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Fine-Tuning Water Injection in Diatomite

Technical Paper

This paper details how fine-tuning water injection in California diatomite fields can minimize well casing damage and prevent surface expressions using millimeter-precision InSAR measurements of induced subsidence and uplift.

 

  • Discover how millimeter-precision measurements of subsidence and uplift continuously identify where to mitigate water injection issues across your entire field.

  • Learn how slowing subsidence rates serves as a strong proxy for injection efficiency, guiding reservoir engineers on which injectors need higher rates.

  • Understand how identifying a distinctly circular uplift pattern in InSAR measurements can stop sub-surface leaks and prevent catastrophic surface events.

  • See the proven results: how a continuous feedback loop helped one customer all but stop subsidence-related well casing damage and prevent three surface events.

  • Gain insight into how a massive, 300m radius "blister" was successfully averted within hours by using dynamic InSAR data to shut in the source well.