MR31C:
Experimental Approaches to Deformation and Flow in Nanoporous Mudrocks I Posters


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Session ID#: 50186

Session Description:
Fine-grained, nano-porous mudrocks play a critical role globally as hydrocarbon resources, seals for nuclear waste repositories and targets for carbon sequestration. Reliably characterizing deformation and flow behavior over short and long timescales remains a significant challenge. A physical understanding of geomechanical and petrophysical properties is therefore needed for efficient assessment of mudrock behavior over time. This session aims to address: a) primary experimental challenges for reliable determination of rock properties in mudrocks, b) what we should measure, what we can measure, and how we should measure, c) experimental results illuminating fundamental deformation and fluid flow behavior, and d) new interpretation techniques.
Primary Convener:  Athma R. Bhandari, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Xiaodong Ma, ETH Zurich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Athma R. Bhandari, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Athma R. Bhandari, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xiaodong Ma, ETH Zurich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
5112 Microstructure [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5139 Transport properties [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Effective Stress Law for Permeability in Low Permeability Mudrocks (377781)
Athma R. Bhandari, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States and Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Dual pore-connectivity & wettability and fluid-accessible pathways of shale (399813)
Qinhong Hu, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, Yuxiang Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arlington, TX, United States and Kibria Md Golam, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Frictional strength and permeability variations of Opalinus Clay during shear deformation (403970)
Luis Felipe Orellana and Marie Violay, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, LEMR, Lausanne, Switzerland
Deformation Difference between Shale Caprock and Shale Reservoir Rock (416689)
Hui Du, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Mileva Radonjic, Oklahoma State University, Chemical Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States
Triaxial Strain-Rate Experiments in Smectitic Materials. Analogue Experiments for Deformation Characterization from Granular Materials to Mudrock (Shales) (458810)
Jubier Alonso Jiménez Camargo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico and Dora Carreon-Freyre, National University of Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico

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