MR010
Physics of Fluids in Unconventional Reservoir Rocks

Session ID#: 157378

Session Description:
Tight and ultra-tight oil/gas reservoirs are being explored and produced not only in North America but also elsewhere all around the world. Recently, shales and tight-gas sandstones became one of the major contributors to energy supplies, and thus investigating flow and transport in such reservoirs has been the active subject of research in the past decade. However, we are still far from fully understanding mechanisms and factors contributing to transport at various scales from pore to reservoir. The complexity of fluid flow in shales is mainly due to their multi-scale structures composed of nano- and micro-scale pores as well as natural microfractures and artificially induced fractures. Understanding factors and mechanisms contributing to transport in unconventional reservoir rocks has numerous practical applications, particularly in oil/gas exploration and production.

In this session, we aim to provide an opportunity for recent developments and applications of unconventional techniques to shales and mudrocks. The potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  1. Novel theoretical and computational developments as applied to ultra-tight rocks
  2. Digital rock physics
  3. Single- and multi-phase flow
  4. Decline curve analysis
  5. Non-Darcy flow
  6. Hydraulic fracturing and its applications to unconventional reservoirs
  7. Upscaling fluid flow in shales
  8. Effects of pore structure and connectivity on transport
  9. Oil/gas recovery in unconventional reservoirs
  10. Multiscale and multiresolution modeling of shales
  11. Stress- and scale-dependences of petrophysical quantities
  12. Measurement of flow parameters
  13. Fractal-based approaches to unconventional reservoirs
  14. Multi-physical methods
  15. Machine learning
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Primary Convener:  Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States
Conveners:  Feng Liang, Aramco Services Company: Aramco Research Center - Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Jianchao Cai, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
 
Effective Permeability in Matrix-Fracture Systems: Numerical Simulation and Theoretical Modeling (1049699)
Tolulope Quazeem Agbaje, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States and Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Solute Transport in Fractured Geological Formations: Insights from Particle Tracking Simulations (1049790)
Oluwaseun Akomolafe, Manhattan, KS, UNITED STATES, Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States and Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Rock typing of Mesaverde tight gas sandstones from western US basins (1051011)
Chinyere Eme, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, United States and Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States
 
Diffusion Behavior of CO2 in Bulk Fluids- and in Porous Media under Reservoir Conditions: A Micro-CT Study (1065608)
Bilal Zulfiqar1,2, Mohammed Amro1 and Helmut W Geistlinger2, (1)TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Halle, Halle, Germany
 
CFD-DEM Modeling of Proppant Transport and Placement in Toe-side Perforation Clusters to Guide Field Perforation Design (1072986)
Min Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States and Masa Prodanovic, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
 
A pH-Dependent Kinetic Model for Barite (BaSO4) Accumulation in Shales (1074680)
Barbara de Farias Esteves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, Adam D Jew, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Jennifer L Druhan, University of Illinois, Department of Geology, Urbana Champaign, United States
 
A New Model for Carbonate Reservoir Porosity Prediction Based on Transfer Component Analysis (1085151)
Beibei Gao, Shaogui Deng and Fengjiao Zhang, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
 
Occurrence Mechanism of Lacustrine Shale Oil in the Second Member of the Kongdian Formation in the Cangdong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China (1087563)
Qingmin Dong, Shiyue Chen, Jihua Yan and Yawen Wang, China University of Petroleum(East China), Qingdao, China
 
Gas adsorption and transport in kerogen and the associated chemo-mechanical effects (1090105)
Tuan A. Ho, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Yifeng Wang, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
 
Diffusivity based screening approach for seal integrity for underground gas storage. (1091428)
Sidi Mamoudou1, Judah Odiachi1, Ali Tinni1, Son Thai Dang2, Carl H Sondergeld2 and Chandra S Rai2, (1)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
 
Micromechanical Characteristics and Failure Mechanism of Conglomerate (1100832)
Jianbo Wang, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Petroleum Institute, Beijing, China, Hongkui Ge, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, China and Jiantong Liu, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, Beijing, CHINA
 
Effect of Microscopic Pore Structure on the Movable Fluid Occurrence in Tight Carbonate Reservoir (1107061)
Xuechun Wang, Shaogui Deng, Fengjiao Zhang and Yi Wu, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
 
Research on the Identification Method of Marine Clastic Rock Compartment Type Based on Xgboost Algorithm (1107872)
BoWei Zhi, Yiren Fan and Zhou Fang, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
 
Research on the Conductivity Law of Muddy Sandstone Based on Two-water Model Driven Effective Medium Symmetric Resistivity Model (1110240)
Shenyuan Niu and Xinmin GE, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
 
Correction of core nuclear magnetic porosity by fluid hydrogen index (1110287)
Guangda Mao and Xinmin GE, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
 
Simulation of fluid flow through rough-surfaced microfractures (1122773)
Morteza Heydari, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States, Feng Liang, Aramco Research Center, Houston, United States, ‪Hui-Hai Liu, Aramco Americas: Aramco Research Center ̶ Houston, Houston, United States and Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States
 
Scale dependence of permeability and electrical resistivity in rough-surfaced microfractures (1125937)
Morteza Heydari, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, Feng Liang, Aramco Research Center, Houston, United States, ‪Hui-Hai Liu, Aramco Americas: Aramco Research Center ̶ Houston, Houston, United States and Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States
 
Experimental Study on the Major Controlling Factors of Fracture Propagation during Supercritical CO2 Fracturing in Layered Tight Sandstone Reservoirs (1138858)
Sihai Li1, Hui Lin Xing1, Shicheng Zhang2, Yushi Zou2 and Weichao Yan1, (1)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (2)China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, China
 
A Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network to Estimate Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Content Using Well Logs in Raniganj Sub-Basin, India (1143314)
Mannat Khanna1, Shaik Nasif Ahmed2,3 and Nimisha Vedanti2,3, (1)Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, (2)CSIR- National Geophysical Research Institute, Shallow Seismic Group, Hyderabad, India, (3)Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India, Ghaziabad, India
 
Experimental and mathematical simulation of organic matter transformation processes in source rock formations (1153782)
Dina Rinatovna Gafurova1, Aleksey Khlyupin2, Anton Kalmykov3, Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah4, Khalid Al-Ramadan4 and Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Korost3, (1)King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhanran, Saudi Arabia, (2)Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia, (3)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, (4)King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
 
Shear mechanical behavior by considering anisotropic roughness of rock fracture (1155295)
Xunhui Xu1, Han Bao2 and Weiren Lin1, (1)Kyoto University, Urban Management, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Chang'an University, School of Highway, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
 
Experimental Study of Clay-bound Water on Wave Dispersion and Attenuation Signatures of Shale (1156345)
Teng Long1, Xuan Qin1, Qianqian Wei1, Yang Wang1, Dehua Han1, Yingcai Zheng1, Feng Chen1, Michael Myers2, Min Sun1, Qiuliang Yao1 and Luanxiao Zhao3, (1)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Houston, United States, (3)Tongji University, Shanghai, China
 
Insight Into the Pore Space of Clastic and Effusive Tight Rocks under Overburden Conditions by LF-NMR (1158626)
Michał Fajt, Anna Stefańska-Bernatowicz, Anna Sowiżdżał and Artur Tadeusz Krzyżak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
 
Hydraulic Fracture Extension and Proppant Accumulation and Microscopic Characteristics in the Soft Coal Sublayer in Coal Reservoirs (1162391)
Xiong Zhangkai, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), School of Earth Resources, Wuhan, China
 
Particle Migration Phenomenon of Bentonite Slurry Through Porous Media (1167985)
Ramesh Kannan Kandasami, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India and Jithin S Kumar, Indian institute of technology madras, Chennai, India
 
An Integrated Experimental and Multi-Physics Numerical Study on the Interplay Between Hydraulic and Elastic Properties of Fractured Rock Interfaces Under Stress Perturbations (1169849)
Chun-Yu Ke1, Clay Wood2, Andy Rathbun3, Chris Marone2,4, Derek Elsworth5, Jacques Riviere1 and Parisa Shokouhi6, (1)Pennsylvania State University, Engineering Science and Mechanics, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (3)Chevron ETC, San Ramon, United States, (4)Sapienza University of Rome, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Rome, Italy, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences, EMS Energy Institute, G3, University Park, PA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University, Engineering Science and Mechanics, University Park, United States
 
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Sorbing and Non-sorbing Gas on the Slippage Factor, Klinkenberg Permeability, and Biot Coefficient in Depleted Shale Gas Reservoir (1170045)
Abinash Bal and Santanu Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Earth Sciences, Kanpur, India
 
Interplay of Porosity, Mineralogy, TOC and Maturity on the Acoustic Properties of Organic Rich Damodar Valley Shales. (1174799)
Varun Dev Jamwal, Ravi Sharma, Ashish Dhiman, Hirakjyoti Kalita and Prabhat Pandey, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India
 
A Pulse-decay Method for Low Permeability Analyses of Granular Porous Media: Mathematical Solutions and Experimental Methodologies (1175476)
Tao Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Qinhong Hu, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States and Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States
 
Temperature-dependent nonlinear attenuation of the glycerol-saturated sandstones (1185417)
Wubing Deng1, Li-Yun Fu1, Igor B Morozov2 and Zhiwei Wang1, (1)China University of Petroleum (East China), School of Geosciences, Qingdao, China, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
Comprehensive investigation on role of wettability heterogeneity in immiscible two-phase flow in sandstones (1193238)
Ruichang Guo, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, Laura Dalton, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Morgantown, United States, Hongsheng Wang, Virginia Tech, Mining and Mineral Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, James E McClure, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Dustin Crandall, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Cheng Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, United States
 
Inferring Sand Production Zones from the Interplay of Formation Strength, Mineralogy, and Grainsize Distribution in the Eastern Onshore Basin in India (1198031)
Ankita Kukshal1, Ravi Sharma2, Hirak Kalita3, Varun Jamwal3 and Manisha Chaudhary4, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, EARTH SCIENCES, Roorkee, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCE, Roorkee, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (4)Ongc, Dehradun, India
 
Mineral Dissolution of Carbonate-rich Rocks Investigated through Microfluidic Image Analysis (1199012)
Junyoung Hwang1, Siqin Yu2, Bowen Ling3 and Ilenia Battiato1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States, (3)Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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