Abstract
Fine-migration-induced permeability damage in geological reservoirs is a critical problem in several environmental and energy operations. This study presents a novel numerical model aimed at predicting the hydro-mechanical response of a saturated porous formation containing fines to injection-induced fluid flow. The proposed model contains two novel components: incorporation of spatiotemporal fluid flow in the porous formation, and integration of the coupled interactions between the poroelastic response of the saturated porous formation and fine mobilization, migration, and straining. The modified particle detachment model has been adopted, using the maximum retention function for a monolayer of size-distributed fines. The results from the proposed model reveal that incorporation of the fines migration, mobilization, and straining has a substantial impact on in situ pore pressures (~ 65% higher pore pressures were predicted at wellbore vicinity after 1 h injection when incorporating particle straining). The findings also depict a lower fine-migration-induced permeability damage when incorporating the poroelastic response of the porous layer to injection flow.
Article Highlights
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Coupled interactions between geomechanical response of porous media and migration of in situ fines under injection.
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Higher injection-induced pore pressures when incorporating particle mobilization and straining.
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Reduction in fine-migration-induced permeability damage due to poroelastic response of injection layer.
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Abbreviations
- a :
-
Wellbore radius (m)
- \({\mathbf{D}}\) :
-
Drained elastic stiffness tensor (Pa)
- E :
-
Elastic modulus (Pa)
- \({\mathbf{F}}_{{\text{u}}}\) :
-
External force (N)
- \(k\) :
-
Intrinsic permeability (m)
- \(k_{0}\) :
-
Initial intrinsic permeability (m)
- \(K_{{\text{f}}}\) :
-
Fluid bulk modulus (Pa)
- \(K_{{\text{s}}}\) :
-
Solid matrix bulk modulus (Pa)
- M :
-
Biot’s modulus (Pa)
- \({\mathbf{N}}_{{\text{F}}}\) :
-
Shape function of suspended fine particles
- \({\mathbf{N}}_{{\text{p}}}\) :
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Shape function of pore pressure
- \({\mathbf{N}}_{{\text{u}}}\) :
-
Shape function of solid displacement
- P :
-
Induced pore pressure (Pa)
- \({\mathbf{q}}^{{\text{f}}}\) :
-
Fluid flux vector (m/s)
- \(q_{{{\text{inj}}}}^{{\text{f}}}\) :
-
The rate of fluid injection (m/s)
- \(r\) :
-
Radius (m)
- \(r_{{{\text{scr}}}}\) :
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Critical radius of fine particles (m)
- \(s_{{\text{a}}}\) :
-
Concentration of attached fine particles
- \(s_{{\text{c}}}\) :
-
Concentration of suspended fine particles
- \(s_{{{\text{cr}}}}\) :
-
Maximal retention function
- S s :
-
Concentration of strained fine particles
- t :
-
Fluid injection time (s)
- T :
-
Temperature (°C)
- u :
-
Induced displacement vector (m)
- \({\mathbf{v}}^{f}\) :
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Fluid velocity vector (m/s)
- \({\mathbf{v}}_{{\text{m}}}^{{\text{f}}}\) :
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Maximum velocity vector when no particles can stay attached on rock surface (m/s)
- \({{\varvec{\upalpha}}}\) :
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Biot’s effective stress coefficient vector
- \(\alpha_{{{\text{fd}}}}\) :
-
Coefficient of fines distribution
- \(\alpha_{{{\text{fp}}}}\) :
-
Particle drift delay factor
- \(\beta_{s}\) :
-
Formation damage coefficient
- \({{\varvec{\updelta}}}\) :
-
Kronecker’s delta
- \({{\varvec{\upvarepsilon}}}\) :
-
Induced strain vector
- \(\kappa\) :
-
Fluid mobility coefficient [m/ (Pa‧s)]
- \(\lambda_{s}\) :
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Filtration coefficient
- \(\mu\) :
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Fluid viscosity (Pa‧s)
- \(\nu\) :
-
Poisson’s ratio
- \(\phi\) :
-
Porosity
- \(\phi_{{\text{c}}}\) :
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Cake porosity
- \(\psi\) :
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Maximum error allowed
- \({{\varvec{\upsigma}}}\) :
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Induced total stress vector (Pa)
- \(\zeta\) :
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Variation in fluid content
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Appendix
The shape functions \(N_{i}\) (\(i = 1,2 \ldots 8\)) for 8-node rectangular quadrilateral elements are
where \(\xi\) and \(\eta\) are dimensions in the local coordinates.
The shape functions \(N_{i}\) (\(i = 1,2,3,4\)) for 4-node rectangular quadrilateral elements are
The shape functions of solid displacement, pore pressure and fine particle are given by
The strain–displacement transformation matrix \({\mathbf{B}}\) is
Similarly, the matrices \(\nabla {\mathbf{N}}_{p}\) and \(\nabla {\mathbf{N}}_{F}\) are defined as
In Eqs. (37) and (38), the shape function derivatives with respect to the global coordinates is defined as
where \(i = \begin{array}{*{20}c} {1,} & {2,} & \cdots & 8 \\ \end{array}\) and \(j = \begin{array}{*{20}c} {1,} & {2,} & {3,} & 4 \\ \end{array}\). \({\mathbf{J}}\) is the Jacobin matrix and defined as
where
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Zhai, X., Atefi-Monfared, K. Injection-Induced Poroelastic Response of Porous Media Containing Fine Particles, Incorporating Particle Mobilization, Transport, and Straining. Transp Porous Med 137, 629–650 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01580-8
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