Flow and transport predictions during multi-borehole tests in fractured chalk using discrete fracture network models

Multi-borehole pumping and tracer tests on the 10 to 100-m scale were conducted in a fractured chalk aquitard in the Negev Desert, Israel. Outcrop and core fracture surveys, as well as slug tests in packed-off intervals, were carried out at this site to obtain the parameters needed for construction of a stochastic discrete fracture network (DFN). Calibration of stochastic DFNs directly to the multiple borehole test data was inadequate. Instead, two equivalent deterministic DFN flow models were used: the vertical-fractures (VF) model, consisting of only vertical fractures, and the fractures’ intersections (INT) model, consisting of vertical and horizontal fractures with enhanced transmissivity at their intersections. Both models were calibrated against the multi-borehole response of one pumping test and their predictions were tested against three other independent pumping tests. The average accuracies of all transient drawdown predictions of the VF and INT models were 65 and 66%, respectively. In contrast to this equality in average drawdown predictions of both models, the INT model predicted better important breakthrough curve features (e.g., first and peak arrival times), than the VF model. This result is in line with previously assumed channeled flow, derived from analytical analysis of these pumping and tracer tests. Ronit Nativ, deceased, may her memory be blessed.     

鲁中南地区古近系朱家沟组水文地质特征及富水模式

朱家沟组集中分布在鲁中南坳陷盆地边缘地带,为一套陆源碎屑沉积的灰质砾岩.以汶口盆地、 新汶盆地朱家沟组为研究对象,通过1:50000水文地质调查、水文地质钻探、地球物理勘探、抽水试验、水质分析等技术方法,分析其水文地质特征.研究结果表明:朱家沟组裂隙岩溶形态以溶蚀裂隙、溶孔、溶洞为主,主要发育在150 m以浅;富水性受...     

Hydromechanical behavior during constant-rate pumping tests in fractured gneiss

Deformation and fluid pressure during constant-rate pumping tests were characterized by sensitivity analyses using a theoretical model of a deformable fracture, and by conducting and analyzing field tests at a site underlain by fractured biotite gneiss in western South Carolina, USA. The sensitivity analysis indicates that displacement is a hysteretic function of fluid pressure during constant-rate pumping tests, and the signals are affected by properties of the fracture (normal stiffness, aperture, and heterogeneities in the fracture plane) and enveloping rock (elastic modulus and permeability). The field tests used a removable borehole extensometer to measure axial displacements in the pumping well. The field results are generally similar to simulations, and the hydraulic and mechanical properties obtained by inversion of the pumping test results are essentially the same as results from hydromechanical slug tests. The observed displacements early in the pumping tests are less than, whereas late in the test they are greater than predicted values assuming a uniform fracture. This difference can be explained as a consequence of preferential flow within the fracture. These results indicate that displacements in a wellbore are sensitive to details of fracture connectivity and preferential flow that are difficult to detect through the pressure signal alone.     

Ground-water investigation following a jet fuel release

A tanker truck overturned releasing about 11,350 l of aviation fuel. As two municipal supply wells were within about 396 m of the release, contaminated soil was excavated and an assessment of hydrologic conditions was completed. A recovery well (RW) and five monitoring wells were installed. Ground-water samples were collected periodically from these wells and the municipal supply wells for analysis for volatile organic compounds. Pumping tests were completed on the RW and one municipal supply well. The results of the pumping test on the RWs were used to design a remediation system to remove jet fuel components from the ground water. The pumping tests also demonstrated that there was a ground-water divide separating the spill site from the municipal supply wells. After about 7 months of remediation, samples from the RW and municipal supply wells were clean and the state issued a clean closure.     

特低渗油藏多段压裂水平井注水可行性分析

摘要：针对特低渗油藏中多段压裂水平井注水开发的可行性问题,论文采用流线模拟方法,研究了多段压裂水平井在一注一采下的生产动态特征,探讨了影响压裂水平井注水开发的主控因素。模拟结果表明：在不发生水窜的情况下,压裂水平井注水能增大单井注入量,提高采油速度和阶段采出程度。同时,交错部署裂缝,裂缝穿透比为02~04时利于注水开发。裂缝水窜增大压裂水平井注水风险,边部水窜、多条裂缝水窜,加速油井水淹,从而丧失压裂水平井注水的优势。在地质条件稳定,裂缝规模可控的条件下,可以尝试开展多段压裂水平井注水实验。研究结果可为特低渗油藏中多段压裂水平井注水提供理论支持。     

基于TOUGH2数值模拟软件的延津地区热储采灌研究

本文采用TOUGH2数值模拟软件,根据研究区对井在预设情景下运转30年的模拟结果,对河南省延津县下新近系热储层压力场、温度场进行模拟,在模型验证的基础上,对不同回灌率及不同采灌井间距工况进行模拟研究,结果显示:回灌井的回灌过程会使地下水水温降低,回灌时间越长水温降低幅度越大,影响范围也越大,根据模拟抽水井和回灌井不同间距条件下(55 m、150 m、250 m、300 m)温度场变化情况,建议区域下新近系地层地热回灌项目抽水井和回灌井间距应大于等于250m,以保证抽水井出水温度;而不同回灌率工况下分析化学场和压力场的模拟数据可以看出,回灌率越大,地热水水质、压力影响越大,基本呈线性关系。为区域地热资源回灌-开采提供示范和指导。     

某地下空间承压含水层抽水试验及成果分析

由于地下水突涌风险,地下空间在施工作业中有必要通过抽水试验确定承压含水层的水文地质参数。依据勘察报告的初步评价,基坑开挖15.5m时,场地内第⑦1层承压含水层有可能产生突涌,为确保工程安全施工,需开挖前进行承压含水层抽水试验,取得场地承压含水层水文地质参数及降水引起的沉降特征,为地下空间设计和施工提供可靠依据。本次布设抽水井、观测井、分层沉降标组、孔隙水压力观测孔及地面沉降观测点,依据抽水试验技术要求获取渗透系数、抽水影响半径等相关水文地质参数。最后,针对工程场地内承压水情况及特点进行分析,提出基坑开挖时的承压水降压建议方案。     

Managing groundwater rise: Experimental results and modelling of water pumping from a quarry lake in Milan urban area (Italy)

An innovative approach to solve the problem of lowering water table was carried out in a quarry lake south of the city of Milan (northern Italy): the project, based upon pumping out water at a rate of 1,000 L/s can be considered a strategic medium to long-term solution to hinder the rise of groundwater level interfering with underground structures (foundation, construction, subway) in urban areas. The basic idea is to pump a high groundwater rate as close as possible to the stagnation point of the piezometric depression located in the city. After a pilot-test was carried out in November 1998, experimental activities started in July 2001 and lasted one year; water withdrawal was discharged into artificial channels used in agricultural practice. Maximum drawdowns measured in the quarry lake by the monitoring network resulted in more than 5 m, and a significant drawdown was registered up to 1.5 km of distance from the quarry in the important historical site of Chiaravalle Abbey, threatened by groundwater rise. The results of this pumping activity confirm the importance of the project, its lower cost compared with traditional solutions (such as drainage by wells) and remarkable effects on the improvement of surface water quality. A groundwater model was implemented to evaluate further scenarios of discharge rate and pumping location, too.     

西安地铁穿越地裂缝的抽水试验研究

查清地裂缝水文地质情况可以为西安地铁设计和施工提供科学依据。根据西安地铁勘察工作需要,2008年7月～9月选择地裂缝穿过的西安市劳动路小学院内场地首次尝试进行跨地裂缝水文地质专项现场试验。试验内容包括试坑渗水试验、钻孔注水和抽水试验,并以1号抽水井的稳定流抽水试验为典型,研究地裂缝对地下水渗流的影响。采用带1个观测孔的稳定流潜水完整井公式、带2个观测孔的稳定流潜水完整井公式以及潜水完整井水位恢复速度计算公式等3个渗透系数计算方法,得到了地表浅层土体沿地裂缝走向和垂直于地裂缝走向的渗透系数,分析了渗透系数的差异性;最后利用MADIS有限元软件模拟场地内建筑物对地基土施加应力,探讨了建筑物对场地土体的影响。结果表明：利用上述3个公式计算,都得到沿地裂缝方向土体的渗透系数比垂直地裂缝方向的土体稍大;在同一落程中,利用潜水完整井水位恢复速度公式计算得到的渗透系数最大,利用带2个观测孔的稳定流潜水完整井公式计算得到的渗透系数次之,利用带1个观测孔的稳定流潜水完整井公式计算得到的渗透系数最小,这主要是由井损造成的;建筑物对场地土体的影响主要集中在素填土层、黄土层和古土壤层,粉质黏土层以下影响则逐渐减弱,影响深度在18 m左右;由于建筑物长期对地裂缝上盘土体施加荷载,附加应力作用使地基土固结压密,导致地裂缝上盘土体的渗透系数较下盘小。     

Regional fracture network permeability using outcrop scale measurements

Estimating the hydraulic properties of fractured aquifers is challenging due to the complexity of structural discontinuities that can generally be measured at a small scale, either in core or in outcrop, but influence groundwater flow over a range of scales. This modeling study uses fracture scanline data obtained from surface bedrock exposures to derive estimates of permeability that can be used to represent the fractured rock matrix within regional scale flow models. The model is developed using PETREL, which traditionally benefits from high resolution data sets obtained during oil and gas exploration, including for example seismic data, and borehole logging data (both lithological and geophysical). The technique consists of interpreting scanline fracture data, and using these data to generate representative Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) models for each field set. The DFN models are then upscaled to provide an effective hydraulic conductivity tensor that represents the fractured rock matrix. For each field site, the upscaled hydraulic conductivities are compared with estimates derived from pumping tests to validate the model. A hydraulic conductivity field is generated for the study region that captures the spatial variability of fracture networks in pseudo-three dimensions from scanline data. Hydraulic conductivities estimated using this approach compare well with those estimated from pumping test data. The study results suggest that such an approach may be feasible for taking small scale fracture data and upscaling these to represent the aquifer matrix hydraulic properties needed for regional groundwater modeling.     

Groundwater modeling in semiarid Central Sudan: adequacy and long-term abstraction

The present study assesses groundwater resources in the semiarid central Sudan, where 20 deep productive wells were installed to supply a major city in the region, El Obeid. The wells, which has an average 20 L/s discharge each, are taping a deep semiconfined to confined aquifer of fluvial silisiclastics deposited in the Tertiary–Pleistocene. Groundwater modeling was used as a technique to interpret the hydrologic system in arid to semiarid central Sudan and to simulate the future influence of the project on the hydrogeologic system. The simulation confirmed that steady-state flow conditions have been currently reached as indicated by consistency of computed heads. It also calibrated the values of the conductivity and recharge and ensured the sustainability of the El Obeid water supply project. A total of 3.5 × 10⁷ m³/year can be continually extracted from the deep aquifer to supply El Obeid city without endangering the groundwater resources in the region. The decline in water level will not exceed 25 m during the first 10 years, while indefinite continuous pumping will affect only the vicinity of the wells in a circle of 30 km diameter. Therefore, aquifer storage capacity and hydraulic properties encourage further groundwater exploitation. The present use of groundwater is extremely lower than the present demand, and it can potentially cover future demands without introducing significant changes to the system. The increase of pumping cost due to the decline in head subsequent to project operation was found to be minimal and of local effect.     

Monitoring artificially stimulated fluid movement in the Cretaceous Dakota aquifer,western Kansas

Aquifer properties can be evaluated by monitoring artificially stimulated fluid movements between wells, if the fluid is heated. Changes in the temperature profile recorded in observation wells indicate the flow path of the heated fluid, which in effect acts as a tracer. A fluid-flow experiment in the Cretaceous Dakota Formation at the Hodgeman County site, west-central Kansas, demonstrated the advantage of using the distributed optical-fiber temperature sensing method for monitoring transient temperature conditions in this hydrological application. The fluid flow in the aquifer was increased by producing water from a pumping well and injecting heated water in an injection well 13 m (43 ft) distant from the pumping well. The time-temperature series data obtained and compared with results from previous pumping tests point to interwell heterogeneity of the aquifer and to a zone in the sandstone aquifer of high hydraulic conductivity. However, the experiment would have allowed further clarification of aquifer heterogeneity and thermal properties if at least one observation well had been present between the injection and production wells. Electronic Publication     

开封市垃圾场污染物运移模拟与控制

在对开封市某典型垃圾场进行野外调查的基础上,应用Visual Modflow建立了该垃圾场污染场地的水流和溶质运移耦合模型并进行数值模拟预测,预测了20年后该污染场地垃圾渗滤液污染羽运移范围、途径及方式等特点。模拟了应用防渗墙和抽水井两种方式控制地下水污染的措施和方案,并利用计算机模型对污染控制的效果进行了模拟分析。模拟结果表明,模拟初期污染羽覆盖了3个抽水井,污染羽前缘距离村庄688 m。模拟20年后污染羽已经覆盖了7个抽水井,其中浓度超标井有3口,污染羽前缘距离村庄605 m。建议在加强污染物监测的同时协助开展其他的污染控制措施,进一步控制污染羽的扩散。     

Modeling approaches and strategies for data-scarce aquifers: example of the Dar es Salaam aquifer in Tanzania

Management of groundwater resources can be improved by using groundwater models to perform risk analyses and to improve development strategies, but a lack of extensive basic data often limits the implementation of sophisticated models. Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is an example of a city where increasing groundwater use in a Pleistocene aquifer is causing groundwater-related problems such as saline intrusion along the coastline, lowering of water-table levels, and contamination of pumping wells. The lack of a water-level monitoring network introduces a problem for basic data collection and model calibration and validation. As a replacement, local water-supply wells were used for measuring groundwater depth, and well-top heights were estimated from a regional digital elevation model to recalculate water depths to hydraulic heads. These were used to draw a regional piezometric map. Hydraulic parameters were estimated from short-time pumping tests in the local wells, but variation in hydraulic conductivity was attributed to uncertainty in well characteristics (information often unavailable) and not to aquifer heterogeneity. A MODFLOW model was calibrated with a homogeneous hydraulic conductivity field and a sensitivity analysis between the conductivity and aquifer recharge showed that average annual recharge will likely be in the range 80–100 mm/year.     

Evaluation of groundwater withdrawal from a mountain watershed, Colorado, USA

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the groundwater-withdrawal potential of the Fraser River watershed, a mountainous drainage system in north-central Colorado. Laboratory tests, field investigations, and numerical modeling are conducted to present a quantitative understanding of the watershed’s groundwater-flow system. Aquifer hydraulic conductivity values obtained from aquifer tests range from 1E?5 to 1E?3 m/s. Groundwater withdrawal is concentrated in channel-fill deposits of the Troublesome Formation within the Fraser basin. A steady state groundwater-flow model of the Fraser River watershed is developed and calibrated using 24 observation wells in the Fraser River valley and estimated baseflow of the Fraser River. Modeling results suggest that surface recharge is the major source of groundwater in the watershed. Groundwater exits the watershed through evapotranspiration and discharge to rivers. Transient groundwater-flow modeling evaluates future withdrawal scenarios using the hydraulic head distribution from the steady state model as the initial condition. Drawdown within Troublesome Formation aquifers from the current pumping schedule approaches 2 m. When the daily pumping rate is doubled, drawdown approaches 4 m. The radius of influence is hundreds of meters to 1 km. Pumping wells withdraw approximately 2 and 15 % of groundwater flowing through the well field for hydraulic conductivity of 1E?3 and 1E?5 m/s, respectively. This study suggests that the groundwater system at the Fraser Valley could sustain current and future withdrawals, given that the current recharge condition is maintained.     

基于野外水力试验的玄武岩渗透性及尺度效应

在金沙江溪洛渡水电站坝区玄武岩中,进行了3种水力试验,探讨玄武岩渗透性及其尺度效应。平硐渗水试验的试验尺度为1～2 m,渗透系数为10-4～101 m/d,非常离散;地下水示踪试验的尺度为70～145 m,渗透系数为10-0.5～100.5 m/d,非常集中;压水试验的试验尺度为4～7 m,渗透系数值10-2～100 m/d。试验结果显示渗透系数随着试验尺度的增加而增大,笔者认为产生尺度效应的原因在于非均质性。小尺度试验常作用在局部基质段或单条裂隙上,而大尺度试验常穿越几条大裂隙,所获得的渗透系数值要大于前者。在进行裂隙岩体地下水渗流研究时,针对不同尺度的研究对象,应选择不同尺度的野外水力试验来求取渗透系数。     

垃圾填埋场抽水试验及降水方案设计

垃圾填埋场中的渗滤液水位过高会引发一系列环境和稳定问题,工程上可用竖井抽水降低渗滤液水位。通过在填埋场现场进行抽水试验,确定垃圾土的渗透系数和抽水影响半径,在此基础上对填埋场降水的瞬态流问题进行有限元模拟,分析了抽水井口径和间距对填埋场降水的影响,提出了降水方案的设计步骤和方法。抽水试验表明,现场垃圾的渗透系数约为3.6×10-4cm/s,抽水影响半径约为20m。数值分析表明,井径的变化对于降水效果影响不大,而合理选择抽水井间距对降水十分关键。进行抽水方案设计时,应首先根据工期和降水幅度要求计算井间距,按井的出水速度选择水泵,再根据水泵确定井径,最后根据井径和过滤层形式确定钻孔尺寸并选择钻机。     

Optimal pumping from skimming wells from the Yamuna River flood plain in north India

This report examines the problem involving the pumping of groundwater from a group of 90 existing wells along the banks of the Yamuna River, northwest of Delhi (India), underlain with geologically occurring saline water. It is known that unregulated pumping will lead to upconing of saline water and therefore it is necessary to determine optimal rates and associated well locations (from an existing group of candidate wells that supply drinking water to the city of Delhi) that will minimize the total salinity. The nonlinear, non-convex problem is solved by embedding the calibrated groundwater model within a simulation-optimisation (S/O) framework. Optimisation is accomplished by using simulated annealing (SA), a search algorithm. The computational burden is primarily managed by replacing the numerical model with a surrogate simulator-artificial neural network (ANN). The model is applied to the real system to determine the optimal pumping schedule. The results of the operational model suggest that the skimming wells must be operated from optimal locations such that they are staggered in space and time to obtain the least saline water.     

基于覆岩破坏传递的导水裂缝带发育高度研究

采动影响下覆岩破坏及导水裂缝带高度对于水体下采煤、保水采煤等具有重要意义。分析了采动影响下覆岩破坏传递过程,并将其划分为传递发育阶段和终止阶段;通过理论分析建立了上覆岩层悬空完整和悬伸稳定力学模型,提出以极限悬空距和极限悬伸距为判据用于判断每层岩层破坏情况,得出了计算导水裂缝带高度理论新方法,并通过工程实例与实测值进行了对比分析。结果表明,基于覆岩破坏传递模型的导水裂缝带发育高度计算方法预计的导水裂缝带高度（158.8 m）与实测结果（150~170 m）吻合较好,验证了该理论方法的可行性。