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Organization of the PetroBowl Regional Qualifiers are planned collaboratively with SPE International and the Regional Directors who operate within each PetroBowl Super Region. Each "super-region" will select up to five teams to represent them at the PetroBowl Championship. In addition to the teams from each region, the first and second place Chapters from the previous year's Championship are also invited to defend their title. A total of 32 places are available for the Championship. Regional Qualifiers will be a mix of physical and virtual events depending on suitability for the region.
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Numerous surface-felt earthquakes have been spatiotemporally correlated with hydraulic fracturing operations. Because large deformations occur close to hydraulic fractures (HFs), any associated fault reactivation and resulting seismicity must be evaluated within the length scale of the fracture stages and based on precise fault location relative to the simulated rock volumes. To evaluate changes in Coulomb failure stress (CFS) with injection, we conducted fully coupled poroelastic finite-element simulations using a pore-pressure cohesive zone model for the fracture and fault core in combination with a fault-fracture intersection model. The simulations quantify the dependence of CFS and fault reactivation potential on host-rock and fault properties, spacing between fault and HF, and fracturing sequence. We find that fracturing in an anisotropic in-situ stress state does not lead to fault tensile opening but rather dominant shear reactivation through a poroelastic stress disturbance over the fault core ahead of the compressed central stabilized zone. In our simulations, poroelastic stress changes significantly affect fault reactivation in all simulated scenarios of fracturing 50-200 m away from an optimally oriented normal fault. Asymmetric HF growth due to the stress-shadowing effect of adjacent HFs leads to 1.) a larger reactivated fault zone following simultaneous and sequential fracturing of multiple clusters compared to single-cluster fracturing; and 2.) larger unstable area (CFSgt;0.1) over the fault core or higher potential of fault slip following sequential fracturing compared to simultaneous fracturing. The fault reactivation area is further increased for a fault with lower conductivity and with a higher opening-mode fracture toughness of the overlying layer. To reduce the risk of fault reactivation by hydraulic fracturing under reservoir characteristics of the Barnett Shale, the Fort Worth Basin, it is recommended to 1.) conduct simultaneous fracturing instead of sequential; and 2.) to maintain a minimum distance of ~ 200 m for HF operations from known faults.
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Investigating the causes of permeability anisotropy in heterogeneous conglomeratic sandstone using multiscale digital rock
Chi, Peng (China University of Petroleum (East China), China University of Petroleum (East China)) | Sun, Jianmeng (China University of Petroleum (East China), China University of Petroleum (East China)) | Yan, Weichao (Ocean University of China, Ocean University of China) | Luo, Xin (China University of Petroleum (East China), China University of Petroleum (East China)) | Ping, Feng (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Heterogeneous conglomeratic sandstone exhibits anisotropic physical properties, rendering a comprehensive analysis of its physical processes challenging with experimental measurements. Digital rock technology provides a visual and intuitive analysis of the microphysical processes in rocks, thereby aiding in scientific inquiry. Nevertheless, the multiscale characteristics of conglomeratic sandstone cannot be fully captured by a single-scale digital rock, thus limiting its ability to characterize the pore structure. Our work introduces a proposed workflow that employs multiscale digital rock fusion to investigate permeability anisotropy in heterogeneous rock. We utilize a cycle-consistent generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) to fuse CT scans data of different resolutions, creating a large-scale, high-precision digital rock that comprehensively represents the conglomeratic sandstone pore structure. Subsequently, the digital rock is partitioned into multiple blocks, and the permeability of each block is simulated using a pore network. Finally, the total permeability of the sample is calculated by conducting an upscaling numerical simulation using the Darcy-Stokes equation. This process facilitates the analysis of the pore structure in conglomeratic sandstone and provides a step-by-step solution for permeability. From a multiscale perspective, this approach reveals that the anisotropy of permeability in conglomeratic sandstone stems from the layered distribution of grain sizes and differences in grain arrangement across different directions.
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