MONITORING AND INTERPRETATION OF MICROSEISMS INDUCED BY FLUID INJECTION N. R. Warpinski Sandia National Labs.

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MONITORING AND INTERPRETATION OF MICROSEISMS INDUCED BY FLUID INJECTION N. R. Warpinski Sandia National Labs

MICROSEISMS INDUCED BY FLUID INJECTION Outline Microseismic Overview Interpretation Are Results Meaningful For Long-Term Fluid Injection How Can The Results Be Interpreted Examples Simulated (Based On Actual Results) Actual Field Tests

MICROSEISMS INDUCED BY HYDRAULIC FRACTURING Microseisms are generally seismic energy emitted by shear slippage along weakness planes in the earth Hydraulic Fracture Increases Stress Increases Pore Pressure Natural Fractures Are Destabilized & Slip Slippage Emits Seismic Energy smax smin P Leakoff Stress Natural Fracture

MICROSEISMS Slippage Emits Both P & S Waves (Compressional & Shear) Velocities Are Different P Wave > S Wave Detected At Tri-Axial Receiver SHEAR SLIPPAGE P(t1) S(t1) P(t2) S(t2) RECEIVER X Y P X S Y

MICROSEISMIC MAPPING Surface (Too Far) Treatment Well (Too Noisy) FRACTURE MICROSEISM RECEIVERS FRACTURE MICROSEISM RECEIVERS

MICROSEISMIC MAPPING Two Approaches For Offset Wells MULTI-WELL SINGLE-WELL FRACTURE MICROSEISM FRACTURE MICROSEISM RECEIVERS

SINGLE-WELL MAPPING Distance And Elevation From Arrival Times Direction From P-wave Particle Motion Also Microseisms: Small Amplitude, High Frequency Receiver Distance = Typical Interwell Spacing Requires: High Quality Receivers FRACTURE RECEIVERS RESERVOIR MICROSEISM

EXAMPLE MICROSEISM TRACE 12.5 25 msec

MICROSEISMIC TECHNOLOGY PROCESSING Automatic Event Detection (Event Comb) Automatic Event Processing P-Wave Arrival S-Wave Arrival P-Wave Particle Motion Location Processing Homogeneous Model Joint P-S Distance Regression Layered Model Vidale/Nelson Algorithm Elevation, Distance Azimuth

ADDITIONAL DATA REQUIRED Formation Velocity Advanced Sonic Log (P & S Waves) Crosswell Survey Receiver Orientation Perforations Air Gun Or Other Source Full-interval Scan Surveys Surface Survey (Well-to-well) Deviation Surveys

MICROSEISMIC TECHNOLOGY Procedure Prior Day Mobilize and Set Up on Site Orientation With Airgun or Perforations Background Monitoring Frac Day Fracture Monitoring Real-Time or Near-Real-Time Processing Well-Site Result Demobilize

MICROSEISMIC VIEWING DISTANCES Fenton Hill Granite (LANL) Camborne Granite (UKDOE) Austin Chalk (LANL) Frio Sandstone (ARCO) North Slope Sandstone (ARCO) Barnett Shale Mesaverde Sandstone Frontier Sandstone Cotton Valley Sandstone (UPR) 5000 ft 4500 ft 2500 ft 1500 ft 3000 ft 800 ft 1000 ft 2000 ft

MICROSEISMIC LIMITATIONS Need An Offset Well Treatment Well: Difficult Environment Offset-Well Limitations Spacing Between Treatment and Monitor Well Cannot Be Excessive Quiet Environment (No Bubbling Perforations) Reservoir Difficulties Attenuation, Layering, Cultural Noise Receiver Orientation Physical Receiver Limitations Size, Temperature, Pressure, Etc

MICROSEISMIC INTERPRETATION Microseisms Originate In An Envelope Surrounding The Fracture, Giving Height Length Azimuth Asymmetry MICROSEISMS INDUCED BY STRESS CHANGES NEAR TIP MICROSEISMS INDUCED BY LEAKOFF ENVELOPE NATURAL FRACTURES

MICROSEISMIC INTERPRETATION Highly Compressible Formation Fluids (Gas Reservoir) COMPRESSIVE TENSILE SHEAR LEAKOFF DISTANCE NORMAL TO FRACTURE PRESSURE Pf sc Pi LEAKOFF STRESS

MICROSEISMIC INTERPRETATION Incompressible Formation Fluids (Gas Reservoir) COMPRESSIVE TENSILE SHEAR LEAKOFF DISTANCE NORMAL TO FRACTURE PRESSURE Pf sc Pi LEAKOFF STRESS

FULL POROELASTIC EFFECTS Displacement At 1000 ft Distance (Normal To Fracture) 5000 5500 6000 6500 7000 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16 Displacement (inches) Depth (ft) 0.01 hr 0.1 hr 1.0 hr 10 hr DATA 2D Fracture k=50 md f=0.2 n=0.22 E=6.e6 psi H=100 ft Pf=4500 psi Pi=2600 psi sc=4000 psi Based On M.B. Smith Analysis In SPEJ, 1985

PORE PRESSURE DESTABILIZATION Historical Data: Earthquake Hazard Associated With Deep Well Injection - A Report To The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency USGS Geological Survey Bulletin 1951 C. Nicholson & R.L. Wesson, 1990 Long-Term Injections Waste Injection And Oil-Field Operations Large Destabilized Area Moderate Earthquakes Detected At The Surface

Las Alamos Hot Dry Rock Results

Camborne Hot Dry Rock Side View of Microseisms 3 Hours 11 Hours Scale = 200 m 3 Hours 11 Hours 27 Hours

SAN ANDRES WATERFLOOD (LANL) inj prod mon

MICROSEISMIC MONITORING OF LONG-TERM INJECTIONS Methodology For Microseismic Monitoring Monitor Initial Injection Behavior Image The Fracture Obtain Fracture Azimuth Examine Attributes Of Late-Time Behavior Clustering And Linear Trends Source Parameters And Stress Relief High Stress Relief Associated With Tip Microseisms Low Stress Relief Associated With Leakoff Microseisms

VALIDATION How Does the Seismically Disturbed Zone Relate to the Actual Fracture Geometry M-Site Experiments Height DownholeTiltmeters Measured Deformation Length Fracture Intersected a Lateral Well 287 ft from Treatment Well Azimuth (2 Fracture Intervals) Lateral Wells Intersected Fracture 135 & 287 ft from Treatment Well

M-SITE Field Laboratory For Fracture Diagnostic Research N72°W MWX-3 (5-LEVEL WIRELINE ARRAYS) N72°W MWX-2 (TREATMENT WELL) 2 INTERSECTION WELLS Two Monitor Wells Three Test Intervals 4300-4900 ft Depths Two Intersection Wells 4550 ft 4350 ft Fully Characterized Site IW-1B Piceance Basin IW-1C 30 Distance, m MONITOR WELL (CEMENTED IN ARRAYS)

M-SITE LENGTH VALIDATION 150 300 450 600 -450 -300 -150 West-East (ft) North (ft) MWX-3 MWX2 MONITOR N74W AT INTERSECTION INTERSECTION WELL

MICROSEISMIC SIMULATIONS Simulations Are Based On Microseismic Monitoring Results Actually Measured In Field Tests

MICROSEISMIC IMAGING EXAMPLES

MICROSEISMIC TECHNOLOGY Conclusions Process Monitoring, Optimization of Injection Procedures, and Regulatory Issues Make Subsurface Imaging an Important Capability Technology Is Now at the Level to Apply Microseismic Diagnostics Advanced Receivers Fiber-optic Telemetry Computer Processing Understanding of Reservoir Structural Behavior