NG12A:
Fracking, Triggering Cascades, and Power Scaling in Natural Systems I

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Session ID#: 15931

Session Description:
High volume, low frictional resistance fracking has unlocked oil and gas shale resources that had been inaccessible to production. How high volume fracking induces distributed fracturing that allows oil and gas recovery is not understood. The properties and scaling of natural fractures are known, but remain unknown for fracking. Fracking involves many interacting physical processes, including fluid flow, rock deformation, utilization of preexisting natural fractures, and feedbacks from the evolving fracture network. 

This session solicits papers on field, laboratory, and theoretical research that address the complexity of fracking, including but not limited to: (1) The basic mechanics of high volume hydraulic fracturing (2) The role of preexisting natural fractures in the process (3) Interactions between fluid injection and fracture branching (4) Induced seismic hazards and (5) Hazards associated with gas and fluid leakage.

Primary Convener:  Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States
Conveners:  Jörn Davidsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States
Chairs:  Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States, Lawrence M Cathles, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States and Jörn Davidsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States
Index Terms:

4415 Cascades [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4475 Scaling: spatial and temporal [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Complex ruptures during hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale (184242)
Gisela Fernandes Viegas1, Ted Urbancic2, Katherine Bosman1 and Adam M Baig2, (1)ESG Solutions, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)Engineering Seismology Group Canada Inc, Kingston, ON, Canada
Bedding Parallel Fractures in a Highly Anisotropic Shale Inferred From Shear-Wave Splitting (165248)
Dr. Alan F Baird1, J Michael Kendall1 and Jessica Budge2, (1)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)Nexen Energy ULC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Evaluation of Reservoir Deformation through Integrated Interpretation of Microseismic Inferred Dynamic Parameters (185627)
Ellie P. Ardakani1, Ted Urbancic2 and Adam M Baig2, (1)ESG Solutions, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)Engineering Seismology Group Canada Inc, Kingston, ON, Canada
Modeling the Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation performed for Reservoir Permeability Enhancement at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland (178883)
Randolph Settgast1, Daniel Vogler2, Valentin Gischig3, Mohammadreza Jalali3, Joseph Doetsch4, Benoit Valley5, Keith F Evans6, Christopher Sherman7, Martin O Saar2 and Florian Amann8, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)University of Neuchâtel, CHYN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, (6)Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech., Zurich, Switzerland, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (8)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hydraulic Fracturing: Laboratory Experiments and Theoretical Modelling (173719)
Joerg Renner and Yan Cheng, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for Geology, Mineralogy, and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany
Nucleation, growth and localisation of microcracks: implications for predictability of rock failure (Invited) (147346)
Ian Graham Main1, Ferenc Kun2, Gergő Pál2 and Zoltán Jánosi2, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Relating triggering processes in lab experiments with earthquakes. (166934)
Jordi Baro Urbea1, Jörn Davidsen1, Grzegorz Kwiatek2, Elli-Maria Charalampidou3, Thomas Goebel4, Sergei A Stanchits5, Eduard Vives6 and Georg Dresen2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Heriot–Watt University, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Science Department, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)TerraTek A Schlumberger Co., Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Accounting for orphaned aftershocks in the earthquake background rate. (Invited) (129385)
Nicholas van der Elst, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Volcanic Seismicity – The Power of the b-value (189778)
Nick Roberts1, Ian Graham Main1 and Andrew Forbes Bell2, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
Temporal and Spatial Power Laws of River Peak Flows and Flood Frequency Estimation (142921)
Witold F Krajewski, University of Iowa, Iowa Flood Center and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, Iowa City, United States, Ricardo Mantilla, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Gabriel Perez, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
Power Scaling and Seasonal Evolution of Floe Areas in the Arctic East Siberian Sea (139678)
Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States, Gregory R Geise, Wright State University Main Campus, Fairborn, OH, United States and Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States
The Size-Distribution and Volume of Earth's Lakes: Theory and Observations (154264)
B. B. Cael, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and David Seekell, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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