A Validated Digital Rock Workflow to Accurately Predict Apparent Permeability in Tight Rocks

Juan F. Bautista, Luke Fidler, Dave Freed, Bernd Crouse, Gana Balasubramanian, Hudong Cheng, Raoyang Zhang, Chaitrali Ghodke

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... permeability, we use a lattice Boltzmann solver that accounts for high Knudsen number effects and validate the results against experimental data...

Abstract: Quantifying Variability of Reservoir Properties from a Wolfcamp Formation Core

Joel D. Walls, Anyela Morcote

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

..., connected porosity, and porosity associated with organic matter (PA_OM). Also permeability is calculated using a Lattice-Boltzmann method. The Wolfcamp...

Abstract: Macroporosity Related to Bioturbation in the Karst Carbonate Biscayne Aquifer, Southeastern Florida: Stratiform “Super-K” Zones, by K. J. Cunningham, M. C. Sukop, H. A. Curran, R. A. Renken, and J. F. Dixon; #90090 (2009).

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Abstract: Pore Network Modeling: A Route to Improved Reservoir Quality Assessment in Arabian Reservoirs, by Ian Billing, Clemens P. van Dijk, and Mustafa Touati; #90105 (2010)

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Abstract: Multi-Scale Imaging Process for Computations of Porosity and Permeability from Carbonate Rocks, by Abraham S. Grader, Amos Nur, Chuck Baldwin, and Elizabeth Diaz; #90105 (2010)

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Abstract: Stratiform Flow in Aquifers: Implications of Thalassinidean-Generated Ichnofabrics in Lower Cretaceous to Pleistocene Carbonates, by Cunningham, Kevin J.; #90163 (2013)

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Abstract: Ichnogenic Megaporosity and Permeability in Carbonate Aquifers and Reservoirs: Definitions and Examples, by Curran, H. Allen; Cunningham, Kevin J.; #90163 (2013)

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Completely-Cemented Natural Fractures in Mudrocks: Flow Barrier or Highway?

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The Effect on Permeability of Step-Wise Removal of Organic Material Using Digital Rock Methods

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Abstract: Characterization of carbonate elastic and flow properties: from imaging to simulations and lab measurements; #90254 (2016)

Titly Farhana Faisal, Amina Islam, Ahmed Awedalkarim, Sylvie Chevalier, Mohamed Soufiane Jouini, Mustapha Jouiad, Mohamed Sassi

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...) which is based on the Lattice Boltzmann method. The problem is set up to simulate steadystate, isothermal, single phase flow of liquid water...

Abstract: Validation of the Digital Rock Models with Capillary Pressure Data in Late Carboniferous Sandstones; #91204 (2023)

Hussain Alhilal, Ivan Deshenenkov, Aqeel Furaish

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... the immiscible multiphase Lattice-Boltzmann model with segmented 3D volumes. Uniform wetting conditions for the primary drainage were assumed...

Characterization of deep volcanic reservoirs using TFEM, well and seismic data in the LH area

Xiaodong Suo, Weibin Dong, Yuezheng Li, Yanling Shi, Zhanjun Yang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... is the Boltzmann constant, which can be set to 1 in the TFEM inversion process; T represents the temperature, and the initial temperature is set to 100...

Numerical Investigation of Dynamic and Static Properties of Reservoir Rocks

Mohsen Abdolghafurian, Bahman Joodi, Stefan Iglauer, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... particle size (mm) Value 0.2 keep the Rmax/Rmin value constant. Full sensitivity analyses were summarised by Joodi (2018). It was shown that while...

PANDAS: High Performance Geocomputing Software and its Potential Application in Deep Mining

Huilin Xing, Jinfang Gao, Yan Liu

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... finite element and/or Lattice Boltzmann method (FEM/LBM) based software has been developed and successfully applied for simulating the highly coupled...

Low-Salinity Carbonated Water Injection in Sandstone Reservoirs: Interplay between Oil Recovery Improvement, Salinity and Fines Migration

Ehsan Yazdani Sadati, Arman Siahvashi, Suzanne Hurter

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... the relative permittivity of brine and free space permittivity, respectively, kB is Boltzmann constant, T represents temperature, NA indicates Avogadro’s number...

Seismic inversion with dictionary learning using unsupervised machine learning

Debajeet Barman, Mrinal K. Sen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... hidden features into the input seismic data, b = D(h). x where, M is a constant, r(t) is reflectivity, w(t) is source wavelet and strace (t) is seismic...

Flow Units in Shale Condensate Reservoirs

Roberto Aguilera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...𝜋𝜋𝛿𝛿 2 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 (2) where Kn is Knudsen number, λ is the gas mean-free-path in nm, d is the pore diameter in nm, kB is Boltzmann constant, equal...

Quantifying the Influence of Rock Fabric, Composition, and Electrical Double Layer on the Broadband Dielectric Dispersion of Organic-rich Mudrocks

Artur Posenato Garcia, Zoya Heidari

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...), is given by 0  ezr 2 , 2MkBT  ST (19) where e is the elementary charge (1.60×10-19 C), kB is the Boltzmann constant (1.38×10-23 m2kgs-2K-1...

Enhanced Sediment Scavenging Due to Double-Diffusive Convection

Jeffrey D. Parsons , Macelo H. Garcia

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... In this case, Green (1987) describes the diffusivity of sediment by sed = [koTa]/[3wD] (1) where ko is the Boltzmann constant, Ta is the temperature (in K...

Investigation of Adsorption Effects on Nanopores in Shale Gas Reservoir by Simplified Local-Density Model

Yu Pang, M. Y. Soliman, Jie Sheng

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... ( z )   fs ( L  z ) kT ) 6 Where k is Boltzmann’s constant. (k=1.38×10-23 J/K) As mentioned above, Peng-Robinson equation of state (PR-EOS...

Upscaled Gas and Water Relative Permeability from Pore and Core Scale Experimental Data Over Hydraulic Fracturing, Flowback and Online Production

Dongying Wang, Jun Yao, Zhangxin Chen, Wenhui Song, Hai Sun, Mingyu Cai, Bin Yuan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... permeability of the OM and clay pore systems by shan-chen-type Lattice Boltzmann simulations based on reconstructed 3D nanoscale shale pore spaces. Song...

Apparent Permeability for Gas Flow in Shale Reservoirs Coupling Effects of Gas Diffusion and Desorption

Keliu Wu, Xiangfang Li, Chenchen Wang, Wei Yu, Zhangxing Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.../s. In addition, gas molecule free path can be calculated below (Javadpour, et al., 2007): k BT λ= 2 2πδ M p where kB is the Boltzmann constant...

Spatial variation of microstructure and petrophysical properties along deformation bands in reservoir sandstones

Anita Torabi, Haakon Fossen

AAPG Bulletin

... Publication 299, p. 3556.Keehm, Y., T. Mukerji, and A. Nur, 2004, Permeability prediction from thin sections: 3-D reconstruction and Lattice-Boltzmann flow...

Evaluation of the compositional changes during flooding of reactive fluids using scanning electron microscopy, nano-secondary ion mass spectrometry, x-ray diffraction, and whole-rock geochemistry

Udo Zimmermann, Merete Vadla Madland, Anders Nermoen, Tania Hildebrand-Habel, Silvana A. R. Bertolino, Aksel Hiorth, Reidar I. Korsnes, Jean-Nicolas Audinot, and Patrick Grysan

AAPG Bulletin

.... Hiorth, A., E. Jettestuen, L. M. Cathles, and M. V. Madland, 2013, Precipitation, dissolution, and ion exchange processes coupled with a lattice Boltzmann...

Cement Placement in Severe Doglegs and Its Impact on Well Integrity: A Numerical Assessment

Hao Yu, Arash Dahi Taleghani, Zhanghua Lian

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...tially variable eccentricity instead of the constant form, the eccentricity ratio is actually varying along the measured depth as follows URTeC 2902...