Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Sedimentary rocks Fluid dynamics'

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
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This thesis is aimed to calculate the effective permeability tensor and to simulate the fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs. This requires an understanding of the mechanisms of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs and the detailed properties of individual fractures and matrix porous media. This study has been carried out to address the issues and difficulties faced by previous methods; to establish possible answers to minimise the difficulties; and hence, to improve the efficiency of reservoir simulation through the use of properties of individual fractures. The methodology used in this study combines several mathematical and numerical techniques like the boundary element method, periodic boundary conditions, and the control volume mixed finite element method. This study has contributed to knowledge in the calculation of the effective permeability and simulation of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs through the development of two algorithms. The first algorithm calculates the effective permeability tensor by use of properties of arbitrary oriented fractures (location, size and orientation). It includes all multi-scaled fractures and considers the appropriate method of analysis for each type of fracture (short, medium and long). In this study a characterisation module which provides the detail information for individual fractures is incorporated. The effective permeability algorithm accounts for fluid flows in the matrix, between the matrix and the fracture and disconnected fractures on effective permeability. It also accounts for the properties of individual fractures in calculation of the effective permeability tensor. The second algorithm simulates flow of single-phase fluid in naturally fractured reservoirs by use of the effective permeability tensor. This algorithm takes full advantage of the control volume discretisation technique and the mixed finite element method in calculation of pressure and fluid flow velocity in each grid block. It accounts for the continuity of flux between the neighbouring blocks and has the advantage of calculation of fluid velocity and pressure, directly from a system of first order equations (Darcy???s law and conservation of mass???s law). The application of the effective permeability tensor in the second algorithm allows us the simulation of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs with large number of multi-scale fractures. The fluid pressure and velocity distributions obtained from this study are important and can considered for further studies in hydraulic fracturing and production optimization of NFRs.

Etudes methodologiques concernant l'analyse non destructive des fractions volatiles et des hydrocarbures liquides pieges dans les inclusions fluides par des methodes ponctuelles et non destructives comme la microspectrometrie infra-rouge et raman et la microfluorometrie, et d'autre part la mesure des changements de volume et de composition lors de surchauffes sous pression de confinement dans les inclusions de la fluorine. Les apports originaux des etudes d'inclusions fluides a la connaissance des circulations de fluides dans les bassins sedimentaires et pour la definition des conditions de depot des gites mineraux dans des contextes geologiques differents sont montres. Trois principaux types de solutions peuvent etre definis: les eaux connees de la diagenese faible a moyennement salines; les saumures d'origine diapirique; les solutions qui resultent d'un melange entre eaux connees et solutions hydrothermales

Orientador: Denis José Schiozer
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica
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Resumo: A recuperação de petróleo em reservatórios naturalmente fraturados apresenta-se como um risco de projeto, sobretudo em sistemas molháveis ao óleo ou com molhabilidade intermediária, já que a simulação utilizando deslocamento por injeção de água indica significativa redução da recuperação. As fraturas representam descontinuidades do meio poroso e possuem efeito capilar e condutividade hidráulica distintos, o que altera sensivelmente o comportamento do escoamento no reservatório, e também os mecanismos físicos envolvidos no processo de recuperação. A simulação de reservatórios fraturados é geralmente realizada com o modelo de dupla porosidade, que está implementado nos principais simuladores comerciais. Neste modelo os processos físicos envolvidos na recuperação são representados pela função de transferência entre matriz e fratura. No entanto, os simuladores comerciais utilizam diferentes funções de transferências com diferentes modelos para representar o processo de recuperação. Neste trabalho, foi construído um simulador de dupla porosidade no qual foram implementadas as funções de transferência de Kazemi et al. (1976), Sabathier et al. (1998) e Lu et al. (2008) para comparação dos resultados de recuperação utilizando deslocamento por injeção de água em sistemas molháveis ao óleo ou com molhabilidade intermediária. A comparação entre as funções de transferência foi realizada para diferentes combinações de processos físicos, mostrando que há significativo aumento de recuperação em sistemas molháveis ao óleo ou com molhabilidade intermediária, especialmente em reservatórios totalmente descontínuos quando o deslocamento ocorre por embebição concorrente, coerentemente com o resultado experimental de Firoozabadi (2000). As funções de transferência implementadas, associadas ao modelo de dupla porosidade, foram também comparadas a simuladores comerciais e a um modelo de fraturas discretas refinado, obtendo-se, entretanto, resultados distintos, mostrando que os diferentes modelos de função de transferência fornecem diferentes resultados. A injeção de água mostrou-se um método de recuperação efetivo mesmo em reservatórios totalmente descontínuos em sistemas molháveis ao óleo ou com molhabilidade intermediária quando há deslocamento por embebição concorrente com gradientes de pressão nos blocos de matriz suficientemente elevados. Os resultados são sensíveis aos parâmetros de caracterização e variam de acordo com o processo físico utilizado. Portanto, a caracterização de reservatórios naturalmente fraturados deve ser realizada levando-se em consideração os fenômenos físicos e os modelos utilizados para representá-los
Abstract: The naturally fractured reservoir recovery is a project risk specially in oil-wet or intermediate-wet systems because of the simulations results under waterflood displacement. Fractures are porous medium discontinuities with distinct capillarity and hydraulic conductivity properties that change the reservoir flow behaviour as well the physical mechanisms acting in petroleum recovery. Double-porosity models are generally used in fractured reservoir simulation and have been implemented in the major commercial reservoir simulators. The physical processes acting in petroleum recovery are represented in double-porosity models by matrix-fracture transfer functions. Commercial simulators have their own transfer function implementations, and as a result different kinetics and final recoveries are attained. In this work, a double porosity simulator was built with Kazemi et al. (1976), Sabathier et al. (1998) and Lu et al. (2008) transfer function implementations and their recovery results compared using waterflood displacement in oil-wet or intermediate-wet systems. The results of transfer function comparisons show recovery improvements in oil-wet or intermediate-wet systems under different physical processes combination, particularly in fully discontinuous porous medium when concurrent imbibition takes place, coherent with Firoozabadi (2000) experimental results. Furthermore, the implemented transfer functions, related to a double-porosity model, were compared to double-porosity commercial simulators models, as well a discrete fracture model with refined grid, showing differences between them. Waterflood can be an effective recovery method even in fully discontinuous media for oil-wet or intermediate-wet systems where concurrent imbibition takes place with high enough pressure gradients across the matrix blocks. These results are sensitive to reservoir characterization parameters whose sensitiveness depends on the physical process employed. Naturally fractured reservoir characterization must consider the physical phenomena occurring during recovery and the models used to represent them
Mestrado
Reservatórios e Gestão
Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

Le gisement de beddiane appartient au district de touissit-bou beker, "chaine des horsts", maroc oriental. Il est encaisse dans la serie alleno-bajocienne, discordante sur le socle paleozoique, et se caracterise, par rapport aux gisements voisins, par sa richesse exceptionnelle en plomb, des concentrations exploitables de cuivre et peu de zinc. L'analyse sedimentologique de la formation carbonatee encaissante a permis de mettre en evidence des sequences transgressives et regressives, traduisant un environnement geologique instable: subsidences saccadees et emersions temporaires, suivies de phenomenes de dissolution-karstification pendant et apres le depot de la formation. L'examen petrographique a permis de distinguer plusieurs types de dolomies et de mettre en evidence deux phases principales de dolomitisation: un diagenetique precoce et une autre epigenetique, tardive. La lithogeochimie, effectuee a partir des carottes de sondages, a montre que toutes les assises carbonatees, sont fortement anormales en pb, zn et cu et plus particulierement les facies micritiques. Trois phases de mineralisations zn, pb et cu ont ete distinguees. La zonalite verticale et horizontale des mineralisations au sein du gisement et la geometrie des karsts mineralises suggerent que les solutions salines hydrothermales (100**(o)c) aient circule d'ouest en est dans cette couverture carbonatee. La presence dans le socle sous-jacent de filons a pb-cu pourrait temoigner d'une origine plus profonde des fluides mineralisateurs

M.Sc. (Geology)
The Proterozoic Namaqua-Natal Mobile Belt of southern Africa represents a succession of high grade metamorphosed igneous and sedimentary rocks rimming the southern and western extents of the Kaapvaal craton. Different petrological processes associated with the onset of granulite facies metamorphism were investigated with the emphasis on the processes on anatexis and migmatitization and the influence of the fluid phase on these processes. The investigation took place in the Margate Terrane of the Southern Natal Metamorphic Province. The Umzimkulu and Louisiana Quarries near Port Shepstone formed the bulk of the field area for this investigation. The Umzimkulu and Louisiana quarries expose two s-type granitic lithologies, namely, the Glenmore Biotite Gneiss (GBGn) and the slightly younger, intrusive Margate Leucogranite (MLGn), both of which have been metamorphosed to granulite facies. Geothermobarometric calculations on the metamorphism of the Margate Terrane all indicate temperatures and pressures of peak metamorphism be 850oC+50oC at +6 kbar. The high grade metamorphic history of the lithologies is recorded by the formation of concordant, lens-shaped, prograde anatectic leucosomes. The leucosomes are concentrically surrounded by biotite selvage zones, followed by melanosomes, and lastly undisturbed host rock material. This investigation revealed that the formation of both the charnockite veins and the prograde leucosomes occurred through processes of anatexis. Field relations suggest that the charnockitic veins formed in situ, and were structurally controlled, which is evident from their linearity. Petrographic and geochemical data provide evidence for melt involvement. This is in strong contrast to theories of charnockite formation ascribed to subsolidus granulite formation by the flushing of host lithologies by a pervasive, carbonic fluid, as has been suggested to have occurred in Southern India. The so-called "incipient charnockites" of Southern India are both morphologically and geochemically similar to the charnockite veins described in the SNMP, suggesting that an anatectic origin may be common to both.