Analysis of formation pressure test results in the Mount Elbert methane hydrate reservoir through numerical simulation     

Masanori Kurihara  Akihiko SatoKunihiro Funatsu  Hisanao OuchiYoshihiro Masuda  Hideo NaritaTimothy S. Collett 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2011,28(2):502-516

Targeting the methane hydrate (MH) bearing units C and D at the Mount Elbert prospect on the Alaska North Slope, four MDT (Modular Dynamic Formation Tester) tests were conducted in February 2007. The C2 MDT test was selected for history matching simulation in the MH Simulator Code Comparison Study. Through history matching simulation, the physical and chemical properties of the unit C were adjusted, which suggested the most likely reservoir properties of this unit. Based on these properties thus tuned, the numerical models replicating “Mount Elbert C2 zone like reservoir”, “PBU L-Pad like reservoir” and “PBU L-Pad down dip like reservoir” were constructed. The long term production performances of wells in these reservoirs were then forecasted assuming the MH dissociation and production by the methods of depressurization, combination of depressurization and wellbore heating, and hot water huff and puff. The predicted cumulative gas production ranges from 2.16 × 10⁶ m³/well to 8.22 × 10⁸ m³/well depending mainly on the initial temperature of the reservoir and on the production method.This paper describes the details of modeling and history matching simulation. This paper also presents the results of the examinations on the effects of reservoir properties on MH dissociation and production performances under the application of the depressurization and thermal methods.  相似文献   

地球物理测井在天然气水合物勘探中的应用   总被引：12，自引：0，他引：12  

高兴军  于兴河  李胜利  段鸿彦 《地球科学进展》2003,18(2):305-311

天然气水合物是一种潜在的巨大能源。美国、日本、俄罗斯等发达国家在该领域已经进行了大量的研究工作，试图从各个角度去探测天然气水合物的存在并评价其蕴藏量。地球物理测井在天然气水合物探测与储量评价领域发挥了重要作用并且随着以勘探天然气水合物为目的的钻井的增多，日益受到重视。基于国内在该领域研究较少的现状，综述了国外地球物理测井技术在天然气水合物勘探中的应用，详细介绍了常规测井方法定性识别和定量评价天然气水合物储层的孔隙度、饱和度方法和技术，基于含天然气水合物储层的碳氧比能谱测井解释模型以及成像测井在含天然气水合物井段的测井响应。并在此基础上分析了我国在该领域的研究思路。  相似文献   

塔西南麦盖提斜坡奥陶系储层特征及测井评价     

刘军  崔海峰  田雷  张年春  刘本明 《新疆地质》2013,(3)

储层问题是麦盖提斜坡奥陶系油气勘探的关键问题。以录井、岩心和薄片资料为基础,分析奥陶系储层空间类型、储层物性特征;利用测井资料,用定性和定量两种方法分析储层类型,明确储层分布规律。分析认为,斜坡东段风化壳断裂发育带和内幕白云岩分布区是奥陶系储层发育有利区。  相似文献   

岩溶塌陷机理定量研究的初步思考   总被引：11，自引：11，他引：0  

金晓文  陈植华  曾斌  张文慧  史婷婷 《中国岩溶》2013,32(4):437-446

岩溶塌陷作为世界上岩溶地区最为普遍的地质灾害和环境地质问题之一,对人类社会发展、工程建设等方面产生了严重的危害。二十世纪七十年代以来,国内外学者对岩溶塌陷的发育规律、分布特征、致塌原因、成因机理、勘测技术、防治措施、监测预报和数值模拟等方面做了大量的工作,取得了丰富的研究成果,由于岩溶塌陷发生和发展在地表以下而不易察觉和探测,其具有突发性、隐蔽性、多因素性、不确定性和模糊性等特点,目前统一的、系统的、权威的岩溶塌陷的成因机理及定量预测等理论和认识仍在逐步完善中。本文根据岩溶塌陷机理研究现状及发展趋势,从复杂性科学角度探讨了岩溶塌陷机理定量研究中的基本科学问题,对岩溶塌陷机理定量研究进行了初步思考,在参考借鉴多个相关领域技术方法的基础上,梳理了定量研究的内容,探讨了定量研究的方法、技术思路,以期在一定程度上丰富岩溶塌陷机理定量研究理论体系,推动岩溶塌陷机理定量研究进程。  相似文献   

基于复杂性测度的中国洪灾受灾面积变化研究   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

尹义星  许有鹏  陈莹 《地理科学》2008,28(2):241-246

采用复杂性测度方法来进行中国洪涝灾害受灾面积变化的研究。结果表明:(1) 20世纪80、90年代中国洪灾受灾面积及其复杂度均持续上升,说明洪灾剧烈,而且复杂多变、不确定性增加;进入21世纪,两者趋缓或下降,即中国洪涝灾害有所缓解;(2) 从分省区的结果来看,洪灾受灾面积的未来趋势具有区域特征,主要可划分为两个加剧的区域和两个减缓的区域;全国各省市区依据受灾面积趋势可划分为4个等级,在此基础上给出中国的未来洪灾受灾面积趋势图。  相似文献   

逆散射级数法预测层间多次波的算法改进及其策略   总被引：12，自引：5，他引：7       下载免费PDF全文

金德刚  常旭  刘伊克 《地球物理学报》2008,51(4):1209-1217

波动方程预测层间多次波有两类算法.一是由Berkhout和Verschuur（1998）提出的基于CFP（共聚焦点）延拓的算法,另一是由Weglein（1997）等人提出的基于逆散射级数法的算法.ISS（逆散射级数）算法具有不依赖速度模型的优点,但是其计算成本很高.本文改进了Weglein提出的1-D预测公式,提高了计算效率.从理论方面,改进算法的计算速度提高了大约12倍.实际结果表明其计算速度更快,提高近80倍左右,主要原因在于后者的空间复杂度小.此外,由于时间-空间域比伪深度-波数域的层间多次波预测有更多的优点,本文推导了1.5-D时间-空间域ISS层间多次波预测算法,该算法有计算速度快、预测噪音小、适应观测系统能力强和不依赖地震子波等优点.在实际应用中,计算成本高是ISS预测层间多次波算法的主要障碍.因此,本文还讨论了预测层间多次波的策略.结合本文提出的改进算法和应用策略,能够在实际地震资料处理中较好地应用ISS预测层间多次波.  相似文献   

Multi‐process Late Quaternary landscape evolution modelling reveals lags in climate response over small spatial scales     

A. J. A. M. Temme  A. Veldkamp 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2009,34(4):573-589

Landscapes evolve in complex, non‐linear ways over Quaternary timespans. Integrated geomorphological field studies usually yield plausible hypotheses about timing and impact of process activity. Landscape Evolution Models (LEMs) have the potential to test and falsify these landscape evolution hypotheses. Despite this potential, LEMs have mainly been used with hypothetical data and rarely to simulate the evolution of an actual landscape. In this paper, we use a LEM (LAPSUS: LandscApe ProcesS modelling at mUlti dimensions and scaleS) to explore if it is possible to test and falsify conclusions of an earlier field study on 50 ka landscape evolution in Okhombe Valley, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. In this LEM, five landscape processes interact without supervision: water driven erosion and deposition, creep, solifluction, biological weathering and frost weathering. Calibration matched model results to three types of qualitative fieldwork observations: individual process activity over time, relative process activity over time and net landscape changes over time. Results demonstrate that landscape evolution of the Okhombe valley can be plausibly simulated. A particularly interesting and persistent feature of model results are erosional and depositional phases that lag climatic drivers both by decades, and by several ka within a few hundred meters. The longer lag has not been reported for this spatial scale before and may be an effect of slow landscape‐soil‐vegetation feedbacks. The combined modelling and fieldwork results allow a more complete understanding of these responses to climate change and can fill in hiatuses in the stratigraphical record. Suggestions are made for methodological adaptations for future LEM studies. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

哈萨克斯坦卡帕尔-阿拉善4号井氦气（He）含量映震特征   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

崔勇  杨晓芳  陈玲  鲁娜  魏若萍  李新勇 《内陆地震》2008,22(3):243-251

介绍了哈萨克斯坦卡帕尔-阿拉善4号井的水文地球化学环境,分析其17年氦气（He）含量变化映震特征,氦气（He）变化的地震前兆异常表现为：上升（或下降）幅度、速率变化超出正常范围,具有较好的重复性,测值遵循的是,背景值－趋势性上升（或突升）,趋势性下降（或突降）－恢复至背景值的变化过程。将该井氦气（He）观测数据经过滤波、差分处理后,以3倍均方差作为异常识别标准,结果表明：氦气（He）对监测点周围300km范围5级地震、400km范围6级地震的对映率分别为100％、66．7％,是较好的地震前兆手段之一。  相似文献   

小波变换在关中井水位资料分析中的应用   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

邢西淳  毛娟  邵辉成  张世民 《高原地震》2009,21(4):1-8

利用小波变换和多尺度分析原理,对周至井、三原井7年的水位日均值序列进行了分析,将周至井、三原井水位资料中的不同周期成分进行了有效分离,小波变换分解结果能够更直观和显著地反映地震活动,特别是印尼8．7级、汶川8．0级特大地震及其中强余震异常显示明显。对甘东南地区的5级以上地震也有较明显的前兆反映,表明小渡分析在处理和分析水位资料方面是一种有效的方法。  相似文献   

Ground motions observed during the 15 August 2007 Pisco, Peru, earthquake     

Hernando Tavera  Isabel Bernal  Fleur O. Strasser  Maria C. Arango-Gaviria  John E. Alarcón  Julian J. Bommer 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2009,7(1):71-111

A M_w 7.9 earthquake event occurred on 15 August 2007 off the coast of central Peru, 60 km west of the city of Pisco. This event is associated with subduction processes at the interface of the Nazca and South American plates, and was characterised by a complex source mechanism involving rupture on two main asperities, with unilateral rupture propagation to the southeast. The rupture process is clearly reflected in the ground motions recorded during this event, which include two separate episodes of strong shaking. The event triggered 18 accelerographic stations; the recordings are examined in terms of their characteristics and compared to the predictions of ground-motion prediction equations for subduction environments, using the maximum-likelihood-based method of Scherbaum et al. (Bull Seismol Soc Am 94(6):2164–2185, 2004). Additionally, macroseismic observations and damage patterns are examined and discussed in the light of local construction practices, drawing on field observations gathered during the post-earthquake reconnaissance missions.  相似文献