GP51B:
Electromagnetic Imaging of Natural and Engineered Fracture Systems Posters

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Session ID#: 12751

Session Description:
Control and monitoring of fracture systems is a challenging engineering problem in energy resource production which impacts both the efficient development of the energy resource and the effects of such development on the surrounding geosystem. Through the use of electrically enhanced contrast agents such as fluids, proppants, or tracers, there has been a renewed interest in the application of electrical and electromagnetic methods to minimize well-known ambiguities associated with traditional microseismic monitoring of hydrofracture operations. In this session we invite contributions describing advances in electrical and electromagnetic field data acquisition, analysis, numerical modeling, inversion and assimilation related to fracture characterization in natural and engineered systems.
Primary Convener:  Chester J Weiss, Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics Department, Albuquerque, United States
Convener:  David L Alumbaugh, NEOS GeoSolutions Inc., Newport Beach, CA, United States
Chairs:  Chester J Weiss, Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics Department, Albuquerque, United States and David L Alumbaugh, NEOS GeoSolutions Inc., Newport Beach, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Chester J Weiss, Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics Department, Albuquerque, United States
Co-Organized with:
Near Surface Geophysics, and Near Surface Geophysics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

0599 General or miscellaneous [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
0699 General or miscellaneous [ELECTROMAGNETICS]
0999 General or miscellaneous [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
8010 Fractures and faults [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Controlled Source Electromagnetic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing (135495)
Matthew John Couchman, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Mark Edward Everett, Texas A&M University College Station, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States
On Estimation of Fracture Aperture with Ground Penetrating Radar (119047)
Niklas Linde and Alexis Shakas, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Plane Wave Electromagnetic Reflection and Transmission from a Thin Geologic Layer (144207)
David F Aldridge, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Chester J Weiss, Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics Department, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Electromagnetic Measurements in an Active Oilfield Environment (148594)
Katherine Anderson Aur1, Chester J Weiss2, Kimberly A Schramm1, David F Aldridge1 and William T O'rourke1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics Department, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Magnetotelluric Study on the Donan Geothermal Field, Southern Part of Hokkaido, Japan (154423)
Midori Hayakawa, Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and Toru Mogi, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Detection and Analysis of the Magnetic Field Component of Electromagnetic Radiation Emission from Macroscopic Fracturing of Cement-Bound Granular Material (155304)
Joel Tiu Maquiling, Ateneo de Manila University, Department of Physics, Quezon City, Philippines and Paul Ivan B. Ceralde, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
Monitoring Induced Fractures with Electrical Measurements using Depth to Surface Resistivity: A Field Case Study (162639)
Michael Wilt1, Gregory Nieuwenhuis2, Shengjie Sun2,3 and Kristopher MacLennan4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)GroundMetrics Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (3)GroundMetrics, Inc, San Diego, CA, United States, (4)GroundMetrics Inc., San Diego, United States
Robust Estimation of Temporal Resistivity Variations from Magnetotelluric Data (170632)
Olaf Josafat Cortés-Arroyo, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Applied Geophysics, San Diego, CA, United States, Jose M Romo, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, San Diego, CA, United States and Enrique Gomez-Trevino, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
What is the smallest change caused by geothermal fluids at depth that can be seen from magnetotelluric monitoring? (177918)
Hugo Larnier1, Pascal Sailhac2, Abdelfettah Yassine1,3 and Eva Schill4, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Nuclear Waste Disposal (INE), Karlsruhe, Germany
Examining the impact of steel cased wells on electromagnetic signals (Invited) (185460)
Lindsey Justine Heagy and Doug Oldenburg, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
GPR Phase Response to Fracture Saline Tracers (190158)
Georgios P Tsoflias, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, United States and Matthew Becker, California State University Long Beach, Earth Science, Long Beach, CA, United States
Monitoring an EGS injection at Newberry Volcano using Magnetotelluric dimensionality analysis (193877)
Esteban Bowles-martinez, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Adam Schultz, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany, United States and Scott Urquhart, Zonge Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States

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