Abstract
Summary Hydraulic fracture treatments and fluid injections into fractured wells induce a useful cloud of microseismic sources in the fractured zone. This induced seismicity can last for hours after pumping and pervades the fracture. The source-size population distribution ranges from a countable (50 to 500) number of large, individually distinguishable events to a din of background events. Each source radiates wave motion, which can be recorded only in and near the fracture. A new method uses these motion data, recorded in the cased treatment well, to determine the fracture height and azimuth. The height is found by delineating the location and vertical extent of a spatial anomaly in the background-motion data. The azimuth is derived from the particle-motion polarization of the largest events of the microseismic event population. This paper describes the method, exemplary data sets, theory, and simulations that substantiate this method.
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