Geomechanical evaluation of CO2 underground disposal is complex and can be even more challenging in coal reservoirs due to natural fractures and combined effects of multi-component transport. The objective of the research work presented in this paper…
Production or injection of fluids from/in an underground storage site causes variations of pore pressure and stress states. These fluctuations significantly affect implications for hydraulic fracturing, wellbore integrity, top surface subsidence and…
The prospects for CO2 sequestration in depleted shale gas formations are widely studied. Reported studies offer quantitative predictions of ultimate storage capacity as well as CO2 injection rate for a typical injection site or on an areal basis.…
During recent years reduction of carbon dioxide emission driving development of different technologies for CO2 capturing and utilization. Carbon dioxide injection in underground reservoirs is on of effective methods for storage or utilization as…
Sandia National Laboratories has long used the Munson-Dawson (M-D) model to predict the geomechanical behavior of salt caverns used to store oil at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Salt creep causes storage caverns to deform inward, thus losing…
Underground natural gas storage is a cyclical technique that consists in the use of geological structures, such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, aquifers, and salt domes, to store gas for future consumption as per demand. Although, underground gas…
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) methods have been widely applied in oil-sands exploitation globally. SAGD processes are effective only after thermal and hydraulic communication between the injector and producer has been established during the…
Geologic reservoirs containing gas hydrate occur beneath permafrost environments and within marine continental slope sediments, representing a potentially vast natural gas source. Numerical simulators provide scientists and engineers with tools for…
Reservoirs of unconventional petroleum resources, such as tight oil and gas, are characterized with low porosity and low matrix permeability. Since natural fractures act as the main channel of gas flow, their impacts on production are enormous. This…
The mechanical behavior of rocks in basin and petroleum system modeling is usually simplified through an empirical law that relates burial depth and rock porosity, which may compromise the accuracy of simulations in less conventional scenarios.…
Xinjiang oil field is at the heart of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and special technologies like hydraulic fracturing treatments and thermally enhanced oil recovery technology were applied for unconventional petroleum productions in the…
Underground natural gas storage is a cyclical technique that consists in the use of geological structures, such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, aquifers, and salt domes, to store gas for future consumption as per demand. Although, underground gas…
This work addresses a field-scale model, in which the equations of multiphase/multicomponent fluid flow and geomechanics were fully coupled, to simulate natural gas successive storage/recovery processes in an Iranian sandstone depleted gas reservoir.…
Sandia National Laboratories has long used the Munson-Dawson (M-D) model to predict the geomechanical behavior of salt caverns used to store oil at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Salt creep causes storage caverns to deform inward, thus losing…
Underground natural gas storage is a cyclical technique that consists in the use of geological structures, such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, aquifers, and salt domes, to store gas for future consumption as per demand. Although, underground gas…
Estimates of line-of-sight (LOS) displacements from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) observations serve as the basis of the long-term monitoring of an operating natural gas storage site at Honor Rancho in California. An inversion…
Estimates of line-of-sight (LOS) displacements from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) observations serve as the basis of the long-term monitoring of an operating natural gas storage site at Honor Rancho in California. An inversion…
Shale gas reservoirs, with typically ultra-low permeabilities, have been a major focus of hydrocarbon production over the past few decades. In this paper, we investigated how biogeomechanical alteration of near-wellbore properties could potentially…
The question is: What is the role of microwave remote-sensing technology to solve the aforementioned issues? In the domain, surface and above-surface remote-sensing consequences have had insufficient deficiencies. This chapter is devoted to…