H11H:
Shale Science: Coupled Processes in Hydraulic Fracturing and CO2 Sequestration I Posters

Session ID#: 2320

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Stéphanie Vialle, Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Qinhong Hu, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Primary Convener:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Co-conveners:  Stéphanie Vialle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia, Qinhong Hu, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stéphanie Vialle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
3902 Creep and deformation [MINERAL PHYSICS]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Production in the Barnett Shale (24594)
Rajan Gupta1, Richard Middleton1, James W Carey2, Robert Currier1, Satish Karra3 and Hari Selvi Viswanathan4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
Steep Decline and Low Hydrocarbon Recovery in Fractured Shale: What and Why? (19659)
Qinhong Hu, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, Troy Barber, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Zhiye Gao, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, China, Xubo Gao, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Robert P Ewing, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
 
Interpreting Gas Production Decline Curves By Combining Geometry and Topology (8632)
Robert P Ewing, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States and Qinhong Hu, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States
 
Estimating The CO2 Sequestration Capacity of Fractured Shale Formations Using Methane Production Rates: The Case of the Utica Shale (30675)
Zhiyuan Tao, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Andres F Clarens, University of Virginia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Image Analysis of Proppant Performance in Pressurized Fractures (27498)
Megan M Smith1, Dustin Crandall2, Susan Carroll3, Stuart D Walsh3, Magdalena Gill2, Johnathan Moore2, Bryan Tennant2 and Roger D Aines3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Investigation of Wyoming Bentonite Hydration in Dry to Water-Saturated Supercritical CH4 and CH4/CO2 Mixtures: Implications for CO2-Enhanced Gas Production (18186)
John Loring1, Christopher Thompson1, Eugene S. Ilton1, B. Pete McGrail2 and Todd Schaef3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Geochemistry, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, United States
 
Laboratory study of mechanical and petrophysical properties of both intact and naturally fractured shale samples from the Tournemire Underground Research Laboratory (17281)
Christian David1, Audrey Bonnelye1, Alexandre Schubnel2, Pierre Henry3, Yves Guglielmi4, Claude Gout5 and Pierre Dick6, (1)University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure/CNRS UMR 8538, Laboratoire de Géologie, Paris, France, (3)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France, Aix-En-Provence, France, (4)Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France, (5)TOTAL - Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean Feger, Pau, France, (6)IRSN Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses cedex, France
 
Idealized Shale Sorption Isotherm Measurements to Determine Pore Volume, Pore Size Distribution, and Surface Area (27264)
Randall Holmes, Beibei Wang, Hassan Aljama, Erik Rupp and Jennifer Wilcox, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Mechanistic Processes Controlling Gas Sorption in Shale Reservoirs (31059)
Todd Schaef1, John Loring2, Eugene S. Ilton2, Casie L Davidson3, Toni Owen3, David W Hoyt4, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou5, B. Pete McGrail4 and Christopher Thompson5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Geochemistry, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
 
Shale Fracture Analysis using the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method (26808)
Zhou Lei1, James W Carey2, Esteban Rougier2, Earl E. Knight3 and Hari Selvi Viswanathan4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
Transport properties of faulted clay-rich caprock: implications for CO2 storage (23720)
Elisenda Bakker, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, Suzanne Hangx, Utrecht University, High Pressure & Temperature Laboratory, Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands and Christopher James Spiers, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Slip-flow in complex porous media as determined by a multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann model (20376)
Masa Prodanovic, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Christopher James Landry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Peter Eichhubl, HotRock, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
 
Workflow Integrating Fracture Permeability Characterization and Multiphase Flow Modeling for CO2 Storage and Risk Assessments in Fractured Reservoirs (23284)
Guohai Jin, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Jack C Pashin, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Coupled Fracture and Flow in Shale in Hydraulic Fracturing (18327)
James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Hiroko Hort, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Hari Selvi Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
Shale Micromodel Experiments: Fluid Flow and Mobilization using Supercritical CO2 (17963)
Mark L Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Hari Selvi Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
Creep and Hysteresis Effects on the Marcellus Shale Matrix Permeability Behavior (18043)
Athma R. Bhandari, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Peter J Polito, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Steven L Bryant, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Veining Failure and Hydraulic Fracturing in Shales (27269)
Saied Mighani, Carl H Sondergeld and Chandra S Rai, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
 
Characterization of Hydraulically Induced Fractures from Monitoring and Production Data Using Ensemble Kalman Filtering (31856)
Siavash Hakim Elahi and Behnam Jafarpour, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Integrated Experimental and Computational Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Use of Alternative Fracking Fluids (27705)
Hari Selvi Viswanathan1, James W Carey2, Satish Karra3, Mark L Porter4, Esteban Rougier2, Duan Zhang4, Nataliia Makedonska4, Richard Middleton4, Robert Currier4, Rajan Gupta4, Zhou Lei5, Qinjun Kang1, Daniel O'Malley6, Jeffrey Hyman4 and LANL LDRD DR Hydraulic Fracturing Team, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Quantification of Viscosity and Capillary Pressure Anomalies for Polar Liquids in 2D Hydrophilic Nano-Confinements (20562)
Shaina Alysa Kelly1, Carlos Torres-Verdin1 and Matthew Balhoff2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
 
Physical Properties of Granulates Used in Analogue Experiments of Caprock Failure and Sediment Remobilisation (22946)
Michael Warsitzka1, Nina Kukowski1 and Franz Josef May2, (1)Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Jena, Germany, (2)BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
 
An efficient numerical simulation of coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical process in CO2 leakage through fractured caprocks (13005)
Zhaoqin Huang, Philip H. Winterfeld and Yu-shu Wu, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
 
Harnessing mineral carbonation reactions to seal fractured shales and sequester carbon (30370)
Andres F Clarens, University of Virginia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Zhiyuan Tao, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Alteration of bentonite when contacted with supercritical CO2 (11932)
Kim Jinseok1, Ho Young Jo1 and Seong-Taek Yun2, (1)Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Korea University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Fluid-rock interactions in unconventional reservoirs during hydraulic fracturing: a geochemical investigation from the Powder River Basin, WY (30564)
Ryan Herz-Thyhsen, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States and John P Kaszuba, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, United States
 
Direct Numerical Simulation of Pore Scale Flow and Reactive Transport of CO2 in Porous Media. (29112)
Mohammad A. Nomeli, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Oedometric Small Angle Neutron Scattering: In-Situ Observation of Deformation Partitioning in Clay-rich Samples (30931)
Charles R Bryan1, Jason E Heath1, Rex Hjelm2, Mark Taylor2, Daniel Olds2 and Thomas A Dewers3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
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