Natural hydraulic cracking: numerical model and sensitivity study   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Xiaorong Luo 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2002,201(2):431-446

Natural hydrofracturing caused by overpressure plays an important role in geopressure evolution and hydrocarbon migration in petroliferous basins. Its mechanism is quite well understood in the case of artificial hydraulic fracturing triggered by high-pressure fluid injection in a well. This is not so for natural hydraulic fracturing which is assumed to initiate as micro-cracks with large influence on the permeability of the medium. The mechanism of natural hydraulic cracking, triggered by increasing pore pressure during geological periods, is studied using a fracturing model coupled to the physical processes occurring during basin evolution. In this model, the hydraulic cracking threshold is assumed to lie between the classical failure limit and the beginning of dilatancy. Fluid pressure evolution is calculated iteratively in order to allow dynamic adjustment of permeability so that the fracturing limit is always preserved. The increase of permeability is interpreted on the basis of equivalent fractures. It is found that fracturing is very efficient to keep a stress level at the rock’s hydraulic cracking limit: a fracture permeability one order of magnitude larger than the intrinsic permeability of the rock would be enough. Observations reported from actual basins and model results strongly suggest that natural hydraulic cracking occurs continuously to keep the pressure at the fracturing limit under relaxed stress conditions.  相似文献   

焉耆盆地侏罗系低渗透储层敏感性评价   总被引：3，自引：3，他引：3  

李永林  杨道庆  田纳新  杨春红  马玉春  李峰 《矿物岩石》2003,23(1):77-80

焉耆盆地侏罗系具近物源沉积特点，储层成分成熟度和结构成熟度均较低，粘土矿物含量高，物性较差，属低渗透储层。“五敏”实验结果表明，储层均表现为强水敏特征，物性相对较好的储层还表现出强盐敏和中等偏弱速敏、碱敏等敏感性特征，盐酸对储层具有一定程度的改善，并进一步探讨钻探施工过程中油层保护的措施及应用效果。  相似文献   

陕北新庄地区延长组长2油层组储层特征   总被引：10，自引：2，他引：10  

孙冬胜  李文山  罗纪红  赵靖舟 《西北地质》2003,36(1):59-61

一般河道砂体的正粒序性决定了其下部物性条件优于上部，但新庄地区长2油层组河道砂体的物性特征截然相反，而是中上部物性条件好，下部物性条件普遍差。在储层岩石学特征、孔隙类型等研究的基础上，对此进行了探讨，认为造成其特殊性的原因主要是由于压实、胶结、次生加大等作用。指出河道边滩砂体中上部储层为该区的主力储层。  相似文献   

中国油气储层地质研究面临的挑战和发展方向   总被引：36，自引：6，他引：36  

罗平  裘怿楠  贾爱林  王雪松 《沉积学报》2003,21(1):142-147

论述了我国采取“稳定东部 ,发展西部”的油气战略后 ,油气地质所面临的形势 ,以及油气工业的发展对储层地质提出四个领域的挑战 :深部储层、挤压盆地储层、低渗透储层和碳酸盐岩储层 ;这些都是石油勘探开发中久攻不克的难题。根据我国陆上东西部油气区的勘探开发实际和近年的储层研究实践 ,文章系统多视角地分析了这四个难题 ,并提出了相应客观的研究思路和研究方向。  相似文献   

煤层气富集高产的主控因素   总被引：17，自引：1，他引：17  

高波  马玉贞  陶明信  马根喜 《沉积学报》2003,21(2):345-349

对煤岩的生储气能力、煤储层渗透率、煤层气保存条件等影响煤层气高产富集的主控因素进行了分析。煤岩组分和煤变质程度是影响煤层生储气能力的主控因素。煤层的储气能力与温度、压力、灰分及水分含量等亦有关。煤层的渗透率取决于煤层本身的裂隙系统,而裂隙的发育程度又与煤变质程度及构造活动的强弱相关。煤层气的保存则取决于顶底板的封盖能力、构造活动、水动力环境等条件。煤层气成藏条件是煤层气基础地质研究中的核心问题,应加强研究。  相似文献   

Permeability Estimation with the Augmented Lagrangian Method for a Nonlinear Diffusion Equation     

Trygve K. Nilssen  Trond Mannseth  Xue-Cheng Tai 《Computational Geosciences》2003,7(1):27-47

We consider numerical identification of the piecewise constant permeability function in a nonlinear parabolic equation, with the augmented Lagrangian method. By studying this problem, we aim at also gaining some insight into the potential ability of the augmented Lagrangian method to handle permeability estimation within the full two-phase porous-media flow setting. The identification is formulated as a constrained minimization problem. The parameter estimation problem is reduced to a coupled nonlinear algebraic system, which can be solved efficiently with the conjugate gradient method. The methodology is developed and numerical experiments with the proposed method are presented.  相似文献   

Inferring the relative measure of principal stress components     

Peiliang Xu  Seiichi Shimada 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,130(1):F1-F4

The phase velocity and the attenuation coefficient of compressional seismic waves, propagating in poroelastic, fluid-saturated, laminated sediments, are computed analytically from first principles. The wavefield is found to be strongly affected by the medium heterogeneity. Impedance fluctuations lead to poroelastic scattering; variations of the layer compressibilities cause inter-layer flow (a 1-D macroscopic local flow). These effects result in significant attenuation and dispersion of the seismic wavefield, even in the surface seismic frequency range, 10–100 Hz. The various attenuation mechanisms are found to be approximately additive, dominated by inter-layer flow at very low frequencies. Elastic scattering is important over a broad frequency range from seismic to sonic frequencies. Biot's global flow (the relative displacement of solid frame and fluid) contributes mainly in the range of ultrasonic frequencies. From the seismic frequency range up to ultrasonic frequencies, attenuation due to heterogeneity is strongly enhanced compared to homogeneous Biot models. Simple analytical expressions for the P -wave phase velocity and attenuation coefficient are presented as functions of frequency and of statistical medium parameters (correlation lengths, variances). These results automatically include different asymptotic approximations, such as poroelastic Backus averaging in the quasi-static and the no-flow limits, geometrical optics, and intermediate frequency ranges.  相似文献   

Hot fluid migration in compressible saturated porous media     

Maurizio Bonafede  Mariangela Mazzanti 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,128(2):383-398

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Application of an optimum design technique for determining the coefficient of consolidation by using piezocone test data   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Y.S. Kim  S.R. Lee  Y.T. Kim 《Computers and Geotechnics》1997,21(4):885-293

For normally consolidated clay, several researchers have developed a number of theoretical time factors to determine the coefficient of consolidation from piezocone test results. However, depending on assumptions and analytical techniques, it could vary considerably, even for a specific degree of consolidation. In this paper a method is proposed to determine a consistent coefficient of consolidation by applying the concept of an optimum design technique over all ranges of the degree of consolidation. Initial excess pore pressure distribution is assumed to be capable of being obtained by the successive spherical cavity expansion theory. The dissipation of pore pressure is simulated by means of a two-dimensional linear-uncoupled axi-symmetric consolidation analysis. The minimization of differences between measured and predicted excess pore pressure was carried out by the BFGS unconstrained optimum design algorithm with a one-dimensional golden section search technique. By analyzing numerical examples and in-situ test results, it was found that the adopted optimum design technique gives consistent and convergent results.  相似文献   

Flexible spectral methods for the generation of random fields with power-law semivariograms     

Johannes Bruining  Diederik van Batenburg  Larry W. Lake  An Ping Yang 《Mathematical Geology》1997,29(6):823-848

Random field generators serve as a tool to model heterogeneous media for applications in hydrocarbon recovery and groundwater flow. Random fields with a power-law variogram structure, also termed fractional Brownian motion (fBm) fields, are of interest to study scale dependent heterogeneity effects on one-phase and two-phase flow. We show that such fields generated by the spectral method and the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) have an incorrect variogram structure and variance. To illustrate this we derive the prefactor of the fBm spectral density function, which is required to generate the fBm fields. We propose a new method to generate fBm fields that introduces weighting functions into the spectral method. It leads to a flexible and efficient algorithm. The flexibility permits an optimal choice of summation points (that is points in frequency space at which the weighting function is calculated) specific for the autocovariance structure of the field. As an illustration of the method, comparisons between estimated and expected statistics of fields with an exponential variogram and of fBm fields are presented. For power-law semivariograms, the proposed spectral method with a cylindrical distribution of the summation points gives optimal results.  相似文献