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Hydraulic Fracturing Using Heavy Brine and Microseismic Monitoring in Yufutsu Oil and Gas Field

R. Kamitsuji, K. Nagai, Y. Matsuno, Y. Ohsaki, T. Tamagawa, K. Tezuka

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Hydraulic fracturing using heavy brine was conducted to stimulate the deeper part of the completion interval in the naturally fractured reservoir, Yufutsu Japan. The microseismic monitoring and the temperature surveys showed that the deeper part was stimulated effectively as expected.

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Key concepts: Microseism, Hydraulic fracturing, Brine, Petroleum engineering, Geology, Oil field, Environmental science, Seismology