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NSERC announces the Microseismic Industry Consortium as the recipient of the 2020 Synergy award. This award stands as a tribute to all researchers and industry sponsors who have been involved in the Consortium.Dr. Eaton receives 2020 Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Award. This prestigious recognition is a competitive award, and it is awarded to a scientist who …

May 25, 2020 – Dr. Eaton receives 2020 Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Award Read More »

NSERC announces the Microseismic Industry Consortium as the recipient of the 2020 Synergy award. This award stands as a tribute to all researchers and industry sponsors who have been involved in the Consortium. Thanks to everyone who has worked extremely hard over the years to help us achieve this recognition! Full article: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Synergy-Synergie/Profiles-Profils/Eaton-vanderBaan_eng.asp

Please join us in congratulating Hanh Bui on being selected to receive the award for Best Student Paper Presented at the 2020 SEG Annual Meeting for her paper Event detection using a fast matched filter algorithm — An efficient way to deal with big microseismic data sets. Her article is available online: https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/segam2020-3420645.1

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

Please join us in congratulating Hanh Bui and Thomas Eyre for each being voted as one of the top 25 presentations (among 764 papers) at the 2020 SEG meeting!

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 …

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

The IMGW Geophysics group has had the pleasure to host Prof. David W. Eaton on the 14th of June 2016. Prof. Eaton works at the department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary (AB, Canada) and he is founder and director together with Prof. Mirko Van der Baan (University of Alberta) of the Microseismic Industry …

Jun 14, 2016 – Prof. David Eaton visited IMGW Geophysics Read More »

Next MUG is scheduled for Feb 25th (12 noon at CGG Auditorium). Speaker will be Mirko van de Baan. Geomechanical modeling of induced microseismicity. To view the abstract and register go to CSEG website.