Journal
JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2021.104186
Keywords
Gas transport; Apparent permeability; Klinkenberg effect; Isostatic test; Tight sandstone; Effective stress; Volumetric strain
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [392108477]
- Alexandra Amann Hilden brand
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Gas transport processes in low-permeable sandstones at elevated pore pressures involve a combination of fluid-dynamic and rock-mechanical stress effects. Permeability experiments with gas and volumetric strain measurements were used to assess the interdependency of both processes. The results showed that the modified effective stress laws and a clay-shell pore structure model were effective in describing the interrelated changes in permeability and bulk volume with respect to pore and confining pressure.
Gas transport processes in low-permeable (tight) sandstones at elevated pore pressures involve a combination of fluid-dynamic (slip flow) and poro-elastic or rock-mechanical stress (pore and bulk compressibility) effects. To assess the interdependency of both processes, permeability experiments with gas (argon) were combined with volumetric strain measurements. The flow studies were performed under controlled effective stress (10, 20 and 30 MPa) with pore and confining pressures up to 30 and 50 MPa, respectively. The results of the permeability and strain measurements could only be described by the modified effective stress laws for apparent permeability coefficients (chi = 1.25) and volumetric strain (Biot alpha = 0.7), respectively. Measured apparent permeability coefficients (similar to 10-(18) m(2)) were implemented into a permeability model considering both gas and stress effects individually. A clay-shell pore structure model was used to describe the interrelated changes in permeability and bulk volume with respect to pore and confining pressure.
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