EGU23-13820
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13820
EGU General Assembly 2023
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Electric self-potential monitoring of hydraulic fracturing experiments in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden. 

Nadine Haaf1, Luis Guarracino2, Damien Jougnot3, and Eva Schill1,4
Nadine Haaf et al.
  • 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear waste disposal, Geoenergy, Germany (nadine.haaf@kit.edu)
  • 2Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
  • 3Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, Paris, France
  • 4Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 9, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

A number of six in situ hydraulic fracturing experiments were carried out at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (Sweden) in 2017 in a depth of 410 m. Here we present electric self-potential monitoring during the conventional and the step-wise cyclic injection experiments HF2 and HF3. Electric self-potential data were acquired through a two-sensor array, each including nine measuring probes and one base probe, that were installed at the 410 m and 280 m levels. The experimental borehole F1 is drilled in the direction of Shmin, perpendicular to the expected fracture plane. The self-potential sensors are installed sub-parallel to Shmin at level 410 at a distance of 50-75 m to the borehole F1 and sub-perpendicular to Shmin at level 280 m at a distance of 150-200 m to F1. The self-potential data were measured with a sampling rate of 1 Hz. Here, we propose a 1-D modelling of the streaming potential that approximates the measured self-potential data. These streaming potential gradients ∆V are estimated from the simulated pressure signals and the coupling coefficient.

How to cite: Haaf, N., Guarracino, L., Jougnot, D., and Schill, E.: Electric self-potential monitoring of hydraulic fracturing experiments in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden. , EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-13820, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13820, 2023.