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JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages 884-895Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2017.06.068
Keywords
Tectonic fracture; Comprehensive rupture rate; Low permeability sandstone reservoir; Block Shishen 100; Tectonic stress field
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- Key Laboratory of Coal-based CO2 Capture and Geological Storage, Jiangsu Province (China University of Mining and Technology) [2016B04]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017T100419]
- National Science and Technology Major Project [2016ZX05044]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015XKZD07]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
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Tectonic fractures are important reservoir spaces for storage of hydrocarbons in low permeability sandstone reservoirs and can significantly improve the permeability; therefore, understanding and predicting their location and intensity in reservoirs are of extreme importance for both the exploration and exploitation planning activities. In the present study, the Early Himalayan Dongying period paleotectonic stress field, the period of time when the majority of tectonic fractures generated in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China, was simulated and investigated with a three dimensional finite element (3D FE) model. Estimation of the Comprehensive Rupture Rate (CRR) and the relationship between the measured tectonic fracture densities and CRRs were undertaken to quantitatively predict the development and distribution of tectonic fractures in the Es-3(m) low permeability sandstone reservoir. The results indicated that well developed tectonic fractures were located in regions within and between fault zones, near fault tips, and the eastern parts of Block Shishen 100 and adjacent regions. Fault activities were critical to the development and distribution of tectonic fractures in the Es-3(m) reservoir of Block Shishen 100 and adjacent regions. In addition, abnormal high fluid pressures in the Es-3(m) reservoir can promote the development of tectonic fractures.
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