Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In seismology, of, pertaining to, or of the nature of microseisms, or very slight earthquake-tremors.
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- adjective Describing any small
seismic event that causes little or no damage or disturbance
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Examples
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As these symptoms were noticed at more than one hundred and thirty places within the Italian part of the central area, there can be little doubt that they were caused by microseismic movements for the most part insensible to man.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899
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As we ran microseismic on of those 3 wells, and it became clear to us that we needed to do something different, and so we actually changed the direction of our azimuth by 90 degrees, took off in another direction that seems to have worked very well.
unknown title 2011
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And we're planning a horizontal well, and we will be conducting microseismic on it to monitor the frac and do all the science work to fully evaluate how the well fracs.
unknown title 2011
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Will you be using microseismic for those wells just to see where you're getting production from?
unknown title 2011
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But those markets are essentially trending in tandem as opposed to -- it strikes me that perhaps the completions market with microseismic and variable staging is perhaps moving more towards an intelligent model faster than...
Schlumberger Limited CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha 2011
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It gave us opportunity to perform microseismic on our wells, to gain some knowledge about the frac growth directions, things like that.
unknown title 2011
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And when you guys frac those, have you done microseismic to see how that frac kind of propagates kind of up/down, sort of how far away from the wellbore you think that that kind of moves?
unknown title 2011
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So far it's in the -- everything we've done is in Sanish, and it's because we want to have the microseismic up there to see what we're doing.
unknown title 2011
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Yes, I don't think we would include microseismic in that because microseismic is a saltwater service.
Schlumberger Limited CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha 2011
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