Publications by Barnaby Padraig Fryer

Alteration's Control on Frictional Behavior and the Depth of the Ductile Shear Zone in Geothermal Reservoirs in Volcanic Arcs

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, Florian Till Jermann, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer

The majority of geothermal energy is produced in tectonically active volcanic-arc regions due to their high geothermal gradients. Reservoirs in these settings are often stratified with smectite/kaolinite-, illite-, and chlorite-rich zones, in order of incr ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2025

Water weakening and the compressive brittle strength of carbonates: Influence of fracture toughness and static friction

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, Corentin Jean-Marie Rémi Noël

Water is ubiquitous within the pore space of rocks and has been shown to affect their physical and mechanical behaviour. Indeed, water can act on the rock strength via mechanical (i.e., reducing the effective stresses) or chemical effects (e.g., mineral di ...

2024

Single-Well Pore Pressure Preconditioning for Enhanced Geothermal System Stimulation

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, Mathias Alexandre David Lebihain

The stress state is an important parameter in terms of both earthquake nucleation and rupture. Here, a new stimulation technique is proposed for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGSs), which have previously been burdened with a number of high-profile incidence ...

2023

The influence of roughness on experimental fault mechanical behaviour and associated microseismicity

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Carolina Giorgetti, Seyyedmaalek Momeni

Fault surfaces are rough at all scales, this significantly affecting fault-slip behaviour. However, roughness is only occasionally considered experimentally and then often in experiments imposing a low slip velocity, corresponding to the initiation stage o ...

2022

Stress management in the context of induced seismicity in subsurface reservoirs

Barnaby Padraig Fryer

The stress state of the subsurface has been shown to have an influence on a number of key processes. For example, the criticality of the stress state indicates how large stress changes need to be before a fault begins to slip, the mean effective stress con ...

EPFL2020

Compaction-induced permeability loss's effect on induced seismicity during reservoir depletion

Lyesse Laloui, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, Gunter Siddiqi

2019

Reservoir stimulation’s effect on depletion-induced seismicity

Lyesse Laloui, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, Gunter Siddiqi

Depletion-induced seismicity can pose a problem in some fluid-producing subsurface reservoirs, in some cases requiring production rate control in order to limit the seismicity. This study investigates the use of reservoir stimulation to reduce the depletio ...

2018