Numerical Modeling of Microseismic Events on the Surface

Abstract

The urgency of conducting microseismic studies in the process of hydraulic fracturing is considered in the article. The increased interest in this area in domestic geophysics is a reflection of the current challenges of the oil industry: an increase in the share of non-traditional and hard-to-recover reserves in the structure of the assets being developed. Increased interest of researchers in the issue of microseismic monitoring makes it necessary to develop methodological recommendations for the most effective positioning of field observation systems, as well as for choosing the most correct method for solving the inverse problem. Achieving this goal is impossible without digital modeling, which will allow, in conditions of a priori known solution, to develop recommendations for optimizing each of the MSM. Within the framework of the article, the first stage of this large-scale work is considered, which consists in setting up a digital experiment - obtaining synthetic seismograms of MSM.