3D geomechanical modelling of induced seismicity including intersecting faults and reservoir compartments

To investigate the physical processes behind induced seismicities due to, for example, production of hydrocarbons from a reservoir, most of the earlier studies performed geomechanical simulations on a simple reservoir geometry. The effect of fluid depletion is, in general, simulated for such a simple geometry. Neglecting the contribution of...

Fault intersection and induced seismicity: the effects on the induced stress field and the dynamic rupture, and their implications

Intersecting faults are often ignored in the geomechanical simulation of induced seismicity. To investigate the effects of fault intersection and the resulting reservoir geometry on induced seismicity, caused, for instance, by gas extraction, we have developed 3D geomechanical models considering two intersecting normal faults and the...