H21P:
Risk Assessment of Fluid-Driven Fracturing in Heterogeneous Geologic Media: Numerical, Experimental, and Field Observations Posters


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Session ID#: 50838

Session Description:
Fluid-driven fracturing process is widely present in many subsurface applications including, CO2 sequestration, geothermal reservoirs, oil and gas extraction as well as natural fluid-driven fracturing in tectonic or volcanic regions. Spatial heterogeneity originated from pre-existing fractures across multiple length scales may significantly affect flow and transport properties, and chemical reactions in the subsurface. These changes may in return influence the rate of transport of chemical species, induce changes in effective permeability and alter effective stress path that ultimately causes new fractures in rocks and impact the integrity of the geologic system. This session provides a forum for researchers to exchange ideas on advancing the state-of-the-art to identify the source of uncertainty and its impact on the performance of geologic media. Topics of interest include but not limited to: (i) estimating uncertainties in fluid-driven fracture paths, (ii) multi-scale, multi-physics fracture initiation and propagation in geologic media, (iii) risk assessment and management.
Primary Convener:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Yves Guglielmi, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Chairs:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Yves Guglielmi, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States
OSPA Liaison:  WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1858 Rocks: chemical properties [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
8010 Fractures and faults [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8020 Mechanics, theory, and modeling [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mechanistically Modeling of Hydraulic Fracture Propagations Under Influence of Natural Fractures (459491)
Hai Huang1, Robert K Podgorney1, Earl Mattson1 and EGS Collab Team, (1)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States
An Implicit-Interface Approach for Modeling Coupled Flow-Geomechanics and Induced Seismicity (361460)
Ehsan Haghighat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
A nonlocal damage-plasticity model for compaction band and fractures in anisotropic fluid-infiltrating crystalline rock (414847)
WaiChing Sun1, SeonHong Na2, Kun Wang2 and Eric Cushman Bryant3, (1)Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States, (2)Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, NY, United States, (3)Columiba University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States
Assessment of Diversion Fracture Paths during Large Hydraulic Fracturing in the Coal Seam (393414)
Qingxiang Dong, Shengwei Wang and Shuaifeng Lyu, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Faculty of Earth Resources, Wuhan, China
Shionohira Fault Characterization Using SIMFIP Protocol (456050)
Kazuhiro Aoki1, Yves Guglielmi2, Paul J Cook3, Takahiro Watanabe4, Yukumo Tanaka1 and Kazuyoshi Seshimo1, (1)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Department of Construction, Tokai, Japan, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, (4)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Department of construction, Tokai, Japan

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