Earth Resources Laboratory Annual Report 2013
Table of Contents
Session 1: Fluid /Reservoirs Interactions: Joint Flow-Seismic Inversion
Sensitivity of time lapse seismic data to the compliance of hydraulic fractures – Xinding Fang, Xuefeng
Shang, and Michael Fehler *
Data inversion in coupled subsurface flow and geomechanics models – Marco A. Iglesias22 and Dennis
McLaughlin
Joint flow–seismic inversion for characterizing fractured reservoirs: theoretical approach and numerical
modeling – Peter K. Kang, Yingcai Zheng, Xinding Fang, Rafal Wojcik, Dennis McLaughlin, Stephen
Brown, Michael C. Fehler, Daniel R. Burns, and Ruben Juanes *
Efficient characterization of uncertain model parameters with a reduced-order ensemble Kalman filter –
Binghuai Lin and Dennis Mclaughlin
Real-time ensemble control with reduced-order modeling – Binghuai Lin and Dennis Mclaughlin
Estimating the fracture density of small-scale vertical fractures when large-scale vertical fractures are
present –Yuwei Liu12, Mike Fehler, Xinding Fang, and Cai Liu12
*
Precise inversion of logged slownesses for elastic parameters in a gas shale formation – Douglas E.
Miller, Steve A. Horne3, and John Walsh16
Seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs by focusing Gaussian beams – Yingcai Zheng, Xinding
Fang, Michael C. Fehler, and Daniel R. Burns
Seismic characterization of reservoirs with variable fracture spacing by double focusing Gaussian beams
– Yingcai Zheng, Xinding Fang, and Michael C. Fehler *
Session 2: Fluid /Reservoirs Interactions: Change Dynamics
Effect of borehole stress concentration on compressional wave velocity measurements – Xinding Fang,
Michael Fehler, and Arthur Cheng9
*
Experimental measurements of the streaming potential and seismoelectric conversion in Berea sandstone
– Zhenya Zhu and M. Nafi Toksöz
Experimental studies of the acoustic wave field near a borehole – Zhenya Zhu, Xien Liu4, Chen Gu, and
M. Nafi Toksöz *
Session 3: New Student and Post Doc Introductions
Student presentations – Alison Malcolm Students: Junlun Li, Hui Huang, Sudish Bakku, Ruel Jerry,
Clarion Hess, Kai Pan, Yuval Tal, Jingshuang Li, Yuwei Liu, Jing Liu, Haoyue Wang, Lucas Willemsen,
Post Docs: Dylan Mikesell, Bruce Jones, Elizabeth Day, and Bérénice Froment
Session 4: Geomechanics and Microseismic: Methodology
Analysis of location uncertainty for a microearthquake cluster: A case study – Gabriela Melo, Alison
Malcolm, Oleg Poliannikov, and Michael Fehler *
Joint microseismic event location with uncertain velocity – Oleg V. Poliannikov, Michael Prange17,
Alison E. Malcolm, and Hugues Djikpesse17 *
A unified Bayesian framework for relative microseismic location – Oleg V. Poliannikov, Michael
Prange17, Alison Malcolm, and Hugues Djikpesse17
Converted phase elastic migration velocity analysis – Andrey H. Shabelansky, Alison Malcolm, Mike
Fehler, Xuefeng Shang, and William Rodi *
Full-waveform based microseismic event detection and signal enhancement: The subsurface approach –
Fuxian Song, Norm Warpinski14, M. Nafi Toksöz, and Huseyin Kuleli
Full-waveform based microseismic source mechanism studies in the Barnett Shale: Linking
microseismicity to reservoir geomechanics – Fuxian Song, Norm Warpinski14 and M. Nafi Toksöz
An experimental study of the brittle-ductile transition of basalt at oceanic crust pressure and temperature
conditions – Marie Violay8,11, Benoit Gibert8, David Mainprice8, Brian Evans, Jean-Marie Dautria8,
Pierre Azais8, and Philippe Pezard8
Session 5: Geomechanics and Microseismic: Geomechanics
No geologic evidence that seismicity causes fault leakage that would render large-scale carbon capture
and storage unsuccessful – Ruben Juanes, Bradford H. Hager, and Howard J. Herzog
Compressive strength and elastic properties of a transversely isotropic calcareous mudstone – Douglas
Miller, Richard Plumb15, and Gregory Boitnott13
Influence of stress, temperature, and strain on calcite twins constrained by deformation experiments – E.
Rybacki 5, B. Evans, C. Janssen5, R. Wirth5, and G. Dresen5
Session 6: Subsurface Heterogeneity: Modeling and Estimation
Numerical modeling of elastic wave scattering by near- surface heterogeneities – Abdulaziz AlMuhaidib
and M. Nafi Toksöz *
High-dimensional wave atoms and compression of seismic datasets – Matti Leinonen1, Russell J. Hewett,
Xiangxiong Zhang, Lexing Ying19, and Laurent Demanet *
Simultaneous estimation of reflectivity and geologic texture: Least-squares migration with a hierarchical
Bayesian model – S. Ahmad Zamanian, Jonathan Kane18, William Rodi, and Michael Fehler *
Time-stepping beyond CFL: a locally one-dimensional scheme for acoustic wave propagation – Leonardo
Zepeda-N´u˜nez, Russell J. Hewett, Minghua Michel Rao6, and Laurent Demanet *
Session 7: Subsurface Heterogeneity: Imaging and Methodologies
Registration-guided least-squares waveform inversion – Hyoungsu Baek, Henri Calandra20, and Laurent
Demanet
The failure mode of correlation focusing for model velocity estimation – Hyoungsu Baek, Henri
Calandra20, and Laurent Demanet *
3D Weak-dispersion reverse-time migration with a stereo modeling method – Jingshuang Li21, Mike
Fehler, Dinghui Yang21, and Xueyuan Huang21 *
Using SVD for improved interferometric Green’s function retrieval – Gabriela Melo, Alison Malcolm,
Dylan Mikesell 2,7, and Kasper van Wijk7
Reverse time migration in the presence of known sharp interfaces – Alan Richardson and Alison E.
Malcolm *
Efficient stochastic Hessian estimation for full waveform inversion – Lucas A. Willemsen, Alison E.
Malcolm, and Russell J. Hewett *
Double-difference waveform inversion of 4D ocean bottom cable data: Application to Valhall, North Sea
– Di Yang, Michael Fehler, Alison Malcolm, Faqi Liu10 and Scott Morton10 *
Using image warping for time-lapse image domain wavefield tomography – Di Yang, Alison Malcolm,
and Mike Fehler *
1
Aalto University
Boise State University
3
Chevron Corporation
4
China Oil Field Services
5
Deutsches Geoforschungs Zentrum Potsdam
6
Ecole Polytechnique
7
G´eoazur, Universit´e de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
8
Géosciences Montpellier
9
Halliburton
10
Hess Corporation
11
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
12
Jilin University
13
New England Research
14
Pinnacle/Halliburton
15
Plumb Geomechanics LLC
16
Schlumberger DCS
17
Schlumberger-Doll Research
18
Shell International E&P, Inc.
19
Stanford University
20
TOTALS.A.
21
Tsinghua University
22
University of Warwick
2
* Abstracts submitted to the 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting