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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2003
Gordon G. Sorrells, Garland, TX (US);
Norman R. Warpinski, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Chris Wright, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Eric Davis, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Gordon G. Sorrells, Garland, TX (US);
Norman R. Warpinski, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Chris Wright, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Eric Davis, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Pinnacle Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for determining the orientation of natural fractures in the Earth resulting from hydraulic fracturing treatment. Data attribute information from a far-field point-source signal profile for a microseismic event is extracted in the time domain. An estimate of the orientation of the natural fracture is calculated in the time domain based on the extracted data attribute information.