A Fully Coupled Chemo-Poroelastic Analysis of Pore Pressure and Stress Distribution around a Wellbore in Water Active Rocks |
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Authors: | Hamid Roshan S S Rahman |
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Institution: | (1) School of Petroleum Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW2052, Australia; |
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Abstract: | Water active rocks consist of minerals that hold water in their crystalline structure and in pore spaces. Free water from
drilling fluid can be attracted by the formation depending on the potential differences between pore space and drilling fluid.
The fluid movement into the formation or out of the formation can lead to a change in effective stress, thus causing wellbore
failures. In all previous studies it is found that the solute transport from or to the formation is primarily controlled by
diffusion process and the effect of advection on solute transfer is negligible for a range of very low permeable shale formations
(>10−5 mD). In this study a range of permeable shale formations (10−5 to 10−3 mD) commonly encountered in drilling oil and gas wells are considered to investigate the solute transfer between drilling
fluid and formation due to advection. For this purpose a finite element model of fully coupled chemo-hydro-mechanical processes
was developed. Results of this study revealed that the solute transfer between the drilling fluid and the shale formation
is controlled primarily by permeability of the shale formations. For the range of shale formations studied here, there exists
a threshold permeability below which the solute transfer is dominated by diffusion process and above which by fluid in motion
(fluid flow). Results from the numerical experiments have shown that when the permeability of shales is greater than this
threshold permeability, the chemical potential gradient between the pore fluid and drilling fluid reaches equilibrium faster
than that when the permeability of shales is below this threshold value. Also it has been found that when advection is taken
into account, effective radial and tangential stresses decrease around the wellbore, particularly near the wellbore wall where
the solute concentration has reached near equilibrium. |
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