A Non-Invasive Approach for Elucidating the Spatial Distribution of In Situ Stress in Deep Subsurface Geologic Formations Considered for CO2 Storage (Task 2 Report Extracting Stress Data from Seismic Data)
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Sterling Seismic & Reservoir Services, Littleton, CO (United States)
- Core Energy, LLC, Traverse City, MI (United States)
- Texseis, Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
This report describes research accomplishments achieved with funding provided through Department of Energy (DOE) Contract DE-FE0031686. The purpose of this DOE funding is to develop methods that can provide key information about stress fields that act on deep rocks without invading the earth to acquire that information. The research objective was to demonstrate methods that extract the azimuth directions of SHmax and SHmin stress in deep rocks from traditional seismic reflection data like the data that are used to explore for deep oil and gas reservoirs. Battelle performed two seismic investigations and achieved estimates of SHmax and SHmin azimuths in both efforts that agreed with local, non-seismic, ground-truth measurements of SHmax orientation. The first procedure utilized vertical seismic profiling (VSP) data; the second effort utilized three-dimensional (3D) seismic data.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FE0031686
- OSTI ID:
- 1890650
- Report Number(s):
- 5b55305f-eeea-42c5-b2fb-3b5d078f69d7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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