March 7 GSP Meeting

Tuesday, March 7

Cefalo's Banquet and Event Center

428 Washington Ave., Carnegie, PA

DIRECTIONS

5:00 - Social Hour

6:00 - Dinner Buffet

7:00 - Lecture

Abstract: Hydraulic fracturing is used to liberate hydrocarbons within unconventional resources; however, the heterogeneity in formations and the dynamics of the stress fields during multi-well completions leads to complexities in the process of estimating reserves that can be produced.  Advanced processing of microseismic data offers an opportunity to understand the variations in growth as related to geological and completion-related factors, especially through integration of other datasets such as chemical tracer data.  Spatial microseismic event distributions by themselves tend to yield significant overestimates of stimulated volume, but when advanced processing such as seismic moment tensor inversion (SMTI) is used, the connectivity of the fracture network and the openings and closures of the fracture network can be established.  Download Full Abstract

Biography: Marc Prince is a senior geophysicist with more than 18 years of seismological related experience.  Marc has spent the last 16 years at ESG where he has been involved in all aspects of microseismic project planning, field operations and data analysis.  As Group Manager, International Business Development for ESG’s global energy services division, he currently provides technical sales support to ESG’s global projects as well as technical project design and guidance for data processing.  Marc earned his B.Sc. in geophysics from the University of Waterloo and is a member of the SEG, SPE and EAGE.

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