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Lecturer: Dr. Serge A. Shapiro, Professor of Geophysics
Place: aud. P1, S.P. Andersens veg 15A

Stimulations of rocks by fluid injections belong to a standard reservoir-development practice. Productions of shale oil, - shale gas, - heavy oil, - geothermal energy require broad applications of this technology. The fact that fluid injection causes seismicity has been well-established for several decades. Understanding and monitoring of fluid-induced seismicity is necessary for hydraulic characterization of reservoirs, for assessments of reservoir stimulations and for controlling the seismic risk. The course provides systematic quantitative rock-physical and geomechanical fundamentals of these aspects.

1. To demonstrate the potential of microseismic monitoring for characterization of hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs. 2. To provide a systematic introduction into quantitative interpretation of microseismic monitoring and into assessment of the hazard of induced seismicity.

Rock physics and geomechanics of induced seismicity (Lecture 1, 2 )

• Poroelastic phenomena and seismic waves
• Stress, pore pressure and rock failure
• Geomechanics of earthquakes

The method of microseismic monitoring (Lecture 3)

• Observation systems, detection and location of events
• Microseismic wavefields and imaging

Seismicity, pressure diffusion and hydraulic fracturing (Lecture 4, 5 and 6)

• Modelling of fluid-induced seismicity
• Seismicity during a fluid injection
• Seismicity after a termination of a fluid injection
• Hydraulic properties of reservoirs and induced seismicity
• Hydraulic fracturing of hydrocarbon reservoirs
• Seismicity induced by hydraulc fracturing
• Non-linear diffusion and seismicity in unconventional reservoirs

Hazard of induced seismicity (Lecture 7, 8)

• Rates and magnitudes of fluid-induced earthquakes
• Seismogenic index
• Statistics of large magnitudes

Serge A. Shapiro is Professor of Geophysics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and since 2004, Director of the PHASE (PHysics and Application of Seismic Emission) university consortium project. From 2001 till 2008 he was one of Coordinator of the German Continental Deep Drilling Program. His research interests include seismogenic processes, wave phenomena, exploration seismology, and rock physics. He received the SEG Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal in 2013 for his work on fluid-induced seismicity and rock physics, and in 2004 was elected a Fellow of The Institute of Physics.

Geophysicists, Geologists, Petrophysicits, Reservoir Engineers, Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Researchers, Interpreters.

S.A. Shapiro, 2015, Fluid-Induced Seismicity, Cambridge (U.K.): Cambridge University Press, pp 289., ISBN: 9780521884570. http://www.cambridge.org/9780521884570