January GSP Meeting

When
January 10, 2017
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Cefalo's, 428 Washington Ave. Carnegie, PA

Registration

Member – $35.00
Non-Member – $40.00
Students – $20.00

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Tuesday, January 10

Cefalo's Banquet and Event Center

428 Washington Ave., Carnegie, PA

DIRECTIONS

5:00 - Social Hour

6:00 - Dinner Buffet

7:00 - Lecture

Comparison of Geomechanics of the Microseismic Response in Organic Shales of West Virginia and west Texas

Erich Zorn
Department of Energy

Abstract: Using an innovative workflow incorporating microseismic attributes and geomechanical well logs, we have defined major geomechanical drivers of microseismic expression to understand reservoir stimulation response in an engineering/geological context. Microseismic data from hydraulically fractured Marcellus wells in PA and WV, and a Wolfcamp well in the Midland Basin, TX, were sampled vertically through the event cloud, crossing shale and other lithologies. We focused our analysis on the organic shale, creating pseudo-logs of moment magnitude (Mw), seismogenic b-value, and event count. The vertical moving-average sampling of microseismic data was completed such that the sample interval Download Full Abstract

Biography: A Professional Geologist by education and practice, Erich spent 7 years in the engineering and consulting industry after earning his MS in Structural Geology. He returned to school in 2012 to earn a PhD with a focus in oil and gas geology and geophysics. His dissertation ended up being a study in the additional utility offered by microseismic data acquired during hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale, mainly focused upon integrating geology, seismology, geophysics, and mechanics to characterize reservoirs. During the course of his PhD, Erich completed two internships at Chevron ETC in Houston, working on fracture-induced anisotropy modelling, and received funding from the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, where he is currently a Post-Doctoral researcher. At NETL, Erich is involved in passive seismic monitoring of carbon sequestration, EOR, and hydraulic fracturing sites, and continues to work with microseismic data in search of new ways to squeeze out just a little bit more understanding.

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