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Understanding flow behavior in a geothermal reservoir is important for managing sustainable geothermal energy extraction. Fluid flow in geothermal reservoirs generally occurs in complex existing fracture systems in which the reservoirs are situated in highly fractured rocks. To simulate a discrete fracture model, the location and orientation of the fracture were computed using statistical processes and observational data. In many cases, estimating the location and orientation of fractures from 1D borehole logging data is challenging. In this study, we used microseismic data to build the fracture network systems and extract the detailed positions and dimensions of the fractures. We used the microseismic data recorded at the Okuaizu Geothermal Field, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, from 2019 to 2021. First, we located the hypocenters, removing the effect of uncertainty in the velocity structure of the geothermal fluids. We relocated and clustered the seismic events based on waveform similarity. We analyzed each cluster to define the fracture orientation using principal component analysis (PCA) and focal mechanism (FM) analysis. We used the P polarity with the S/P ratio as a constraint for a better fault-plane solution. With PCA, we can extract the fracture dimension of each cluster. Our cluster analysis showed that the clusters were not always planar fractures, and we interpreted them as fracture zones. Based on the consistency between PCA and FM, each cluster/fracture zone was classified into three conceptual models to characterize the fracture network system in this field. This model showed variations in the orientation of small fractures within the fracture zone. We characterized the spatial variation in fracture distribution and orientations in the reservoir and demonstrated the fracture network system of this field. The fracture zone near the injection well has a N–S strike, and the dip is above 80°; however, the fracture zone in the northeastern part of the injection well has a NW–SE strike with a dip between 60° and 80°. The fracture network system estimated in this study is crucial for robust reservoir modeling because our model is more realistic, observation-orientated, and includes local anomalies of reservoir properties. Graphical Abstract
Understanding flow behavior in a geothermal reservoir is important for managing sustainable geothermal energy extraction. Fluid flow in geothermal reservoirs generally occurs in complex existing fracture systems in which the reservoirs are situated in highly fractured rocks. To simulate a discrete fracture model, the location and orientation of the fracture were computed using statistical processes and observational data. In many cases, estimating the location and orientation of fractures from 1D borehole logging data is challenging. In this study, we used microseismic data to build the fracture network systems and extract the detailed positions and dimensions of the fractures. We used the microseismic data recorded at the Okuaizu Geothermal Field, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, from 2019 to 2021. First, we located the hypocenters, removing the effect of uncertainty in the velocity structure of the geothermal fluids. We relocated and clustered the seismic events based on waveform similarity. We analyzed each cluster to define the fracture orientation using principal component analysis (PCA) and focal mechanism (FM) analysis. We used the P polarity with the S/P ratio as a constraint for a better fault-plane solution. With PCA, we can extract the fracture dimension of each cluster. Our cluster analysis showed that the clusters were not always planar fractures, and we interpreted them as fracture zones. Based on the consistency between PCA and FM, each cluster/fracture zone was classified into three conceptual models to characterize the fracture network system in this field. This model showed variations in the orientation of small fractures within the fracture zone. We characterized the spatial variation in fracture distribution and orientations in the reservoir and demonstrated the fracture network system of this field. The fracture zone near the injection well has a N–S strike, and the dip is above 80°; however, the fracture zone in the northeastern part of the injection well has a NW–SE strike with a dip between 60° and 80°. The fracture network system estimated in this study is crucial for robust reservoir modeling because our model is more realistic, observation-orientated, and includes local anomalies of reservoir properties. Graphical Abstract
Here, we present the results of applying diverse data processing and machine learning tools to investigate a very large dataset obtained from single station infrasonic recordings from the last 10 yr of the most recent period of explosive activity at Tungurahua volcano, Ecuador. To increase the quality and quantity of information extracted from the large data set and enhance pattern recognition, we combined traditional techniques with more recent ones. We divided the investigation into sequential steps: detection, discrimination, cleaning, and clustering. For the detection step, we tested the classical short-term average/long-term average algorithm and an algorithm specific for explosions detection called “Volcanic INfrasound Explosions Detector Algorithm (VINEDA)” and detected 118,516 events. To clean the detected signals from potential false positives, we used supervised classification that reduced the events to 75,483, and a catalog cleaning procedure using shallow learners including support vector machines, random forests, and a single layer neural network, trained using data from a manual catalog, to a final number of 36,359 events. This led to a sixfold increase in detected explosions compared to the manual catalog. Then, we applied hierarchical clustering to a well-studied time window of activity using two independent difference metrics: dynamic time warping and waveform cross correlation and showed the insights and drawbacks from this approach. We showed that the different techniques were able to reveal repeating and striving events between selected different eruptive phases and associated them to possible changes in eruptive dynamics. Finally, to analyze the whole dataset at once we used a convolutional autoencoder network and obtained similar results to the classical clustering in a fraction of the time. We identified different families of explosions that appeared, sometimes intermittently, and revealed various potentially competing eruptive processes during the whole time period.
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