GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 33
Sunday, 25 September 2016: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 506 (Colorado Convention Center)

T13. Fracture, Faulting, and Reactive Fluid Flow in Tight Rocks: Coupled Processes in Shale, CO2 Sequestration, and Geothermal Energy II

J. William Carey and Jason Heath, Advocates
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
FRACTURING OF SHALES AS FUNCTION OF STRESS AND ANISOTROPY
GUTIERREZ, Marte, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 308 Coolbaugh, 1012 14th St, Golden, CO 80401 and KATSUKI, Daisuke, Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 206 Marquez Hall, 1600 Arapahoe Street, Golden, CO 80401, mgutierr@mines.edu
1:50 PM
FRACTURE SHEARING IMPACT ON FLUID FLOW (Invited Presentation)
CRANDALL, Dustin1, MOORE, Johnathan2, STADELMAN, Matthew3 and GILL, Maggie2, (1)Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, 3610 Collins Ferry Road, Morgantown, WV 26507-0880, (2)AECOM, National Energy Technology Laboratory, 3610 Collins Ferry Road, Morgantown, WV 26507-0880, (3)ORISE, National Energy Technology Laboratory, 3610 Collins Ferry Road, Morgantown, WV 26507-0880, dustin.crandall@netl.doe.gov
2:05 PM
NEW APPROACHES TO RELATING THE MACROSCOPIC BEHAVIOR OF SHALES TO PORE-SCALE CONSTITUTIVE PROPERTIES
HEATH, Jason1, DEWERS, Thomas1, RINEHART, Alex2, YOON, Hongkyu1 and MOZLEY, Peter3, (1)Geomechanics, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS 0751, Albuquerque, NM 87123, (2)New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, (3)Geology, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, jeheath@sandia.gov
2:20 PM
CO2 STORAGE AND ADSORPTION KINETICS IN SHALES
JOEWONDO, Nerine1, ZHANG, Yijia1, KUMAR, Sanyog1 and PRASAD, Manika2, (1)Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, (2)Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, njoewond@mines.edu
2:35 PM
EFFECT OF SURFACTANTS ON THE RATE OF WATER IMBIBITION IN FRACTURED SHALES
DAS, Saikat1, DHIMAN, Indu2, BILHEUX, Hassina Z.2 and ELLIS, Brian R.1, (1)Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward Street, 2340 GG Brown Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125, (2)Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, saikatd@umich.edu
2:50 PM
STRESS-PERMEABILITY EFFECTS THROUGH SHEAR FRACTURES FORMED IN THE SUBSURFACE
FRASH, Luke, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D462, Los Alamos, NM 87545, CAREY, J. William, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D469, Los Alamos, NM 87545 and VISWANATHAN, Hari, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS T003, Los Alamos, NM 87545, lfrash@lanl.gov
 
3:05 PM
Break
3:20 PM
LABORATORY VISUALIZATION AND ACOUSTIC EMISSION MONITORING OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN A COMPLEX, FRACTURED MEDIUM (Invited Presentation)
NAKAGAWA, Seiji, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 74R316C, Berkeley, CA 94720 and KNEAFSEY, Timothy J., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, snakagawa@lbl.gov
3:35 PM
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMPIRICAL MODEL RELATING PERMEABILITY AND SPECIFIC STIFFNESS FOR ROUGH FRACTURES
WANG, Lichun, Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C9000, Austin, TX 78712 and CARDENAS, M. Bayani, Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C9000, Austin, TX 78712; Austin, TX 78712, wanglichun@utexas.edu
Handouts
  • GSA2016_T13_LichunWang.pptx (10.9 MB)
  • 3:50 PM
    FLUID COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS DURING HYDRAULIC FRACTURE
    MIGHANI, Saied, BOULENOUAR, Abdelhamid, MOK, Uli, EVANS, Brian and BERNABE, Yves, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Mass Ave EAPS, Cambridge, MA 02139, smighani@mit.edu
    4:05 PM
    INCREASING THE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND REDUCING THE WATER REQUIREMENTS FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
    VISWANATHAN, Hari1, CAREY, J. William2, ROUGIER, Esteban3, PORTER, Mark3, KARRA, Satish3, KANG, Qinjun4, HYMAN, Jeffrey3, MARTINEZ, Joaquin Jimenez3, LEI, Zhou3, MAKEDONSKA, Nataliia3 and FRASH, Luke5, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS T003, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (2)Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D469, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (3)Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (4)Computational Earth Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (5)Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D462, Los Alamos, NM 87545, viswana@lanl.gov
    33-11
    4:35 PM
    Withdrawn
    4:20 PM
    MULTISCALE CHARACTERISTICS OF MECHANICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES IN MANCOS SHALE
    YOON, Hongkyu1, INGRAHAM, Mathew D.1, GRIGG, Joseph2, MOZLEY, Peter2, HEATH, Jason1 and DEWERS, Thomas1, (1)Geomechanics, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS 0751, Albuquerque, NM 87123, (2)Geology, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, hyoon@sandia.gov
     
    4:50 PM
    Discussion
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