seismic Anisotropy in Microseismic Location (69770)
Hongli Jing, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, Hua-Wei Zhou, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States and Aibing Li, University of Houston, EAS, Houston, TX, United States
Joint Use of PP and PS AVOA Data to Estimate Fluid Indicator in Vertically Fractured Medium (80193)
Bei Pan, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Institute of Geophysics & Geomatics, Wuhan, China; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Mrinal K Sen, University of Texas at Austin, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States; Univ Texas Inst Geophysics, Austin, United States and Hanming Gu, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China
A Physical Study of Converted Wave AVO in a Fractured Reservoir (72297)
Chih-Hsiung Chang1, Young-Fo Chang2, Hsiu-Chi Tsao2 and Jer-Wei Chang1, (1)National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, (2)Graduate Institute of Seismology National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Characteristic ruptures of micro-seismic hydraulic fractures (82125)
Gisela Fernandes Viegas1, Lindsay Smith-Boughner2, Ted Urbancic2 and Adam M Baig2, (1)ESG Solutions, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)Engineering Seismology Group Canada Inc, Kingston, ON, Canada
Correlation of Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity with Operation Parameters of Shale Gas Extraction: Two Case Studies in Western Canada (68829)
Amir Mansour Farahbod, Geological Survey of Canada Sidney, Sidney, BC, Canada, Honn Kao, Geological Survey Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, John F Cassidy, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, David B Snyder, Geological Survey Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Scott Cairns, Northwest Territories Geological Survey, Yellowknife, NT, Canada and Dan Walker, British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission, Victoria, BC, Canada
Veins in Paleo-reservoir as a Natural Indication of Coupled Changes in Pore Pressure and Stress, Salt Wash Graben of SE Utah, USA (76993)
Sehyeon Gwon1, Paul Edwards2 and Young-Seog Kim1, (1)Pukyong National University, Earth & Environmental Science, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
Electrical and Magnetic Imaging of Proppants in Shallow Hydraulic Fractures  (82859)
Jessica Leeann Story Denison, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Larry C Murdoch, Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, Douglas J LaBrecque, Multi-Phase Technologies, LLC, Sparks, NV, United States and William Slack, FRx Inc., Cincinnati, OH, United States
Laboratory Scale Hydraulic Fracture and Proppant Injection (62526)
Mathew D Ingraham1, Rekha R Rao2, Daniel Bolintineanu2, Jeremy B Lechman2, Stephen J Bauer2 and Enrico Quintana2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Research on crack propagation induced by hydraulic fracturing with low permeability rocks in different buried depths (85541)
Jialiang Chen1, Yang Ju1, Yongming Yang1 and Yingchun Guo2, (1)China University of Mining Technology, Beijing, China, (2)partner, Shandong, China
XFEM-Based CZM for the Simulation of 3D Multiple-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing in Quasi-brittle Shale Formations (82064)
Mahdi Haddad, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States and Kamy Sepehrnoori, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Percolation Theory and Modern Hydraulic Fracturing (64678)
J. Quinn Norris, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Donald L Turcotte, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Physics, Davis, CA, United States
Numerical Modeling of Fracture Propagation in Naturally Fractured Formations (82239)
Weiwei Wang1, Masa Prodanovic1, Jon E Olson2 and Richard Schultz1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ Texas, Austin, TX, United States

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