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Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering
Elsevier Science B.V.
Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering

Elsevier Science B.V.

0920-4105

Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering/Journal Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering
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    Stability of novel cellulose-nanofiber-containing foam as environmentally friendly fracturing fluid

    Mikihito IshiiSumihiko MurataKazuya Ishitsuka
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:Foam-based fracturing is one of the waterless fracturing technologies that can reduce the environmental issues of water-based fracturing.To utilize foam as a fracturing fluid in oil/gas developments,improving foam stability is essential.To examine whether the environmentally friendly and low-cost cellulose nanofiber(CNF)can be a novel foam stabilizer,we investigated the effect of surfactant on the initial foam volume and stability of CNF-containing foam using four types of surfactants with different electrical properties.Then,we investigated the stability of CNF-containing foam under the high-pressure or high-temperature conditions as well as under the laboratory pressure and temperature condition and compared to the stability of foam containing sodium salt of CMC(NaCMC).In addition,we investigated the stability of CNF-containing foam under the presence of salts.As a result,it was concluded that the initial foam volume and stability of CNF-containing foam strongly depend on the type of surfactant because the CNF surface is negatively charged;the CNF is superior to NaCMC as a foam stabilizer,especially in the CNF concentration range above 0.10 wt%;the stability of CNF-containing foam decreases with increasing temperature and increases with increasing pressure,and it is significantly reduced with the addition of salt because the aggregation of the CNFs is formed due to the interaction between the salt cations and CNFs.Further research is expected to use CNF as a stabilizer for foam-based fracturing fluids as CNF is an attractive biomass substance as a foam stabilizer.

    Source rock pyrolysis and bulk kinetic modelling of Miocene sedimentary sequences in southeastern Sabah,Malaysia:The variability of thermal maturity to oil-gas producing kerogen

    Nur Amalina Ahmad Thana'AniKhairul Azlan MustaphaMohammed Idris
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:The study reports a new organic geochemical evaluation for a petroleum source rock in the Southeastern(SE)Sabah basin.The analyses focus on Kalabakan,Tanjong,and Kapilit Formation deposited in the deltaic-shallow marine environment stratigraphically from the Early to Late Miocene sequences.The basin sediments are part of the hydrocarbon prolific Tarakan basin,extending from the northernmost of Kalimantan Indonesia to the southeastern Sabah(mainly onshore area).The hydrocarbon generation of Kapilit and Tanjong Formation pinnacles the Total Organic Carbon(TOC)contents that range from 0.62 to 81.97 wt% and 0.97-92.96 wt% respectively.The dominant black shale in Kalabakan Formation has lower TOC content between 0.50 and 1.82 wt%.The results in the Rock-Eval S2 of Kapilit(0.31-351.61 mg HC/g rock)and Tanjong Formation(3.32-239.78 mg HC/g rock)have excellent source rock potential compared to the Kalabakan Formation(0.12-1.19 mg C/g rock)with fair to good source rock potential.All three formations give a wide maturity range of vitrinite reflectance(VR_o)and Tmax values,from immature to over-mature stage.Stratigraphically from youngest to oldest Miocene sequences,the Tmax increases with increasing VR_o values.The dispersion of organic matter that requires high maturity and overburden of thick upper succession over Kalabakan Formation reflects a higher maturity stage than the Tanjong and Kapilit Formations.Pyrolysis results in Kapilit,Tanjong,and Kalabakan Formation has HI values to varies between 50 and 498 mg HC/g,157-367 mg HC/g and 14-110 mg HC/g TOC respectively.The binary plot of HI versus Tmax supported by Py-GC pyrolysis marks that the Kapilit source rock is dominated by Type II-III kerogen,potentially generating immature to mature oil and gas prone.Tanjong Formation portrays a mature to late mature stage of Type III kerogen with a minor Type II kerogen capable of producing mixing of oil and gas prone,with mainly gas.The Kalabakan Formation shows a post-mature Type III and IV kerogen that generates gas or barren source rock.In terms of bulk kinetic evaluation,both Kapilit and Tanjong Formation are derived from heterogeneous organic matter.The projected petroleum temperature varies substantially due to the compositional variation.The onset of bulk petroleum generation in the Kapilit and Tanjong Formation occur at 112 ℃-128 ℃ and 127 ℃-142 ℃ respectively.The results are consistent with the maturity generated where the Tanjong has higher thermal maturity than Kapilit Formation due to stable aromatic Type III kerogen.Generally,all samples show great variability in thermal maturity and hydrocarbon generation potential,which that be influenced by the tectonism and development of sediments in the basin.The Early Miocene source rock yields post mature gas prone and continues to generate hydrocarbon that consists of mature oil and gas prone from younger source rocks.

    Innovative thermo-responsive in-situ generated proppant:Laboratory tests and field application

    Nanlin ZhangZhifeng LuoLiqiang Zhao
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:The bottlenecks of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas reservoirs are related to placing proppants into narrow fractures and their long-distance transportation through the fracture.To break through the technical bottleneck,a thermo-responsive in-situ generated proppant(IGP)is proposed in this study.The IGP,which is a phase-transition fluid(PF)before the phase transition,is mixed with non-phase-transition fluid(NPF)in a certain proportion,thus obtaining a phase-transition fracturing fluid system(PFFS).The latter is injected into the reservoir in liquid form,and PF undergoes a phase transition under the stimulation of the reservoir temperature to generate IGP to prop fractures.NPF occupies some fracture spaces,which serve as high-conductivity flow channels for oil and gas after the NPF flow back.IGP could be formed in any fracture with different widths and realize long-distance transportation.A series of tests were performed,yielding the PFFS viscosity of about 56 mPa s at 20 ℃.The higher the temperature,the lower the viscosity before the phase transition,providing sufficient injectability to enter and prop artificial fractures of any width.The IGP apparent density was about 1.04 g/cm~3,and the roundness and sphericity of its particles were about 0.9.The phase transition time was reduced by adding more phase-transition adjusting agents(PTAA)and increasing the temperature.The drag reduction rate reached 69% at the PTAA content of 0.15%,strongly reducing the required pump's injection pressure.Under the same conditions,IGP had higher conductivity than quartz sand and ceramsite.Field application results proved that the stimulation effect is better than that of a conventional fracturing treatment,and the proposed fracturing material and procedure required less powerful and complicated equipment,simplified the treatment procedures,and reduced treatment time and cost.Therefore,it is a potential advanced material in future stimulation of oil and gas reservoirs.

    A review of experimental apparatus for supercritical CO2 fracturing of shale

    Xiufeng ZhangWancheng ZhuZenghe Xu
    17页
    查看更多>>摘要:Supercritical carbon dioxide(SC-CO2)is a promising fracturing fluid with unique properties,making it well-suited for unconventional reservoir stimulation.Laboratory experiments are essential for determining hydraulic parameters prior to field trials.The fracturing apparatus thus plays a primary and indispensable role in evaluating SC-CO2 fracturing potential.In this review article,a simple overview of water-based and waterless fracturing fluids is first provided from the perspective of their application effects and limitations.It is concluded that,compared with hydraulic fracturing,CO2 fracturing shows tremendous potential,the research of which has the need to conduct laboratory experiments with new or improved fracturing apparatuses.Second,many multifunctional apparatuses have been designed to investigate the SC-CO2 fracturing of reservoir rocks.In this regard,the currently developed SC-CO2 fracturing apparatuses are reviewed with respect to their function units and related existing shortcomings.Different apparatuses correspond to various test schemes and results,among which the influences of the apparatus design on the experimental results are discussed.In particular,some remarks are made regarding the control of the initial injected CO2 phase and the temperature-pressure measurement of CO2 during fracturing.Third,inspired by the literature review,a self-designed experimental apparatus is developed to conduct SC-CO2 fracturing tests.In particular,an integrated structure for the temperature-pressure measurement associated with CO2 injection is proposed.Moreover,a triaxial core holder is customized to assist in measuring specimen strains and acoustic emission(AE)signals while ensuring the sealing performance of loading and injection systems.Ultimately,the challenges faced in industrial applications,such as fracturing equipment,CO2-rock interactions,and CO2 phase control,have impeded the field-scale application of SC-CO2 fracturing for shale gas development.Hereby,future apparatus design concepts are given for comprehensive investigations of SC-CO2 fracturing mechanism.

    Damage evaluation of rock salt under multilevel cyclic loading with constant stress intervals using AE monitoring and CT scanning

    Kai ZhaoHongling MaXiaopeng Liang
    16页
    查看更多>>摘要:When salt caverns are used for the medium of underground energy storage,the surrounding rock experiences cyclic loading due to periodical injection-production.The cyclic load contains constant stress intervals and varied stress amplitudes,which threatens the stability of the salt caverns.In this study,multilevel cyclic loading with constant stress intervals on rock salt were conducted under uniaxial compression conditions.Acoustic emission(AE)monitoring and post-test computed tomography(CT)scanning were used to evaluate the damage evolution during the loading process.Results show that the density of the hysteresis loops in overall stress-strain curves present two-stage alternating sparse and dense loops during the loading.The cumulative AE count/energy increases with increasing the number of cycles and loading stage,and the growth rate for a single stage gradually becomes constant.The AE signals were divided into six kinds according to frequency-amplitude distribution.The presence of stress intervals increases the number of cracks and the median scale cracks account for about 90% of the total number of cracks.By analyzing the CT images,the crack morphology of the salt sample without hold time shows several inclined main cracks with numerous branch microcracks while that with the hold time of 20 s shows multiple branch cracks and numerous microcracks.To quantitatively evaluate damage evolution during the loading process,a damage variable is defined based on the relative variation of AE parameters.The damage accumulation for a single loading stage presents a two-phase pattern,and the damage degree during the accelerated deformation accounts for approximately half of the total damage.This study can provide guidance for designing the operation parameters when salt caverns are used for the storage of natural gas,air and CO2.

    Multiscale storage and transport modeling in unconventional shale gas:A review

    Clement AfagwuMohamed A.MahmoudSaad Alafnan
    21页
    查看更多>>摘要:Several studies have been performed to model the storage and transport in organic matter present in shale gas.However,the unconventional formation does not only contain organic matter but also inorganic mineral matrix,The studies necessitated by this research gap showed that quartz pores contribute more to the amount of free gas present in shale while clay minerals play a significant role to the adsorbed gas storage capacity,especially in rocks containing low total organic content.Interestingly,methane and a small amount of carbon dioxide,ethane,propane,nitrogen,and water are trapped within the mineral pores and the interphase between two or more minerals.The gases present are stored in a sorbed and free state at different pore scales,which makes the modeling challenging.More so,the adsorbed gas layer influences gas transport through the pore structure.In this work,an extensive review of experimental and simulation outlook to these subjects was considered,with emphasis on key highlights and limitations to previous studies.Besides,there was a recap of commonly utilized field perspectives to compute the producible gas from shale reservoirs,and an insight into an experimental validation point of view.Analytical and numerical transport description methods were broadly debated.Furthermore,there was an overview of the widely availed relationship between heat with chemical and physical adsorption,including the process for evaluating the efficiency of CO2 sequestration and enhanced gas recovery projects in shale reservoirs alongside the possible drawbacks in their application.

    A study on water saturation predictions in igneous reservoirs based on the relationship between the transverse relaxation time and the resistivity index

    Yuhang GuoBaozhi PanLihua Zhang
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:Maintaining the accuracy of well-logging interpretations in igneous reservoirs has long been a difficult problem.The igneous gas reservoirs in eastern China are important exploration targets at the present time.It has been found that,when compared with sedimentary rock reservoirs,the properties of igneous rock change faster with depth,and the reservoir spaces tend to be more complex.In addition,the porosity and permeability are lower,making the evaluations of water saturation more challenging.Generally speaking,the Archie Equation parameters can be obtained through a large number of laboratory core measurements,and then applied to the logging interpretations of water saturation.However,the longitudinal heterogeneity of reservoirs is neglected by fixed parameters which are referred to as"static parameters".In the current research investigation,in order to improve the accuracy of the logging interpretations,a method of segmentation characterization was used to invert the Archie's Equation parameters from NMR logging data,based on the relationships between the transverse relaxation times(T2)and the resistivity indexes(I).Subsequently,the dynamic Archie parameters which changed with depth were obtained using the aforementioned method,which had not only considered the longitudinal heterogeneity of the reservoirs,but also provided a new interpretation method for the water saturation of igneous reservoirs.In addition,this study also analyzed the relationships between the key parameters and pore structure parameters in the designed model.It was found that the data distributions of igneous rock and sedimentary rock had displayed opposite trends.Therefore,the results of this study confirmed that the conductivity of igneous rock is affected by the proportion of macropores.

    An optimized XGBoost method for predicting reservoir porosity using petrophysical logs

    Shaowei PanZechen ZhengZhi Guo
    8页
    查看更多>>摘要:To overcome the deficiencies of current porosity prediction methods,the XGBoost algorithm is introduced to construct a model for porosity prediction,and the obtained model is optimized by the grid search method and genetic algorithm.First,the optimal values of the three integer hyperparameters and the ranges of optimal values for the five floating-point hyperparameters of the XGBoost algorithm are determined by the grid search method.Then,the optimal values of the five floating-point hyperparameters of the XGBoost algorithm are determined with the genetic algorithm based on the determined value ranges.In this way,the model for porosity prediction based on the XGBoost algorithm and optimized by the grid search method and genetic algorithm(GS-GA-XGBoost)is constructed,and it has eight hyperparameters with determined optimal values.Compared with other porosity prediction methods,our method solves the problems such as the strong subjectivity and poor gener-alizability of conventional logging interpretation methods and the insufficient generalization performance of machine learning methods in previous porosity prediction studies,and the accuracy of the constructed model for porosity prediction is also greatly improved.Specifically,the RMSE,MAE and MAPE generated by GS-GA-XGBoost on the test set are 0.527946,0.155880 and 0.020500 respectively,while those generated by linear regression(LR),support vector regression(SVR),random forest(RF),the XGBoost algorithm with default pa-rameters(XGBoost)and the XGBoost algorithm optimized only by the grid search method(GS-XGBoost)on the test set are 3.535521,2.801047,0.375713,and 2.695310,2.002280,0.283582,and 1.015801,0.638878,0.085942,and 2.781069,1.860557,0.293334,and 1.380065,0.979419,0.128486,respectively.Finally,the multithread technology is introduced to improve the computational speed of GS-GA-XGBoost.GS-GA-XGBoost provides some technical references for the construction of porosity prediction models for oil fields in Northern I Shaanxi,China,and other regions.

    Effect of parameter correlation on risk analysis of wellbore instability in deep igneous formations

    Tianshou MaYun ZhangYi Qiu
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:A Permian igneous formation in the Sichuan Basin typically exhibits complex lithology,strong heterogeneity,and strong uncertainty;consequently,there is a very high risk of wellbore collapse during drilling and completion,which would seriously affect the safety,efficiency,and cost of drilling operations.Therefore,to prevent wellbore collapse in Permian igneous rock formations,a risk assessment method of wellbore instability based on reliability theory was proposed,and the effects of parameter correlation on the reliability of wellbore stability were considered.First,profiles of the rock mechanical parameters,formation pore pressure,and in-situ stresses were established by logging interpretation.Second,the optimal probability distribution of each parameter was determined for three typical igneous formations,and the correlation coefficient matrix was obtained using correlation analysis.Third,the effect of parameter correlation was involved to propose a risk analysis method of wellbore instability,where the Monte Carlo method was used for random sampling.Finally,the safe mud weight window of each igneous formation was determined,and the sensitivity of wellbore stability to the parameter mean values and correlation coefficients was analyzed.The results indicate that significant uncertainty and parameter correlation exist for the igneous formations,which clearly affect wellbore stability.The effect is greatest for the breccia formation,followed by the tuff and basalt formations.The correlations between cohesion and internal friction angle and between cohesion and maximum horizontal principal stress are the most important factors affecting collapse pressure,whereas the correlation between the two horizontal stresses is most important for fracture pressure.The results suggest that the effect of parameter correlation on the reliability of wellbore stability in strongly heterogeneous settings cannot be ignored.

    Reduced well path parameterization for optimization problems through machine learning

    Brage S.KristoffersenMathias C.BelloutThiago L.Silva
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:In this work we apply a recently developed machine learning routine for automatic well planning to simplify well parameterization in reservoir simulation models.This reduced-order parameterization is shown to be beneficial for well placement optimization,both in terms of convergence and final well configuration.The proposed machine learning routine maps trajectories that honor predefined engineering requirements by exploiting spatial information about the reservoir and prior domain-knowledge about the problem.In this paper,the well planner creates wells that traverse high-permeable parts of the reservoir,thereby increasing well productivity.Previous work found that small changes to the start-and end-points of the well had limited impact on most of the resulting well trajectories,since development of trajectories is chiefly determined by local information around the digital drill bit.In particular,changes in the depth component of the start-and end-points had limited impact on the trajectory away from the end-points.Based on these observations,this work reduces well parameterization to only include horizontal coordinates.The main assumption is that the perforated part of the well always enters the reservoir at the upper reservoir boundary,while the stopping criteria in the machine learning routine is a perforation length only.This formulation reduces the number of decision variables from six to four coordinates for each well.The resulting reduced search space enables a more efficient exploration effort at the cost of less freedom over the start and end points of the well path.However,we show that the highly-refined well trajectory developed by the well planning routine is robust and compensates for fewer degrees of freedom at the overarching parameterization.This robustness is tested by investigating the effect of different start locations on the automatic well planning routines.Moreover,the effect of the reduced well parameterization for well placement optimization is explored.Two optimization scenarios using four different optimizations algorithms are presented.Results show the implementation of the reduced well parameterization for optimization purposes consistently produces high quality solutions.