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Extraction of fluids to mitigate the seismic risk associated with post-injection aseismic slip
Subsurface fluid injections are commonly accompanied by seismicity which can sometimes result in earthquakes of relatively large magnitude that pose a serious hazard for the geo-energy industry. Current efforts to manage the seismic risk associated with fl ...
2023Three-dimensional fluid-driven frictional ruptures: theory and applications
Fluid-driven frictional ruptures are important in a broad range of subsurface engineering technologies and natural earthquake-related phenomena. Some examples of subsurface operations where borehole fluid injections can induce frictional slip are deep geot ...
EPFL2023A fully-coupled highly-parallelized geomechanical simulator for assessing induced seismicity
Jean-François Molinari, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Guillaume Anciaux, Nicolas Richart, Emil Gallyamov
Induced seismicity caused by anthropogenic modification of the subsurface effective stress state has been observed in a number of industrial applications -- from hydrocarbon extraction (e.g., Groningen [1]), drilling waste-water disposal (e.g., [2]) to the ...
2023Shearing and opening of a pre-existing discontinuity in response to fluid injection
Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Ankit Gupta, Alexis Alejandro Sáez Uribe
We investigate the fluid-driven growth of a shear crack along a frictional discontinuity and its transition to hydraulic fracturing (sometimes referred to as hydraulic jacking) under plane-strain conditions. We focus on the case of a constant friction coef ...
2023Spatio-temporal patterns of fluid-driven aseismic slip transients: implications to seismic swarms
Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Alexis Alejandro Sáez Uribe
Seismic swarms are often interpreted to be driven by natural fluid pressurization in the Earth’s crust, when seismicity is observed to spread away from a common origin and follows approximately a square-root-of-time pattern of growth. On the other hand, a ...
EGU2022Improving the Accuracy of Fracture Toughness Measurement in Burst Experiments
Experimental studies suggest that the fracture toughness of rocks increases with the confining pressure. Among many methods to quantify this dependency, a so-called burst experiment (Abou-Sayed, 1978) may be the most widely applied in practice. Its thick w ...
SPRINGER WIEN2022Brittle faulting of ductile rock induced by pore fluid pressure build‐up
Marie Estelle Solange Violay, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Corentin Jean-Marie Rémi Noël
Under upper crustal conditions, deformations are primarily brittle (i.e., localized) and accommodated by frictional mechanisms. At greater depth, deformations are ductile (i.e., distributed) and accommodated by crystal plasticity, diffusion mass transfer o ...
2021Stress management in the context of induced seismicity in subsurface reservoirs
The stress state of the subsurface has been shown to have an influence on a number of key processes. For example, the criticality of the stress state indicates how large stress changes need to be before a fault begins to slip, the mean effective stress con ...
EPFL2020Multi-well capture zones in strip-shaped aquifers
David Andrew Barry, Setareh Nagheli
Capture zone equations for a multi-well system in strip-shaped confined and unconfined aquifers with and without regional flow are presented. The aquifer is limited by two parallel boundaries that are either no flow (barrier) or inflow (variable head) so t ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2020Capture zone models of a multi-well system in aquifers bounded with regular and irregular inflow boundaries
David Andrew Barry, Setareh Nagheli
Being bounded by hydrological (inflow and barrier) boundaries, natural aquifers have regular/irregular shapes. Here, we consider aquifers bounded by segmental inflow (variable head) boundaries in which water is extracted/injected by a multi-well system. St ...
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