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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2013
Microseismic, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Jonathan P. McKenna, Golden, CO (US);
Microseismic, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for determining a volume of a fracture network includes detecting seismic signals deployed over an area of the subsurface during pumping of fracturing fluid into at least one wellbore drilled through the area. A hypocenter of each fracture induced by the pumping is determined using the seismic signals. A facture network and associated fracture volume is determined using the determined hypocenters and seismic moments determined from the detected seismic signals. A maximum value of a scaling factor is determined based on a subset of the hypocenters having a highest cumulative seismic moments. The scaling factor is determined by relating a pumped volume of the fracturing fluid with respect to the determined fracture volume. Dimensions of each fracture are scaled using the maximum value of the scaling factor. The fracture volumes are recalculated using the scaled dimensions.
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