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Data Publication

Hazard and Risk Assessment tool for the Groningen Gas Field, the Netherlands [updated]

Stephen J. Bourne | Steve J. Oates

Utrecht University

(2023)

Descriptions

In October 2012, NAM (Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV) commenced with the study and data acquisition research program for induced seismicity in the Groningen gas field, North Netherlands. One of the aims of this program was to prepare a probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment (HRA) for the full area affected by the earthquakes induced by gas production from the Groningen gas field. To this end, a code was developed in C software, to calculate hazard and risk metrics. The tool uses the Monte Carlo approach, which was thought to be the most flexible approach allowing in the future potentially very complex computations to be incorporated in the tool and a large range of potential risk metrics to be evaluated. A drawback of the Monte Carlo approach is the high required computing time and large memory requirement. For optimal performance, the authors suggest to run the HRA-code on a mainframe computer. Post-processing suites are implemented and provided in Python. NAM is now making these codes openly available through the Dutch research infrastructure EPOS-NL. The model version that is made available is the model used by NAM for their last hazard and risk assessment in March 2020, with an update of the calibration of the seismicity model performed early 2023. Comprehensive documentation on model use is also provided. The present code was co-developed by a large team of programmers at Alten Netherlands. Corresponding author: Jan van Elk (jan.van-elk@shell.com). There is an updated version of this data package been published. You can find it here; https://doi.org/10.24416/UU01-Z58L9K

Keywords

Originally assigned keywords

Natural Sciences - Earth and related environmental sciences (1.5)

Groningen gas field

gas field

antropogenic setting

induced seismicity

earthquake

HRA

SHRA

Hazard and Risk Assessment

Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment

Monte Carlo

Python

EPOS-NL

EPOS Multi-Scale Laboratories

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords

gas field

present-day

induced seismicity

MSL enriched keywords

subsurface energy production

hydrocarbon energy production

gas field

present-day

induced seismicity

Source

https://public.yoda.uu.nl/geo/UU01/2EBEXT.html

Source publisher

Utrecht University

DOI

10.24416/uu01-2ebext

Creators

Stephen J. Bourne

Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij

Author identifier (Scopus):

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005562282

Steve J. Oates

Royal Dutch Shell

Author identifier (Scopus):

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=12545923900

Contributors

van Elk, Jan

Supervisor

Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij

Author identifier (Scopus):

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603190738

References

https://doi.org/10.1785/0120140302

Citation

Bourne, S. J., & Oates, S. J. (2023). Hazard and Risk Assessment tool for the Groningen Gas Field, the Netherlands [updated] (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.24416/UU01-2EBEXT

Dates

Updated:

2024-08-27T13:53:02

Collected:

2012-01-10/2023-01-01

Language

Rights

Closed

Datacite version

1.0

Geo location(s)

Groningen gas field, the Netherlands