Microseismic monitoring — Introduction

Abstract

Most papers the readers find in this special section were presented at the First International Workshop on Microseismic Technology held in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, on 17–22 August 2014. The workshop’s organizing and technical program committee consisted of Werner Heigl (Apache Corporation), Vladimir Grechka (Marathon Oil), Leo Eisner (IRSM Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Christophe Maisons (Magnitude), Serge Shapiro (Freie University, Berlin), Julie Shemeta (MEQ Geo), and Stephen Wilson (Seismogenic). The workshop, designed to facilitate sharing of microseismic expertise and the key observations and findings, was organized with special attention to balancing the needs of industry and academia. To encourage participation from the industry, only brief abstracts of papers were requested and no recording was permitted at the workshop; to attract academic contributions, the special section in Geophysics was offered to authors who would be willing to develop their workshop presentations into full-scale papers. The workshop, attended by 80 geophysicists and engineers from 11 countries, was enthusiastically supported by operating and service companies, with sponsorship from ITASCA, Magnitude, Marathon Oil, Pinnacle, Read, Sigma 3 , and …