Crushing and embedment of proppant packs under cyclic loading:An insigh to enhanced unconventional oil/gas recovery

Crushing and embedment are two critical downhole proppant degradation mechanisms that lead to a significant drop in production outputs in unconventional oil/gas stimulation projects.These persistent production drops due to the non-linear responses of proppants under reservoir conditions put the future utilization of such advanced stimulation techniques in unconventional energy extraction in doubt.The aim of this study is to address these issues by conducting a comprehensive experimental approach.According to the results,whatever the type of proppant,all proppant packs tend to undergo significant plastic deformation under the first loading cycle.Moreover,the utilization of ceramic proppants(which retain proppant pack porosity up to 75％),larger proppant sizes(which retain proppant pack porosity up to 15.2％)and higher proppant concentrations(which retain proppant pack porosity up to 29.5％)in the fracturing stimulations with higher in-situ stresses are recommended to de-escalate the critical consequences of crushing associated issues.Similarly,the selection of resin-coated proppants over ceramic and sand proppants may benefit in terms of obtaining reduced proppant embedment.In addition,selection of smaller proppant sizes and higher proppant concentrations are suggested for stimulation projects at depth with sedimentary formations and lower in-situ stresses where proppant embedment pre-dominates.Furthermore,correlation between proppant embedment with repetitive loading cycles was studied.Importantly,microstructural analysis of the proppant-embedded siltstone rock samples revealed that the initiation of secondary induced fractures.Finally,the findings of this study can greatly contribute to accurately select optimum proppant properties(proppant type,size and concentration)depending on the oil/gas reservoir char-acteristics to minimize proppant crushing and embedment effects.     

山西沁水煤田首阳山矿15#煤的稀土元素分布规律、赋存状态及其对成煤环境的指示

文章以沁水煤田长治首阳山矿15号煤为研究对象,运用电感耦合等离子体质谱(ICP-MS)和X射线荧光光谱(XRF)等方法对煤中的稀土元素进行测试和分析。探讨了15号煤中稀土元素的富集机理、配分模式、赋存状态以及成煤环境等地球化学特征。结果表明:(1)研究区煤层中的稀土元素含量均值为49.28μg/g,整体含量较低;(2) 15~#煤(除SYS15-2外)和夹矸中稀土元素均为轻稀土富集型(LREY),并且夹矸中轻稀土富集更加明显;(3)稀土元素主要赋存在黏土矿物中;(4)成煤环境整体上以弱还原环境为主,稀土元素物质来源主要为陆源碎屑。     

Oldest Asian Record of Snapping Shrimps (Malacostraca: Alpheidae) from the Kutch Basin, Western India and Associated Biota: Biostratigraphic, Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Significance

The oldest Asian record of alpheid shrimps, assigned to genus Alpheus, based on snapping claw fingertips from the Miocene Khari Nadi Formation in the Kutch Basin, western India reported herein, extends the fossil record of the family Alpheidae from Asia by ~22 million years. An early Miocene (Aquitanian) age is estimated based on the associated assemblage of calcareous nannofossils, Sphenolithus disbelemnos, Cyclicargolithus floridanus, and Reticulofenestra haqii. The co-occurring microbiota includes bony fish otolith remains, identified as “genus Gobiidarum”, isolated teeth of Dasyatis rays, Sphyrna sharks, and teleosts, ctenoid and placoid scales, ostracods, belonging to the genera Paractinocythereis, Alocopocythere, Ruggieria? Aglaiocypris, Bairdoppilata, and echinoid spines. Taken together, the microfossil assemblage and data from chemical analyses using Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, X-Ray Diffraction and Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence of host and associated lithologies suggests prevalence of a shallow (neritic) to coastal marine (intertidal) depositional paleoenvironment.     

热带气旋中的角动量输送

1.引言相对于热带气旋中心为垂直轴心所确定的绝对角动量(AAM)是分析和解释热带气旋动力学的有价值的、准守恒的工具。如果没有丰富而有效的气旋性AAM,也没有足量的AAM输送到中心以补偿所有的内部汇,气旋就不能形成或维持。所以研究气旋性角动量输入热带气旋的方式,可以提供对热带气旋起作用的那些重要的复杂机制的有     

Petrology of ultramafic to mafic cumulate rocks from the G?ksun(Kahramanmaras) ophiolite,southeast Turkey

The G?ksun(Kahramanmaras)ophiolite(GKO),cropping out in a tectonic window bounded by the Malatya metamorphic unit on both the north and south,is located in the EW-trending lower nappe zone of the southeast Anatolian orogenic belt(Turkey).It exhibits a complete oceanic lithospheric section and overlies the Middle Eocene Maden Group/Complex with a tectonic contact at its base.The ophiolitic rocks and the tectonically overlying Malatya metamorphic(continental)unit were intruded by I-type calc-alkaline Late Cretaceous granitoid(~81-84 Ma).The ultramafic to cumulates in the GKO are represented by wehrlite,plagioclase wehrlite,olivine gabbro and gabbro.The crystallization order for the cumulate rocks is as follows:olivine±chromian spinel→clinopyroxene→plagioclase.The major and trace element geochemistry as well as the mineral chemistry of the ultramafic to mafic cumulate rocks suggest that the primary magma generating the GKO is compositionally similar to that observed in the modern island-arc tholeiitic sequences.The mineral chemistry of the ultramafic to mafic cumulates indicates that they were derived from a mantle source that was previously depleted by earlier partial melting events.The highly magnesian olivine(Fo77-83),clinopyroxene(Mg#of 82-90)and the highly Ca-plagioclase(An81-89)exhibit a close similarity to those,which formed in a supra-subduction zone(SSZ)setting.The field and the geochemical evidence suggest that the GKO formed as part of a much larger sheet of oceanic lithosphere,which accreted to the base of the Tauride active continental margin,including the ispendere,K?mürhan and the Guleman ophiolites.The latter were contemporaneous and genetically/tectonically related within the same SSZ setting during the closure of the Neotethyan oceanic basin(Berit Ocean)between the Taurides to the north and the Bitlis-Pütürge massif to the south during the Late Cretaceous.     

Evidence for a Black Hole and Accretion Disk in the LINER NGC 4203

We examine the supernova remnant SNR 0540-697 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using data from the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer. The X-ray emission from this supernova remnant (SNR) had previously been hidden in the bright emission of the nearby X-ray binary LMC X-1; however, new observations with Chandra can finally reveal the SNR's structure and spectrum. We find the SNR to be a thick-shelled structure about 19 pc in diameter, with a brightened northeast region. Spectral results suggest a temperature of 0.31 keV and an X-ray luminosity (0.3-3.0 keV) of 8.4x1033 ergs s(-1). We estimate an age of 12,000-20,000 yr for this SNR, but note that this estimate does not take into account the possibility of cavity expansion or other environmental effects.     

搭建地震方法和大地测量方法所检测的慢地震之间的桥梁

最近观测到的异常地震事件——深部低频地震和颤动、甚低频地震及慢滑动事件——形成了慢震群,而这个慢震群受控于不同于普通地震的标定律。根据这个标定律,我们在日本西部的纪伊半岛下方观测到了之前未知的事件,其震源持续时间约20-200s,矩震级为3～4级。这些地震在2～8Hz的频带范围内辐射能量,直接与其地震矩率成比例,但这个比例常数比一般地震小4～5个数量级。这个地区的慢地震可能是由大量的剪切滑动事件组成的,从地震方法上看,总体上会呈现为颤动或长达200s持续时间的较长独立事件,从大地测量方法上看,是慢滑动事件。     

阿尔卑斯山脉东南部地区震动图的实时生成研究

在阿尔卑斯山脉东南部地区进行了震动图（ShakeMap）的实时生成研究。ShakeMap软件系统已经在该地区安装,并已经可以与Antelope数据采集系统获得稳定的界面,能够从波形数据中提取地面运动的参数,并且在地震发生5min内生成震动图。为了评价台站密度的影响,我们计算了2004年博韦茨地震（斯洛文尼亚西北部）的合成地震图,以及不同网格大小虚拟台站的震动图。结果表明,密集且均匀的台站分布是产生精确震动图的基本条件,目前弗留利中部地区的台站密度已经足够可靠地估计最强烈震动区域范围内的震动程度。使用特定地区的地面运动预测方程和从记录到的地面运动预测宏观地震烈度的经验关系,相关的震动图能够实时或准实时地生成。通过弱震动（2007年克劳特地震）和强震动（1998年博韦茨地震）的观测数据和ShakeMap结果的比较,证明了该模型的正确性。     

尼泊尔喜马拉雅地区的构造地势

尼泊尔喜马拉雅地区的新构造运动和地球动力学的主要特征可以由本区的构造地势和构造基础面很好地表示出来。本地区山脉结构在横向上的划分与地质学上依构造特征而划分出来的单元相一致;在纵向上,则按照构造运动形成的不同山口将山脉划分为几段。由多个推覆体板片和形成众多Si walik期山前褶皱的印度次大陆俯冲断层构成的体系展示了喜马拉雅新构造动力学的主要过程。伴随这一动力学过程,出现了Mahabharat地区向斜核部地层被挤出及推覆体露头被剥蚀、喜马拉雅地区高倾斜基础面重力不稳性、整个喜马拉雅地区花岗岩岩基呈漂浮状态等地质现象。     

含盐量对冻土强度的影响特征

Is shown that the durability of frozen salted soil is caused by concentration of porous solution formed during freezing of soil moisture