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ISRM Suggested Method for Step-Rate Injection Method for Fracture In-Situ Properties (SIMFIP): Using a 3-Components Borehole Deformation Sensor

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Acknowledgments

The SIMFIP method and probe developments were funded by the ANR “Captage de CO2” through the “HPPP-CO2” project and by the ADEME through the “mHPP” project. The contribution by LBNL authors in developing this report was funded by the US Department of Energy under contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231. The authors thank the SITES S.A.S engineers Hervé Caron, Cédric Micollier, Regis Blin, Nicolas Bossard, Jérémie Durand and the Petrometalic S.A. engineers, who are employed by the two companies that develop and operate the probe instrument which allows the in situ pressure/displacement measurements.

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  1. CNRS, IRD, CEREGE UMR6635, Aix-Marseille Université, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331, Marseille, France

    Yves Guglielmi

  2. Geoazur, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Côte d’Azur Observatory, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560, Sophia-Antipolis, France

    Frederic Cappa

  3. SITES S.A.S., Espace Européen, 4C Allée Claude Debussy, 69130, Ecully, France

    Hervé Lançon

  4. PETROMETALIC, 11 Rue des Ecluses de Selles, BP287, 59405, Cambrai cedex, France

    Jean Bernard Janowczyk

  5. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Jonny Rutqvist, C. F. Tsang & J. S. Y. Wang

  6. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 75236, Uppsala, Sweden

    C. F. Tsang

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Guglielmi, Y., Cappa, F., Lançon, H. et al. ISRM Suggested Method for Step-Rate Injection Method for Fracture In-Situ Properties (SIMFIP): Using a 3-Components Borehole Deformation Sensor. Rock Mech Rock Eng 47, 303–311 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-013-0517-1

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