Fracture and Structural Integrity e-ISSN 1971-8993 Open access
SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019)

Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method

Author and affiliation details
  • Anastasiia Kostina Corresponding author Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences kostina@icmm.ru
  • Maxim Zhelnin
  • Oleg Plekhov
DOI
10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30
Pages
302-313
Published
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Abstract

The work is devoted to the investigation of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method. An originally proposed thermo-hydro-mechanical model was used for the evaluation of mechanical loading acting on the over-burden. The model includes mass conservation laws, the energy conservation law and the linear momentum balance. Filtration of each phase of the three-phase flow (steam, oil and water) is described by Darcy’s law. Inelastic deformations are described by the phenomenological viscoplastic model based on Drucker-Prager yield criterion.  The effect of  the porosity evolution induced by the propagation of the steam chamber within the reservoir on the oil production rate and the caprock integrity is studied. It has been shown that the oil production rate is strongly depend on the prevailing physical mechanism of the porosity evolution.  Reservoirs characterized by the volumetric strain mechanism of the porosity evolution produce slightly higher values of the mechanical loadings acting on the over-burden.

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Article history

  1. ReceivedUntil the next stage: 57 days
  2. Revision requestedUntil the next stage: 3 days
  3. RevisedUntil the next stage: 1 day
  4. AcceptedUntil the next stage: 21 days
  5. Published

How to cite

APA

Kostina, A., Zhelnin, M., & Plekhov, O. (2019). Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method. Fracture and Structural Integrity, 13(49), 302–313. https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30

IEEE

A. Kostina, M. Zhelnin, and O. Plekhov, “Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method,” Fracture and Structural Integrity, vol. 13, no. 49, pp. 302–313, 2019, doi: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30.

MLA

Kostina, Anastasiia, et al. “Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method.” Fracture and Structural Integrity, vol. 13, no. 49, 2019, pp. 302–313. https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30.

Chicago

Kostina, Anastasiia, Maxim Zhelnin, and Oleg Plekhov. 2019. “Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method.” Fracture and Structural Integrity 13 (49): 302–313. https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30.

Harvard

Kostina, A., Zhelnin, M. and Plekhov, O. (2019) ‘Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method’, Fracture and Structural Integrity, 13(49), pp. 302–313. doi: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30.

Vancouver

Kostina A, Zhelnin M, Plekhov O. Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method. Fracture and Structural Integrity. 2019;13(49):302-313. doi:10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30

BibTeX

@article{kostina2019, author = {Kostina, Anastasiia and Zhelnin, Maxim and Plekhov, Oleg}, title = {Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method}, journal = {Fracture and Structural Integrity}, year = {2019}, volume = {13}, number = {49}, pages = {302--313}, doi = {10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30}, issn = {1971-8993} }

RIS

TY - JOUR AU - Kostina, Anastasiia AU - Zhelnin, Maxim AU - Plekhov, Oleg TI - Numerical analysis of a caprock integrity during oil production by steam-assisted gravity drainage method JO - Fracture and Structural Integrity T2 - Fracture and Structural Integrity PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/25 VL - 13 IS - 49 SP - 302 EP - 313 DO - 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30 UR - https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.30 SN - 1971-8993 ER -

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