Derivation of a near-surface damping model for the Groningen gas field

被引:5
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作者
Ruigrok, E. [1 ,2 ]
Rodriguez-Marek, A. [3 ]
Edwards, B. [4 ]
Kruiver, P. P. [1 ]
Dost, B. [1 ]
Bommer, J. [5 ]
机构
[1] Royal Netherlands Meteorol Inst KNMI, R&D Seismol & Acoust, Utrechtseweg 297, NL-3731 GA Bilt, Netherlands
[2] Univ Utrecht, Dept Earth Sci, Princetonlaan 8a, NL-3584 CB Utrecht, Netherlands
[3] Virginia Tech, Charles E Via Jr Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[4] Univ Liverpool, Dept Earth Ocean & Ecol Sci, Liverpool L69 3GP, Merseyside, England
[5] Imperial Coll London, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, London SW7 2AZ, England
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词
Downhole methods; Induced seismicity; Seismic attenuation; Seismic interferometry; Site effects; Wave scattering and diffraction; S-WAVE ATTENUATION; VSP DATA; BOREHOLE; DECONVOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; HAZARD;
D O I
10.1093/gji/ggac069
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
Seismic damping of near-surface deposits is an important input to site-response analysis for seismic hazard assessment. In Groningen, the Netherlands, gas production from a reservoir at 3 km depth causes seismicity. Above the gas field, an 800 m thick layer of unconsolidated sediments exist, which consists of a mixture of sand, gravel, clay and peat strata. Shear waves induced at 3 km depth experience most of their anelastic attenuation in these loose sediments. A good estimate of damping is therefore crucial for modelling realistic ground-motion levels. In Groningen, we take advantage of a large network of 200 m deep vertical arrays to estimate damping from recordings of the induced events. As a first step, we apply seismic interferometry by deconvolution to estimate local transfer functions over these vertical arrays. Subsequently, two different methods are employed. The first is the 'upgoing' method, where the amplitude decay of the retrieved upgoing wave is used. The second is the 'up-down' method, where the amplitude difference between retrieved up- and downgoing waves is utilized. For the upgoing method, the amplitude of the upgoing direct wave is affected by both elastic and anelastic effects. In order to estimate the anelastic attenuation, it is necessary to remove the elastic amplification first. Despite the fact that elastic compensation could be determined quite accurately, non-physical damping values were estimated for a number of boreholes. Likely, the underlying cause was small differences in effective response functions of geophones at different depths. It was found that the up-down method is more robust. With this method, elastic propagation corrections are not needed. In addition, small differences in in situ geophone response are irrelevant because the up- and downgoing waves retrieved at the same geophone are used. For the 1-D case, we showed that for estimating the local transfer function, the complex reverberations need to be included in the interferometric process. Only when this is done, the transfer function does not contain elastic transmission loss and Q estimation can be made without knowing the soil profile in detail. Uncertainty in the estimated damping was found from the signal-to-noise ratio of the estimated transfer function. The Q profiles estimated with the up-down method were used to derive a damping model for the top 200 m of the entire Groningen field. A scaling relation was derived by comparing estimated Q profiles with low-strain damping profiles that were constructed using published models for low-strain damping linked to soil properties. This scaling relation, together with the soil-property-based damping model, allowed up-scaling of the model to each grid-cell in the Groningen field. For depths below 200 m, damping was derived from the attenuation of the microseism over Groningen. The mean damping model, over a frequency band between 2 and 20 Hz, was estimated to be 2.0 per cent (0-50 m depth), 1.3 per cent (50-100 m), 0.66 per cent (100-150 m), 0.57 per cent (150-200 m) and 0.5 per cent (200-580 m).
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页码:776 / 795
页数:20
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