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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Stephanie Vialle, Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Qinhong Hu, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Stephanie Vialle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia, Qinhong Hu, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Stephanie Vialle, Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Production in the Barnett Shale
Rajan Gupta, Richard Stephen Middleton, James W Carey, Robert Currier, Satish Karra and Hari Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Steep Decline and Low Hydrocarbon Recovery in Fractured Shale: What and Why?
Qinhong Hu1, Troy Barber1, Zhiye Gao2, Xubo Gao3 and Robert P Ewing4, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, China, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
 
Interpreting Gas Production Decline Curves By Combining Geometry and Topology
Robert P Ewing, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States and Qinhong Hu, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
 
Estimating The CO2 Sequestration Capacity of Fractured Shale Formations Using Methane Production Rates: The Case of the Utica Shale
Zhiyuan Tao and Andres F Clarens, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Image Analysis of Proppant Performance in Pressurized Fractures
Megan M Smith1, Dustin Crandall2, Susan Carroll1, Stuart D Walsh1, Magdalena Gill2, Johnathan Moore2, Bryan Tennant2 and Roger D Aines1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Investigation of Wyoming Bentonite Hydration in Dry to Water-Saturated Supercritical CH4 and CH4/CO2 Mixtures: Implications for CO2-Enhanced Gas Production
John Loring, Christopher Thompson, Eugene S. Ilton, B. Pete McGrail and Todd Schaef, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Geochemistry, Richland, WA, United States
 
Laboratory study of mechanical and petrophysical properties of both intact and naturally fractured shale samples from the Tournemire Underground Research Laboratory
Christian David1, Audrey Bonnelye1, Alexandre Schubnel2, Pierre Henry3, Yves Guglielmi4, Claude Gout5 and Pierre Dick6, (1)University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, (2)Laboratoire de Geologie, Paris, France, (3)CEREGE - Col 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
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
Todd Schaef1, John Loring2, Eugene S. Ilton2, Casie L Davidson1, Toni Owen1, David Hoyt3, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou4, B. Pete McGrail2 and Christopher Thompson4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Geochemistry, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Pacific NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
 
Shale Fracture Analysis using the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method
Zhou Lei, James W Carey, Esteban Rougier, Earl E Knight and Hari Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Transport properties of faulted clay-rich caprock: implications for CO2 storage
Elisenda Bakker1, Suzanne Hangx2 and Christopher James Spiers2, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Slip-flow in complex porous media as determined by a multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann model
Masa Prodanovic1, Christopher James Landry2 and Peter Eichhubl2, (1)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Workflow Integrating Fracture Permeability Characterization and Multiphase Flow Modeling for CO2 Storage and Risk Assessments in Fractured Reservoirs
Guohai Jin, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Jack C Pashin, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Coupled Fracture and Flow in Shale in Hydraulic Fracturing
James W Carey, Hiroko Mori and Hari Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Shale Micromodel Experiments: Fluid Flow and Mobilization using Supercritical CO2
Mark L Porter, James W Carey and Hari Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Creep and Hysteresis Effects on the Marcellus Shale Matrix Permeability Behavior
Athma R. Bhandari1, Peter J Polito1, Peter B Flemings1 and Steven L Bryant2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Veining Failure and Hydraulic Fracturing in Shales
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
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
Hari Viswanathan1, James W Carey1, Satish Karra1, Mark L Porter1, Esteban Rougier1, Duan Zhang1, Nataliia Makedonska1, Richard Stephen Middleton1, Robert Currier1, Rajan Gupta1, Zhou Lei1, Qinjun Kang2, Daniel O'Malley3 and Jeffrey Hyman4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Quantification of Viscosity and Capillary Pressure Anomalies for Polar Liquids in 2D Hydrophilic Nano-Confinements
Shaina Alysa Kelly, Carlos Torres-Verdin and Matthew Balhoff, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Physical Properties of Granulates Used in Analogue Experiments of Caprock Failure and Sediment Remobilisation
Michael Warsitzka1, Nina Kukowski1 and Franz May2, (1)Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Jena, Germany, (2)Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
 
An efficient numerical simulation of coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical process in CO2 leakage through fractured caprocks
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
Andres F Clarens and Zhiyuan Tao, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Alteration of bentonite when contacted with supercritical CO2
Kim Jinseok, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Direct Numerical Simulation of Pore Scale Flow and Reactive Transport of CO2 in Porous Media.
Mohammad Alizadeh 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
Charles R Bryan1, Jason E Heath1, Rex Hjelm2, Mark Taylor2, Daniel Olds2 and Thomas A Dewers1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
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