Quantitative integration of microseismic with 3D seismic inversion to predict Effective Minimum Horizontal Stress to characterize geomechanical rock properties for unconventional plays
Our Speakers:
Bill Goodway,
Scientific Advisor
Qeye
Abstract:
The ability to high-grade unconventional resource plays is an essential requirement for optimizing completions to maximize stimulated rock volume. Effective hydraulic pore pressure stimulation requires the opening of existing natural fractures and the presence of conducive geomechanical properties within the formation capable of supporting extensive induced fractures.
This presentation will describe the combined use of microseismic verification and validation with rock physics 3D seismic inversion including pore pressure and differential horizontal tectonic stress anisotropy used to estimate the Effective Minimum Horizontal Closure Stress gradient to predict effective stimulated permeability. These microseismic and seismic derived geomechanical model estimates can then be quantitatively correlated and calibrated to engineering DFIT measurements.
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Speaker Bios:
Bill Goodway obtained a B.Sc. in Geology from University College London and an M.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of Calgary. After working in the United Kingdom, he joined PanCanadian Petroleum in 1985 where he became Team Lead of a Seismic Analysis Group. Following the EnCana merger he continued in Frontier-New Ventures and Canadian Gas Shales, as Advisor for Seismic Analysis. In 2010 Bill joined Apache as Manager Geophysics-Advisor Senior Staff, involved in all aspects of seismic acquisition design, processing interaction, experimental special projects and new AVO methods. In 2019 Bill joined Qeye as Scientific Advisor Quantitative Interpretation and AVO technology.
Bill has authored numerous papers at CSEG, EAGE and SEG conventions on seismic acquisition and processing, borehole geophysics, anisotropy, multicomponent recording and QI/AVO.
Bill was awarded five CSEG Best Paper Awards from 1994 to 2025, the CSEG Medal in 2007 and was a past SEG Honorary Lecturer for North America. The CSEG recognized Bill as the 2013 Symposium honouree and in 2016 he received the SEG’s Reginald Fessenden Award for lambda-rho-mu (LMR) inversion technology.
