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EKOFISK SEISMIC EVENT OF MAY 7, 2001 Lars Ottem öller (BGS, UK) Hardy Hartmann Nielsen ( PhillipsConoco , Norway) Jochen Braunmiller (ETHZ, Switzerland ) Kuvvet Atakan , Jens Havkov (University of Bergen, Norway). (from Fejerskov and Lindholm, 2000).
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EKOFISK SEISMIC EVENT OF MAY 7, 2001 Lars Ottemöller (BGS, UK)Hardy Hartmann Nielsen (PhillipsConoco, Norway)Jochen Braunmiller (ETHZ, Switzerland) Kuvvet Atakan, Jens Havkov (University of Bergen, Norway)
Date 07.05.2001; Time 09:43:34Loc. 56.565 N / 3.182; RMS=1.1; Mb=4.4; MS=4.6
Strike: 356Dip: 85Rake: -92 Mw: 5.1
Natural: Earthquakes caused by purely tectonic stresses • Triggered: Earthquakes caused by tectonic stresses that are initiated by human activity • Induced: Earthquakes caused by stresses that can be traced directly to human activity
Basic mechanisms • Local fluid injection decreases effective normal stress and induces seismic cracks M<3 within the reservoir • Fluid withdrawal causes pore pressure to decrease within reservoir, stresses are transferred to surrounding region where M<5 occur above or below reservoir • Isostatic compensation after load removal through hydrocarbon recovery can cause M>6 at larger distance (after Grasso, 1992)
Ekofisk facts • Started production in 1971 • Chalk reservoir at depth of ~3 km • Production now is ~340000 barrel oil and ~11*106 m3 gas per day • Total of more than 8 m subsidence • Water flooding program started early 1990s, led to increase in pore pressure and reduced subsidence • Drill cuttings re-injection into overburden started 1996 after extensive risk and cost evaluation • Induced micro-earthquakes on reservoir level, about 100 per day • Causal relation between seismicity and production not resolved
Conclusions • Event induced • Located in the overburden • Cause is unintended water-injection into overburden • Event was sudden compaction of overburden