Geophysics • Vol 85 • No 2
Imaging of a fluid injection process using geophysical data — A didactic example
November 2019 • Michael Commer, Steven R. Pride, D. W. Vasco, Stefan Finsterle, Michael B. Kowalsky
In many subsurface industrial applications, fluids are injected into or withdrawn from a geologic formation. It is of practical interest to quantify precisely where, when, and by how much the injected fluid alters the state of the subsurface. Routine geophysical monitoring of such processes attempts to image the way that geophysical properties, such as seismic velocities or electrical conductivity, change through time and space and to then make qualitative inferences as to where the injected fluid has migrated. Th…