Publications

Published Journal Articles

• Verdon, JP & Stork, AL 2016. Carbon capture and storage, geomechanics and induced seismic activity. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, in press, doi:10.1016/j.jrmge.2016.06.004.

• Verdon, JP, Kendall, J-M, Horleston, AC & Stork, AL 2016. Subsurface fluid injection and induced seismicity in southeast Saskatchewan, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 54, 429-440, doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.04.007.

• Birnie, C, Angus, D, Chambers, K & Stork, AL 2016. Analysis and models of pre-injection surface seismic array noise recorded at the Aquistore carbon storage site, Geophysical Journal International, 206, 1246-1260, doi:10.1093/gji/ggw203.

• Verdon, JP, Stork, AL, Bissell, RC, Bond, CE & Werner, MJ 2015. Simulation of seismic events induced by CO2 injection at In Salah, Algeria, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 426, pp. 118-129, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.029

• Stork, AL, Verdon, JP & Kendall, JM 2015. The microseismic response at the In Salah Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) site, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, vol 32., pp. 159-171, doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2014.11.014.

• Stork, AL, Verdon, JP & Kendall, JM, 2014. Assessing the effect of velocity model accuracy on microseismic interpretation at the In Salah carbon capture and storage site, Energy Procedia, vol. 63, pp. 4385–4393, doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.473.

• Corbeau, J, Rolandone, F, Leroy, S, Al-Lazki, A, Stork, AL, Keir, D, Stuart, G, Hammond, J, Doubre, C, Vergne, J, Ahmed, A & Khanbari, K, 2014. Uppermost mantle velocity from Pn tomography in the Gulf of Aden, Geosphere, vol 10, doi:10.1130/GES01052.1.

• Stork, AL, Verdon, JP & Kendall, J-M, 2014. The robustness of seismic moment and magnitudes estimated using spectral analysis. Geophysical Prospecting, vol 62, pp. 862-878, doi:10.1111/1365-2478.12134.

• Verdon, JP, Kendall, J, Stork, AL, Chadwick, RA, White, DJ & Bissell, RC, 2013. Comparison of geomechanical deformation induced by megatonne-scale CO2 storage at Sleipner, Weyburn, and In Salah. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 110, pp. E2762-E2771, doi:10.1073/pnas.1302156110.

• Stork, AL, Stuart, GW, Henderson, CM, Keir, D & Hammond, JOS, 2013. Uppermost mantle (Pn) velocity model for the Afar region, Ethiopia: an insight into rifting processes. Geophys J Int, vol 193, pp. 321-328, doi:10.1093/gji/ggs106.

• Stork, AL, Selby, ND, Heyburn, R & Searle, MP, 2008. Accurate relative earthquake hypocenters reveal structure of the Burma subduction zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 98, 6, p. 2815-2827, doi:10.1785/0120080088.

• Wright, TJ, Ebinger, C, Biggs, J, Ayele, A, Yirgu, G, Keir, D & Stork, A, 2006. Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode, Nature, 442, 7100, p. 291-294, doi:10.1038/nature04978.

• Stork, AL & Ito, H, 2004. Source parameter scaling for small earthquakes observed at the western Nagano 800-m-deep borehole, Central Japan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 94, 5, p. 1781-1794, doi:10.1785/012002214.

• Prejean, S, Stork, AL, Ellsworth, W, Hill, D & Julian, B, 2003. High precision earthquake locations reveal seismogenic structure beneath Mammoth Mountain, California, Geophys. Res. Lett. 30, p. 2247, doi:10.1029/2003GL018334.

Other Publications

• Stork, AL, 2007. Optimisation and application of earthquake location methods. DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford, UK.

Extended Abstracts

• Verdon, JP, Stork, AL and Kendall, JM 2016. Geomechanical Modelling, Microseismic Monitoring and CO2 Storage. EAGE/SPE Workshop on Integrated Geomechanics in Exploration and Production, doi:10.3997/2214-4609.201602362

• Birnie, C, Angus, D, Chambers, K & Stork, AL 2016. Effect of noise on microseismic event detection and imaging procedures using ICOVA statistical noise modeling method. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016: pp. 2622-2626, doi:10.1190/segam2016-13858910.1.

• Birnie C, Stork A, Roach L, Angus D, & Rost, S, 2015. Spatial and Temporal Properties of Noise from the Aquistore CCS Pilot Permanent Surface Array. 3rd EAGE Sustainable Earth Sciences Conference, Celle.

• Verdon JP, Stork AL, Bissell RC, Bond CE & Werner MJ, 2015. Geomechanical Simulation of Microseismic Events Induced by CO2 Injection at In Salah, Algeria. 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, Madrid, Spain. doi:10.3997/2214-4609.201413265

• Verdon JP, Werner MJ, Stork AL & Kendall J-M, 2015. Real Time Forecasting of Maximum Expected Induced Seismicity. 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition - Workshops, Madrid, Spain. doi:10.3997/2214-4609.201413527

• Verdon, JP, Stork, AL, Bissell, RC, Bond, CE & Werner, MJ, 2014. Using geomechanical models to simulate induced seismicity: Applications to CO2 storage at In Salah, Algeria: SEG Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts 33, 4559-4563. doi:10.1190/segam2014-0078.1

• Baird AF, Verdon JP, Kendall J-M, Foord G, Stork A & Usher PJ, 2014. Field Estimates of Fracture Compliances using Active and Passive Seismics. 5th EAGE Passive Seismic Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal. doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20142176

• Stork AL, Verdon JP & Kendall, JM, 2013. Study of recorded seismicity at the in Salah (Algeria) carbon capture and storage project, 2nd EAGE Sustainable Earth Sciences (SES) Conference and Exhibition, Pau, France. doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20131605

• Verdon JP, Kendall JM, Stork AL, Chadwick, RA, White, DJ & Bissell, RC, 2013. A comparison of geomechanical effects at three ‘megatonne’ CO2 storage sites - Sleipner, Weyburn and In Salah, 2nd EAGE Sustainable Earth Sciences (SES) Conference and Exhibition, Pau, France. doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20131607

• Stork, AL, Verdon JP & Kendall. J-M, 2013. Microseismic event analysis for the In Salah (Algeria) carbon capture and storage project, 75th EAGE Annual Meeting, London, UK, doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20130823

• Verdon JP, Kendall J-M, Stork AL, Chadwick RA, White DJ & Bissell RC, 2013. A comparison of geomechanical effects at three ‘megatonne’ CO2 storage sites - Sleipner, Weyburn and In Salah, 75th EAGE Annual Meeting, London, UK, doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20130206

• Stork AL, Verdon JP & Kendall JM, 2013. The importance of accurate and consistent microseismic event magnitudes, 4th EAGE Passive Seismic Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands, doi:10.3997/2214-4609.20142361

Invited Talks/Seminars

• Stork AL 2016. Passive seismic monitoring and modelling methods applied to CO2 storage sites, Institute for Geophysical Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

• Stork AL, Verdon JP, Kendall J-M & White DJ 2015. Passive Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Storage Sites, UKCCSRC Geophysical modelling for CO2 storage, monitoring and appraisal meeting, Leeds, UK.

• Stork AL, Kendall J-M, White DJ and Verdon, JP, 2015. Microseismic monitoring at the Aquistore CCS site. UKCCSRC Biannual Meeting, Cranfield, UK.

• Stork, AL 2015. Using microseismic monitoring to optimise operational efficiency and assess risk. Shale World UK, Birmingham.

• Stork, AL, Verdon, JP and Kendall J-M, 2014. Understanding the microseismic response to CO2 injection at CCS sites - examples from In Salah, IEAGHG Monitoring & Modelling Networks Meeting, Morgantown, WV, USA.

• Stork, AL, Stuart, GW, Henderson, CM, Keir, D, Hammond, JOS & Kendall, J-M, 2012. Insights into rifting processes in Afar, Ethiopia, using Pn tomography, NORSAR, Norway.

• Stork, AL, Julian, B & Foulger, GR, 2001. Application of the Waldhauser-Ellsworth relocation algorithm to earthquake sequences in central-eastern California, DPRI, University of Kyoto, Japan.