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Modeling the impacts of hydro-mechanical coupled processes on reservoir stability and permeability

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Understanding and mastering the stability of underground storage is significant for improving safety operations in deep formations, this implies the investigation of stress state with geomechanical coupled processes. This paper focuses on the variation of in situ stress and the hydromechanical impact on reservoir stability. The Mohr–Coulomb criteria was used to evaluate the failure zones for the study of the four reservoirs stabilities. The MATLAB programing software was used for its accuracy and optimization ability, to implement the geomechanical model and simulate the reservoir effect. The numerical results obtained show that, the assessment throughout the in situ stress state increases with depth up to 15,000 m at its basement with a pore pressure at its bottom of 6.5 MPa, the minimum horizontal stress is 68.75 MPa, the maximum Horizontal stress gives 165 MPa and a vertical stress of 206.26 MPa. For the stability estimation, the first reservoir named Stuttgart gives the shear stress τ = 5 MPa, with the normal stress σn = 18 MPa, the stability factor is f = 0.4579 from the stress estimation, and its pressure breakdown is Pb = 8.87 MPa, with a flow rate of Q = 0.00071 m3/s for carbon dioxide injected. Other reservoirs are estimated the same with the safety zone given, setting Stuttgart and Rotiliegend to be good formations for underground storage from the interpretations done. This paper also compared two fluids for injection with water leading over CO2 from the results obtain.

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  1. Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering, National Advanced School of Engineering of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon

    C. I. R. Mbouombouo & C. B. Fokam

  2. The Institute of Earth and Environmental Science of the Faculty of Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    V. N. N. Djotsa

  3. Department of Mining Engineering, School of Geology and Mining Engineering, University of Ngaoundere, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

    L. L. N. Mambou, H. T. Kamgang & P. B. Mamadou

  4. Laboratoire de Mécanique et Matériaux de Génie Civil (L2MGC), CY Cergy Paris Université, 5 Mail Gay Lussac, Neuville Sur-Oise, 95000, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France

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Mbouombouo, C.I.R., Djotsa, V.N.N., Fokam, C.B. et al. Modeling the impacts of hydro-mechanical coupled processes on reservoir stability and permeability. Int J Energ Water Res (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42108-024-00281-4

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