Flow Dynamics and Pore Scale Physics in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

Najeeb S. Alharthy, Tadesse Weldu Teklu, Sherif Abd El-Gawad, Hossein Kazemi, Ramona Graves

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... properties and flow behavior as a result of the pore proximity. Specifically, it is theorized that the phase behavior, capillary pressure...

Predicting rock strength variability across stratigraphic interfaces in caprock lithologies at depth: Correlation between outcrop and subsurface

Elizabeth S. Petrie, Tamara N. Jeppson, James P. Evans

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... the ability of a caprock to prevent fluid migration over geologic time scales (Bachu, 2008). Diffusion, capillary invasion, and seal bypass through...

Fluid Flow, Pore Pressure, Wettability, and Leakage in Mudstone Cap Rocks

Andrew C. Aplin, Steve R. Larter

AAPG Special Volumes

... properties of mudstones indicates the practical significance of estimating clay fraction directly from geophysical logs. This chapter illustrates how...

Assessing Fault Seal Risk and Fault Seal Retention Capacity In Stacked Clastic Reservoirs (Geology Paper 20)

Arnout J.W. Everts

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...Assessing Fault Seal Risk and Fault Seal Retention Capacity In Stacked Clastic Reservoirs (Geology Paper 20) Arnout J.W. Everts PERTEMUAN PERSATUAN...

Piceance Basin Mesaverde anomalous self-potential response: Identification of capillary seals in a basin-centered gas accumulation

Stephen P. Cumella, William F. Woodruff, and Andre Revil

AAPG Bulletin

... of how the high capillary pressures are reached and low water saturations are achieved in microdarcy permeability sandstones (Figure 2). After gas...

Petrofacies Analysis of Carbonate Rocks: Example From Lower Paleozoic Hunton Group of Oklahoma and Texas

David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Gerald M. Friedman

AAPG Bulletin

... properties (Figure 21 is a typical capillary-pressure curve). Rocks assigned to this subpetrofacies are silicified crinoidal wackestones to grainstones...

Comprehensive Workflow for Lab to Field-Scale Numerical Simulation to Improve Oil Recovery in the Eagle Ford Shale by Selective Testing and Modeling of Surfactants for Wettability Alteration

I Wayan Rakananda Saputra, David S. Schechter

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... application was studied. Sensitivity analysis to different reservoir properties was also done on the field-scale modeling to give an insight on how to apply...

Advancing Carbon Storage in Offshore Louisiana: Evaluation and Modeling Potential of Two Major Depleted Reservoirs in Vermilion_014 Field

Ahmed Eleslambouly, Mursal Zeynalli, Andreas Moncada, Ahmed Fathy, Seda Rouxel

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... secure containment of the stored CO2. The injectivity, high injection pressures, and the reservoir/seal rocks properties present challenges for CO2...

Geoscience workflows for CO2 storage

Steve Moss

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... storage). Capillary seal, defined as the potential for migration through the seal pore structure and mechanical seal the potential for migration...

Investigation of the Dynamic Capillary Pressure During Displacement Process in Fractured Tight Sandstone Reservoirs

Ying Li, Feihang Liu, Haitao Li, Shengnan Chen, Jie Zeng, Jianfeng Zhang, Xiangqing Meng, Shikai Jiang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... capillary pressure, Pa; τ is the dynamic coefficient, Pa·s, also known as capillary damping coefficient. τ depends on medium and fluid properties, degree...

Application of Integrated Core and Multiscale 3-D Image Rock Physics to Characterize Porosity, Permeability, Capillary Pressure, and Two- and Three-Phase Relative Permeability in the Codell Sandstone, Denver Basin, Colorado

Alan P. Byrnes, Shawn Zhang, Lyn Canter, Mark D. Sonnenfeld

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... porosity (φ), absolute permeability (K), capillary pressure (Pc), and water saturation (Sw). Although core analysis provides fundamental properties...

Concepts and strategies to evaluate and optimize the planning for a Carbon Capture and Storage process in stratified carbonate formations

Michael Aikman, A. Martinez, R Jellema

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... pressure was set based upon the formation fracture pressure of the topmost seal. The impact of pressure control was evaluated by allowing the BHP of the top...

How Can We Use Tectonic Reactivation to Control Stress Distribution at Reservoir and Basin Scale? Learning from Paleopiezometry and Analogues

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CO2-Brine Relative Permeability using a Multi-rate Unsteady State Method

Joel D Walls, Jules Reed, Einas Ahmed, Abhijit Mitra

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... the capillary end effects. A common reservoir engineering tool is numerical simulation for understanding plume migration or how oil/gas reservoirs...

Hydrocarbon breaching of a regional aquitard: The Devonian Ireton Formation, Bashaw area, Alberta, Canada

Mark R. Hearn, Hans G. Machel, Benjamin J. Rostron

AAPG Bulletin

... pore throats is greater than the buoyancy forces of the hydrocarbon column below it can, in principle, act as a capillary seal for hydrocarbons (e.g....

Coupling Complex Resistivity, Geomechanical and Acoustic Properties and Permeability in Sandstone and Shale Reservoirs

Daisuke Katsuki, Azra N. Tutuncu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of an experimental investigation through simultaneous measurements of the mechanical properties, complex resistivity, and permeability in seal...

Seals: The Role of Geomechanics

Gary D. Couples

AAPG Special Volumes

... impacts the key physical properties of the rocks, such as those related to fluid flow. Specifically, geomechanics enables us to determine how assemblages...

AAPG/EAGE; - Abstracts, #90251 (2016).

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Low-Permeability Rocks, Capillary Seals, and Pressure Compartment Boundaries in the Cretaceous Section of the Powder River Basin

Zun Sheng Jiao, Ronald C. Surdam

Wyoming Geological Association

... flow system can be a capillary seal and form part of a pressure compartment boundary. All low-permeability rock types will serve as capillary seals...

Multiscale Geologic and Petrophysical Modeling of the Giant Hugoton Gas Field (Permian), Kansas and Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Martin K. Dubois, Alan P. Byrnes, Geoffrey C. Bohling, John H. Doveton

AAPG Special Volumes

..., capillary pressure, and relative permeability properties and distribution in low-permeability rocks important to evaluation, damage, and stimulation...

Fault transmissibility in clastic-argillaceous sequences controlled by clay smear evolution

Silvio B. Giger, Michael B. Clennell, N. Bozkurt Ciftci, Craig Harbers, Peter Clark, Mark Ricchetti

AAPG Bulletin

... of these individual mechanisms has not previously been quantified for particular clay properties and/or deformation conditions.Several fault seal...

Impact of Capillary Trapping on CSG Recovery: An Overlooked Phenomenon

Yiran Zhu, Zhongwei Chen, Huilin Xing, Victor Rudolph

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

.... As the contact angle is also a vital factor that affects capillary force, it will change with the fluid properties, the solid surface wettability...

ABSTRACT: CO2 Miscible Flooding--How and Where It Works, by Silvia C. Birk; #91037 (2010)

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A geologic deconstruction of one of the world's largest natural accumulations of CO2, Moxa arch, southwestern Wyoming

Thomas P. Becker, Ranie Lynds

AAPG Bulletin

... positive correlation between the two is suggestive that the dolomitic matrix properties are the dominant control on reservoir quality.Observations...

Reservoir Characterization and Storage Capacity Evaluation for Carbon Capture and Storage: A Case Study From East Natuna

Ken Prabowo, Jeres R. Cherdasa, Zuher Syihab, Tutuka Ariadji

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Evaluation DS – 1 Storage and Seal Petrophysical Properties Formation evaluation was done by calculating clay content, porosity, water saturation and rock...