Poromechanics Response of Inclined Wellbore Geometry in Chemically Active Fractured Porous Media
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 135, Issue 11
Abstract
The porochemoelastic analytical models and solutions have been used to describe the response of chemically active saturated porous media such as clays, shales, and biological tissues. To date, all existing solutions are only applicable to single-porosity and single-permeability model, which could fall short when the porous material exhibits multiporosity and/or multipermeability characteristics, such as secondary porosity or fractures. This work summarizes the general linear dual-porosity and dual-permeability porochemoelastic formulation and presents the solution of an inclined wellbore drilled in a fluid-saturated chemically active fractured formation, such as fractured shale, subjected to a three-dimensional in situ state of stress. The analytical solution to this geometry incorporates coupled matrix-fracture deformation, simultaneous fluid flows, solute transports and interporosity exchanges induced by the combined influences of stress variation, fluid pressure and solute chemical salinity gradients under isothermal conditions. The fracture system is modeled as a secondary porosity porous continuum following Biot’s formulation while using mixture theory and the pore fluid is a binary solution comprised of a solvent and a solute. Results for the transient stresses and dual pore pressure distributions due to the coupled fracture and hydrochemical effects are plotted in the vicinity of the inclined wellbore and compared with the classical porochemoelastic and poroelastic counterparts. Finally, wellbore stability analyses are carried out to demonstrate applications of the solutions to field drilling operations.
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Acknowledgments
Partial funds for this work were provided by the PoroMechanics Institute at the University of Oklahoma through the Rock Mechanics Consortium members.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 135 • Issue 11 • November 2009
Pages: 1281 - 1294
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Received: Jun 29, 2007
Accepted: Jul 1, 2009
Published online: Oct 15, 2009
Published in print: Nov 2009
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