Hydromechanical and frictional faulting behavior of fluid-injection-induced earthquakes
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This work serves to advance a fundamental understanding on the role of the coupled interaction between hydromechanical and frictional processes that influence fluid-injection-induced earthquakes. An analysis of the hydraulic stimulation and fluid circulation experiments at the Fenton Hill Enhanced Geothermal System test site supported the hypothesis that permeability enhancement occurred though a mixed-mechanism combination of mechanical opening of fractures and propagation of hydraulic splay fractures from the tips of preexisting natural fractures. A novel field test, called microseismic depletion delineation, was demonstrated to provide useful reservoir engineering information about production trends near horizontal wells in unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. An investigation of the 2011 Mw 5.6 Prague, Oklahoma earthquake sequence suggested that an initial undrained response resulting from elastic stress transfer from the foreshock followed by transient fluid flow along the fault may have influenced the timing of the main shock. The relationship between wastewater disposal well operational data and statistics of earthquake sequences that inform seismic hazard analyses was investigated using a coupled fluid flow and rate-and-state earthquake model.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Norbeck, Jack Hunter |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Horne, Roland N |
| Thesis advisor | Horne, Roland N |
| Thesis advisor | Dunham, Eric |
| Thesis advisor | Zoback, Mark D |
| Advisor | Dunham, Eric |
| Advisor | Zoback, Mark D |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jack Hunter Norbeck. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Energy Resources Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Jack Hunter Norbeck
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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