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Sep 6, 2020 – First talk of David Eaton CSEG Distinguished Lecture Tour

Dave Eaton’s inaugural presentation for his CSEG Distinguished Lecture tour which will be held on Thursday, September 12, 3:30pm – 4:40pm at the Earth Sciences building (ES162), University of Calgary. (Detail see https://science.ucalgary.ca/events#!view/day/date/20190912). The presentation is titled ‘‘Crustal Fluids, Friction and Faults: What can we learn from injection-induced earthquakes?”. It will include recent research that has been part …

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Aug 13, 2020 – MIC Summer Research Workshop: Casing Deformation

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will continue its tradition of holding an annual research workshop, on Thursday, August 13th, 2020, to enable a detailed discussion of a topic of current interest to companies. This year’s research workshop will use an online format and will focus on observations of casing deformation, along with geomechanical modeling to understand …

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May 7, 2020 – Members of MIC have contributed as co-authors to recent publications on induced seismicity published in top international journalsMay 7, 2020 –

Two papers published in the top journals with contributions from MIC members: 1. Nature Reviews of Earth and Environment: Atkinson, G.M., Eaton, D.W. & Igonin, N. Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2020).  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0049-7 2. Reviews of Geophysics: Schultz, R., Skoumal, R.J., Brudzinski, M.R., Eaton, D.W., Baptie, B. & Ellsworth, W., Hydraulic Fracturing …

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May 1, 2020 – MIC and partners successfully acquire dip-in DAS dataset

As part of MIC’s ongoing research program, the University of Calgary partnered with sponsors ARC Resources and OptaSense, and wireline and conveyance service providers ESG Solutions and Altus Intervention, to acquire a wireline (dip-in) distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) monitoring dataset in northeastern BC in January 2021. The dataset was acquired to monitor a multi-well completion program in the Montney play to …

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