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Microseismic Data Standards or Non-standards!!
Shawn Maxwell
Microseismic Monitoring Business
~$200M spent on hydraulic fracture monitoring
~100,000+ frac stages monitored around the globe (~5% of fracs)
Rapidly expanding with new vendors, clients and academics
Regulatory bodies are increasing involved
There are no current microseismic data standards
Inefficiencies
Loss of data
Confusion
Ad hoc attempts to fill the gaps
“Ad Hoc” Microseismic Standardization Initiatives
• CSEG “Guidelines”
• Data types: archiving and trading
• www.cseg.ca/cgf
• Energistics attributes xml
• http://www.energistics.org
• “SEG-2M” User Group
• Microseismic friendly headers
Continuous: SEGD SEGY SEG2
Events: SEGY SEG2
CSEG
Guidelines
Requirements
Attributes
Energistics
Trace
SEG Standard
Request
• SEG Technical Standards develop a microseismic strategy
• Attributes? Energistics?
• Trace Data
• Support SEG2M?