Earth Resources Laboratory Annual Report 2013 Table of Contents

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Earth Resources Laboratory Annual Report 2013

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 Liu}12

*

Precise inversion of logged slownesses for elastic parameters in a gas shale formation – Douglas E. Miller, Steve A. Horne3_{, and John Walsh}16

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,

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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 Djikpesse}17

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 Gibert}8_{, David Mainprice}8_{, Brian Evans, Jean-Marie Dautria}8_,

Pierre Azais8_{, and Philippe Pezard}8

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 Boitnott}13

Influence of stress, temperature, and strain on calcite twins constrained by deformation experiments – E. Rybacki 5_{, B. Evans, C. Janssen}5_{, R. Wirth}5_{, and G. Dresen}5

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 *}

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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 Huang}21_*

Using SVD for improved interferometric Green’s function retrieval – Gabriela Melo, Alison Malcolm, Dylan Mikesell 2,7_{, and Kasper van Wijk}7

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 Morton}10_*

Using image warping for time-lapse image domain wavefield tomography – Di Yang, Alison Malcolm, and Mike Fehler *

1_{Aalto University} 2_{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}