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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Utilização de imagem do sensor Aster para discriminação espectral de rochas carbonáticas aflorantes na região Noroeste do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Aster image analysis sensor for mineral identification for carbonate rocks in the Central and North West of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Karen Christine Henriques de Andrade 30 April 2014 (has links)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho teve como objetivo geral avaliar o potencial das imagens do sensor ASTER, utilizando a região do infravermelho de ondas curtas (SWIR), para discriminação espectral de rochas carbonáticas aflorantes na região Noroeste do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, complementando produtos existentes de mapeamento geológico. As rochas carbonáticas servem de matéria-prima para produção de cimento, que atualmente apresenta forte demanda dado o crescimento de obras civis devido à expansão da infraestrutura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Este crescimento no consumo oferece desafios às companhias produtoras, tornando-se de vital importância a identificação de novas áreas para exploração de insumos para a indústria civil. Neste sentido, o carbonato tem sofrido grande pressão com relação a sua produção pois é a principal matéria-prima utilizada na fabricação do cimento. Imagens do sensor Aster vem sendo utilizadas na área da geologia com êxito, discriminando litologias e minerais como quartzo, óxido de ferro e calcita. Na região do intervalo de ondas entre 2,235-2,285 μm e 2,295-2,365 μm , as bandas 7 e 8 do sensor ASTER na região do SWIR, mostram-se adequadas para a identificação de minerais de calcita e dolomita. Como metodologia, foram aplicadas as técnicas de razões de bandas para separação de calcários e dolomitos e para a classificação espectral, foi utilizada a técnica SAM. Tornou-se como referência para a classificação espectral amostras de áreas de rochas carbonáticas aflorantes e espectros da biblioteca espectral da USGS. As classificações espectrais obtiveram resultados significativos na discriminação espectral das áreas carbonáticas, no entanto as técnicas de razões de bandas não obtiveram resultados suficientes para a discriminação de calcários e dolomitos. Para trabalhos futuros sugere-se a realização de trabalho de campo para a coleta de espectros, através da espectrorradiometria dos afloramentos dos carbonatos. / This work had as main objective to evaluate the potential of ASTER images using the region of shortwave infrared (SWIR), for spectral discrimination of carbonate rocks outcropping in the northwestern part of the State of Rio de Janeiro region, complementing existing products geological mapping . The carbonate rocks serve as raw material for cement production, which currently presents strong demand given the growth of civil works due to the expansion of the State of Rio de Janeiro's infrastructure. This growth in consumption offers challenges to production companies, making it vitally important to identify new areas for exploration of inputs for civil industry. In this sense, the carbonate has undergone great pressure with respect to its production as it is the main raw material used in cement production. Aster images sensor is being used in the field of geology successfully discriminating lithologies and minerals such as quartz, iron oxide and calcite. In the interval between waves from 2.235 to 2.285 m and 2.295 to 2.365 μm region, the bands 7 and 8 in the ASTER SWIR region are adequate for identifying minerals calcite and dolomite. As a methodology, techniques of reasons for separation of bands of limestones and dolomites and the spectral classification were applied, the SAM technique was used. Became as reference samples for the spectral classification of areas of outcropping carbonate rocks and spectra from the USGS spectral library. The spectral classifications obtained significant results in the spectral discrimination of the carbonate areas, however the techniques of reasons bands did not achieve sufficient results for the discrimination of limestones and dolomites. For future work is suggested to conduct fieldwork to collect spectra by spectroradiometry outcrops of carbonates
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Modelagens teóricas e empíricas aplicadas à investigação da conexão entre as propriedades petrofísicas e elásticas em rochas carbonáticas / Theoretical and empirical models applied to the investigation of connection between the petrophysical and elastic properties on carbonate rocks

Abreu, Elita Selmara de 17 August 2018 (has links)
Orientadores: Sandro Guedes de Oliveira, Lúcia Duarte Dillon / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T17:53:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Abreu_ElitaSelmarade_M.pdf: 3986219 bytes, checksum: 3254aa4fe691af01904819c1fb348ada (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O principal propósito dessa dissertação é estudar modelos de meio efetivo de física de rochas que conecte as propriedades petrofísicas e as propriedades elásticas, assim como a sua aplicação na investigação dessas propriedades em rochas carbonáticas. Inicialmente será feita uma introdução a alguns modelos de física de rochas para meio efetivo, conhecidos como modelo de Voigt-Reuss-Hill, modelo de Kuster & Toksöz, modelo Diferencial de Meio Efetivo e relação de Gassmann, com objetivo de estabelecer os parâmetros que serão medidos e utilizados no desenvolver do trabalho. Após essa parte introdutória, baseado no modelo de Xu-Payne, foram realizadas uma série de análises de atributos geométricos, como a distribuição de tipos de poros, obtidas através de lâminas petrográficas com intuito de descrever a correlação entre as propriedades petrofísicas e elásticas e assim poder calibrar o modelo teórico utilizado na predição dessas propriedades. Dessa forma, o modelo calibrado passa a desempenhar um papel mais condizente com o sistema poroso da rocha permitindo uma melhor correlação entre os parâmetros elásticos e petrofísicos. Os resultados obtidos mostram que a utilização da informação de lâminas petrográficas, na parametrização do modelo, torna o método mais robusto na predição e conexão das propriedades elásticas e petrofísicas de rochas carbonáticas, tornando confiável a mudança de escala rocha-perfil, bem como possibilitando a predição qualitativa de propriedade permo-porosas a partir da velocidade da rocha / Abstract: The main purpose of this dissertation is to study rock physics effective models that connect the petrophysics and elastic properties as well as its application on the investigation of these properties on carbonate rocks. Firstly, we make an introduction to some rock physics of effective models as: Voig-Reuss-Hill, Kuster&Toksöz, Differential Effective Medium, Gassmann¿s Relation, aiming at establishing the parameters that will be measured and used latter. After this introductory part and based on the Xu-Payne model, several geometric factors analysis was done like pore types distribution, obtained by thin sections, with the intention of describing the correlation between the petrophysics and elastic properties. In this way, the model becomes more compatible with the rock porous medium, allowing a better correlation between the petrophysics and elastic parameters. Our results show that using the thin section information on the model parametrization, the predictability and connectivity of petrophysics and elastic properties applied to carbonate rocks become more robust, making trustable the upscale rock-well log and also enabling the permo-porosity properties prediction, in a qualitative way, through the velocity measurements / Mestrado / Física / Mestra em Física
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Comportement mécanique des carbonates peu poreux : étude expérimentale et modélisation micromécanique / Mechanical behavior of low-porous carbonates : experimental study and micromechanical modeling

Nicolas, Aurélien Pierre 27 November 2015 (has links)
Avec l’augmentation de la pression de confinement, le comportement mécanique des calcairespasse d’un comportement fragile à un comportement ductile. Le régime fragile estcaractérisé par une compaction élastique suivie d’une dilatance macroscopique due à despropagations de fissures. Lorsque les fissures coalescent, la rupturemacroscopique est reliéeà une chute de contrainte. Le régime ductile est caractérisé par une compaction élastiquesuivie d’une déformation macroscopique diffuse. La déformation est accommodée par uneplasticité intracristalline (dislocations, macles) et/ou une fracturation des grains. L’objectif decette thèse est d’examiner expérimentalement les paramètres influant sur le comportementmécanique des calcaires de porosité intermédiaire et de modéliser ce comportement. Lesexpériences ont été réalisées sur le calcaire de Tavel (porosité de 14.7%). / The mechanical behaviour of limestones is brittle at low confining pressure and becomesductile with the increase of the confining pressure. The brittle behaviour is characterisedby a macroscopic dilatancy due to crack propagation, leading to a stress drop when crackscoalesce at failure. The ductile behaviour is characterised by a a diffuse deformation due tointra-crystalline plasticity (dislocation movements and twinning) and microcracking. The aimof this work is to examine the influence of temperature, pore fluid, strain rate, and time onthe mechanical behaviour. Triaxial deformation experiments were performed on white Tavellimestone (porosity 14.7%). The macroscopic behaviour is then modelled.Constant strain rate triaxial deformation experiments and stress-stepping creep experimentswere performed. Elastic wave velocities were inverted in term of axial crack densities. Themechanical behaviour is brittle for constant strain rate deformation experiments performed atPc · 55 MPa. In this case, inelastic deformation is due to cracks propagation. For Pc ¸ 70 MPa,elastic compaction is followed by an inelastic compaction. Porosity collapse is due to intracrystallineplasticity and micro-cracking. After some inelastic compaction, volumetric strainturns to dilatancy because crack nucleate at dislocation pile-ups and their contribution to thestrain becomes predominant compared to plastic pore collapse. In the brittle regime, watersaturationdecreases the differential stress at the onset of crack propagation and enhancesmacroscopic dilatancy. Temperature decreases the confining pressure at the brittle-semibrittle(ductile) transition. A model describing the macroscopic behaviour is derived from (1) a crackpropagation law, (2) a plasticity law for a porous medium, and (3) a law for nucleation of newscracks due to local dislocation pile-ups. The model predicts the volumetric strain, the stresstensor, and the evolution of damage, as a function of applied deformation. Theoretical resultsare in good agreement with experimental observations.
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Carbonate rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Pretoria and Postmasburg Groups, Transvaal Supergroup

Swart, Quentin Dax 05 September 2012 (has links)
M.Sc. / Certain carbonate bearing formations in the Paleoproterozoic Pretoria Group and its Griqualand West equivalent exhibit remarkable geochemical and stable isotopic signatures. The 8'3Ccarb isotopic signatures from the Duitschland and Silverton Formations exhibit large positive excursions, which seemingly coincide with a significant increase in atmospheric oxygen between 2.4 and 2.0 Ga. The Duitschland Formation with its distinctive basal unconformity is composed primarily of limestone and dolomite units, interbedded with two compositionally different shale units and quartzite. Toward the base of the formation there is a distinct conglomeratic quartzite which forms a sequence boundary above which isotopic and geochemical signatures change dramatically. Normal marine isotopic signatures characterize the lower portion of the succession while above the sequence boundari, the carbonates are enriched in "C. This enrichment, however, appears to be the result of local processes occurring within a closed basin. Furthermore it is apparent that the Duitschland Formation (with its three distinct marker beds) is the equivalent of the Rooihoogte Formation and therefore constitutes the base of the Pretoria Group. The Mooidraai Dolomite Formation which outcrops only locally in the Northern Cape Province, is characterized by fenestral and microbially laminated dolomite. The geochemical properties are relatively homogeneous with increases in the FeO and MnO concentrations, resulting from post depositional diagenesis. The stable isotope signatures of these dolomites represent normal marine signatures. There is, however, a depletion in the 813C and 8180 signatures in the ankeritic and sideritic lithofacies, which suggests that this succession was deposited from a stratified water column with respect to the total dissolved CO2. The positive 6 13C excursion present in the carbonates of the Lucknow Formation in Griqualand West, traditionally grouped with the Olifantshoek Group can be correlated with carbonates near the top of the Silverton Formation in the Transvaal area. The latter also displays distinctly positive 6 43C values. One possibility is that if these successions were deposited in closed anoxic basins and that the isotopic anomalies are the result of local processes such as fermentive diagenesis and methanogenesis. However, the close association of the carbonates with shallow marine orthoquartzites suggests that these were deposited in an open marine system and that the positive 8 !3C values reflect a shift in the composition of the ocean water at the time of deposition of the carbonates at 2.2 Ga. Other carbonates present in the Pretoria Group, namely from the Vermont and Houtenbek Formations, display normal open marine 8' 3C values of close to zero. A systematic stratigraphic compilation of all 6 43C values available from the Transvaal Supergroup indicates that two clear-cut positive 5' 3C excursions are present. These excursions were apparently short-lived and well defined and did not occur over an extended period of time as suggested by earlier studies based on global compilations with large uncertainties in radiometric ages of deposits.
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Paleoproterozoic Mississippi Valley-Type Pb-Zn deposits of the Ghaap Group, Transvaal Supergroup in Griqualand West, South Africa

Schaefer, Markus Olaf 28 January 2009 (has links)
D.Phil. / Please refer to full text to view abstract
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Propriétés physiques et comportement mécanique des roches carbonatées microporeuses : Approche intégrée expérimentale et microstructurale / Physical properties and mecanical behavior of microporous carbonate rocks : Integrated study of the microstructural parameters and experimental approach

Regnet, Jean Baptiste 04 December 2014 (has links)
Les carbonates microporeux sont caractérisés par une importante hétérogénéité de faciès (texture, composition) qui se traduit généralement par une très grande variation des (1) propriétés physiques (porosité, perméabilité, vitesses acoustiques), et (2) du comportement mécanique. Ces hétérogénéités rendent souvent difficile les prédictions en termes de stockage géologique, de qualité de porosité ou perméabilité des réservoirs d'eau souterraine ou d'hydrocarbures lors de l'exploration ou production. Cette étude intégrée apporte de nouveaux éléments de réflexion quant aux facteurs de contrôles microstructuraux sur les propriétés physiques et mécaniques des roches carbonatées microporeuses.(1) Une centaine d'échantillons de carbonates a été prélevée tous les 2m environ le long du forage EST205 au niveau de la plate-forme oxfordienne de Meuse/Haute-Marne. Un objectif appliqué de ce travail, vise à mieux contraindre les variations verticales des propriétés pétrophysiques et pétrographiques qui régissent en grande partie les circulations aquifères actuelles dans cette formation. D'un point de vue fondamental, un résultat majeur est la mise au point d'une nouvelle méthode de rock-typing pour les réservoirs microporeux, et l'établissement d'un lien entre matrice micritique et les propriétés physiques. Les propriétés de transport (perméabilité, conductivité électrique) sont grandement influencées par la réduction ou l'augmentation progressive de la microporosité intercristalline selon le type de matrice micritique considéré. L'augmentation des vitesses d'ondes acoustiques peut être vue comme le reflet d'une cimentation progressive des particules de micrites, qui rend l'ensemble de la matrice plus rigide et cohérente. La dispersion des valeurs de vitesses est expliquée grâce à la théorie de la poroélasticité. Les calculs réalisés avec les équations de Biot-Gassmann [Biot, 1956 ; Gassmann, 1951] mettent en évidence une population de microcracks (crack porosity), qui affecte les vitesses de propagation des ondes. Enfin, une origine possible des niveaux poreux oxfordiens est une dissolution précoce des particules de micrites via la circulation d'eau météorique sous saturée par rapport à la calcite, lors de courtes phases d'émersion de la plate-forme.(2) La vitesse de propagation des ondes P dans la formation de l'Oolithe Blanche (Grainstone Oolithique, Jurassique Moyen, Basin de Paris) est très largement contrôlée par la structure de l'espace poreux (porosité annulaire ou uniforme dans les grains ; Type A) et par la présence ou l'absence d'un ciment isopaque autour des grains (Type B) (Makhloufi et al., 2013 ; Casteleyn et al., 2010, 2011). Plusieurs essais de déformation triaxiale ont été réalisées sur des échantillons de Type A et B afin d'investiguer le rôle de telles microstructures sur la réponse mécanique des roches carbonatées poreuses. Cette étude est essentielle à la compréhension générale de l'Oolithe Blanche, qui présente un fort potentiel géothermique et représente une cible potentielle pour la séquestration de CO2.Les échantillons comparés présentent des textures et faciès équivalent (porportion de ciment de blocage, granulométrie), ainsi que des propriétés pétrophysiques très similaire (porosité, perméabilité) ; afin que le paramètre microstructural soit le seul à varier.Deux comportements distincts sont mis en évidence :Type A: les échantillons avec une microporosité uniforme dans les grains ont un comportement ductile, tandis que les échantillons à porosité annulaire sont caractéristiques du domaine fragile.Type B: les échantillons avec des ciments isopaques autour des grains ont un comportement fragile. En revanche, les échantillons dépourvu de tels ciments présentent un comportement mécanique relevant plus du domaine ductile.Ces résultats montrent que les structures de porosité et les ciments jouent un rôle important sur la réponse mécanique des roches carbonatées microporeuses. / This integrated study provides significant insight into parameters controlling (1) the acoustic and reservoir properties of microporous limestone and (2) the mechanical behavior of such rocks. This work improves the knowledge of the relationships among rock physic and rock mechanic on one hand, and the microstructural content on the other hand.(1) Petrophysical properties measured from laboratory and logging tools (porosity, permeability, electrical conductivity and acoustic properties) have been coupled with thin section and SEM observations on the EST205 borehole from the Oxfordian limestone aquifer of the Eastern part of the Paris Basin. A major achievement is the establishment of the link between micrite microtexture types (particle morphology and nature of inter-crystal contacts) and the physical response. Fluid-flow properties are enhanced by the progressive augmentation of intercrystalline microporosity and associated pore throat diameter, as the coalescence of micrite particle decreases between relatively coarser tight morphologies and microporous morphologies. The slow increase of P-wave velocity can be seen as a reflection of crystal size and growing contact cementation leading to a more cohesive and stiffer micrite microtexture. By applying poroelasticity theory on our samples, we show that velocity dispersion can be a very useful tool for data discrimination in carbonates. Finally, a possible origin of high porous levels in neritic limestones is a mineralogical dissolution of carbonates through freshwater-related diagenesis during subaerial exposure time.(2) Regarding rock mechanic, conventional triaxial experiments were performed on samples from the Oolithe Blanche formation (Middle Jurassic Limestone, Paris basin) to investigate the effect of different microstructural parameter on the mechanical behavior of microporous carbonate rocks. Type A samples display two different microporosity distributions within the grains (uniform versus rimmed microporosity) and type B samples are based on the presence/absence of an isopachous cement around the ooids. This work is of primary importance since the Oolithe Blanche formation, a deep saline aquifer, is a possible target for CO2 sequestration and geothermal production in the center of the Paris Basin. Experiments were performed under saturated state with respectively two sets of experimental conditions: (1) a 5 MPa pore pressure and a 28 MPa confining pressure with a temperature of 55°C for Type A carbonates to mimic in-situ conditions in the Center of the Paris Basin; and (2) a 0.5 MPa pore pressure and a 1.5 MPa confining pressure for Type B samples. Sample types have similar facies and composition (oolithic microporous grainstone with a 500µm average grain size), and porosity ranges from 17% to 20%. Permeability values are also very similar and range from 10-2 mD to 10-1 mD.(1) Type A samples with a rimmed porosity display a typical behavior of the brittle failure regime with stress-strain curves reaching a peak (138 MPa) beyond which strain softening was recorded, and strain localization on a shear fracture. (2) Type A samples with a uniform porosity display a ductile behavior with no localization of the deformation.(2) Type B samples with isopachous cement show a brittle behavior with stress drop (16 MPa to 18 MPa) and localization on a shear fracture. When isopachous cements are absent, a more ductile type of behavior is observed. Our set of data suggests that those two microstructural parameters have a significant control on the mechanical behavior of carbonate rocks.
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Efeito da vazão nas curvas de permeabilidade relativa em regime transiente / Flow rate effect on transient relative permeability curves

Domínguez, Lucía García, 1988- 02 October 2015 (has links)
Orientador: Rosângela Barros Zanoni Lopes Moreno / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica e Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-28T12:56:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dominguez_LuciaGarcia_M.pdf: 8169227 bytes, checksum: 3b6d0e210f4dc8a2db3d9f8b9f93f6c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A capacidade de armazenamento de hidrocarbonetos no reservatório depende do tipo de rocha e da estrutura dos poros. Uma das propriedades rocha-fluido mais estudadas é a permeabilidade relativa, ou seja, a medida da resistência ao escoamento que um fluido apresenta na presença de outro. A permeabilidade relativa é essencial para a avaliação dos processos de recuperação de hidrocarbonetos e previsão do escoamento multifásico de fluidos através do reservatório. A permeabilidade relativa depende de outros parâmetros que têm sido estudados por especialistas durante os últimos anos, como saturação dos fluidos, molhabilidade, tensão interfacial, estrutura porosa, temperatura, heterogeneidades e vazão de deslocamento. Em relação ao efeito da vazão de deslocamento na permeabilidade relativa, muitas pesquisas têm sido realizadas sem conseguir um acordo. Por tanto, a principal motivação deste estudo é a falta de conformidade na literatura. O foco do trabalho é encontrar se existe dependência da permeabilidade relativa com a vazão e avaliar este efeito em óleos de diferentes viscosidades. Foram realizados quinze testes de deslocamento em regime transiente a temperatura e vazão constantes. Os experimentos de laboratório foram executados com três plugues, cortados a partir de uma amostra única de rocha carbonática e saturados com três óleos de viscosidades diferentes, respetivamente. Foram utilizadas três vazões diferentes para cada amostra, que correspondem aos valores mínimo, máximo e intermediário de acordo o critério de dos Santos et al (1997) que visa balancear as forças viscosas, capilares e gravitacionais. Estas vazões foram variadas começando pela maior e diminuindo até a menor e posteriormente revertendo o ciclo, para observar se a sequência seguida influencia nos resultados. A análise dos resultados foi realizada mediante o método de Johnson-Bossler-Naumann para calcular as permeabilidades relativas ao óleo e à água. Sob as condições dos testes realizados, observou-se que as saturações e permeabilidades dos pontos terminais bem como as curvas de permeabilidade relativa, dependem da vazão. Além disso, pode-se observar que as variações foram diferentes dependendo da viscosidade do óleo utilizado. Deste modo, o óleo de menor viscosidade sempre se comportou de modo contrário ao de maior viscosidade e a mistura dos outros dois teve um comportamento intermediário. Este comportamento tem sido atribuído, nos óleos mais viscosos, a um aumento no ângulo de contato e consequente diminuição do número capilar em resposta à vazão mais elevada. Já nos óleos menos viscosos, a vazão não altera significativamente o ângulo de contato e, portanto, o número capilar aumenta com a vazão. Estas diferenças na variação do número capilar, dependendo do óleo utilizado, podem gerar as tendências diferentes nos resultados e explicar o desacordo na literatura / Abstract: The storability of hydrocarbons in the reservoir is dependent upon the rock formation and the pore structures. One of the main important rock-fluid property is the relative permeability, a measure of the flow resistance of one fluid in the presence of another one into the rock. Relative permeability depends on other parameters which have been studied by researchers during the years like fluid properties and saturation, wettability, interfacial tension, porous structure, temperature, heterogeneity and flow rate. Many researchers have focused on flow rate influence in relative permeability curves without obtaining agreement. Therefore, the main motivation for this study is the lack of conformity in the literature. The focus of the work is to find whether there is dependence of relative permeability with the flow and evaluate this effect in oils of different viscosities. Fifteen transient displacement tests were performed at constant temperature and flow rate. The laboratory experiments were performed with three plugs, cut from a single sample of carbonate rock and saturated with three fluids of different viscosities, respectively. Three different flow rates were used for each sample, corresponding to the minimum, maximum and intermediate according to dos Santos et al criterion (1997) which aims to balance the viscous, capillary and gravitational forces. These flow rates were varied starting with the largest and decreasing to the smallest, and subsequently reversing the cycle, to see if the next sequence influences the results. Experimental results were analyzed using JBN method (Johnson-Bossler-Naumann) to calculate oil and water relative permeability curves. Under the studied circumstances, it was observed that the end point saturations and permeabilities and the relative permeability curves depend on the flow rate. Moreover, variations were different depending on the viscosity of the oil used. Thus, the lower viscosity oil will always behave in a contrary manner to the higher viscosity and the mixture of the other two had an intermediate performance. This behavior has been attributed, for more viscous oils, to an increment in contact angle and thus diminution in the capillary number in response to the higher flow. Nevertheless in lower viscous oils, the flow rate does not alter significantly the contact angle and thus the capillary number increases with flow rate. These differences in the variation of the capillary number depending on the oil used may generate the differences on the results trends and explain the disagreement in the literature / Mestrado / Reservatórios e Gestão / Mestra em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo
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[en] HYDROMECHANICAL SIMULATION OF A CARBONATE PETROLEUM RESERVOIR USING PSEUDO-COUPLING / [pt] SIMULAÇÃO HIDROMECÂNICA DE RESERVATÓRIO CARBONÁTICO DE PETRÓLEO ATRAVÉS DE PSEUDOACOPLAMENTO

FLAVIA DE OLIVEIRA LIMA FALCAO 27 June 2014 (has links)
[pt] Reservatórios carbonáticos respondem por mais de 50 por cento da produção mundial de hidrocarbonetos. No Brasil, ganharam mais importância com o descobrimento do Pré-Sal, em 2006. A principal ferramenta de previsão e gerenciamento de reservatórios é a simulação numérica que, tradicionalmente, tem na compressibilidade do poro o único parâmetro geomecânico. Normalmente é adotado apenas um valor, mantido constante, deste parâmetro para todo o reservatório. Porém, a rocha-reservatório sofre deformações durante a explotação do campo, as quais induzem redução da porosidade e permeabilidade. Enquanto o primeiro efeito não é bem representado pela compressibilidade, o segundo não sofre qualquer alteração. Além disso, cada fácies tem um comportamento tensão versus deformação diferente. Por isso a importância de se fazer modelagens acopladas de fluxo e geomecânica em que cada tipo de rocha é representado individualmente. Visando essas análises integradas, mas sem aumento do custo computacional, utiliza-se o pseudoacoplamento, o que permite que esses modelos sejam usados de forma rotineira pelos engenheiros de reservatórios. Esse tipo de acoplamento atualiza a porosidade e a permeabilidade com base em tabelas que relacionam poropressão com multiplicadores de porosidade e permeabilidade. Visando uma boa representação do comportamento da rocha-reservatório, as tabelas de pseudoacoplamento são elaboradas com base em ensaios mecânicos laboratoriais realizados com amostras do próprio campo, representativas de cada fácies. São realizadas análises comparativas utilizando modelos homogêneos e heterogêneos, variando o tipo de representação da geomecânica, que pode ser através da compressibilidade ou do pseudoacoplamento. Conhecidos os efeitos geomecânicos da compactação, a etapa final desta metodologia consiste no estudo de um modelo que visa atenuá-los. / [en] Carbonate reservoirs are responsible for over 50 per cent of world hydrocarbon production. In Brazil, they started to gain more importance after the Pre-Salt discovery, in 2006. The main method to predict and manage reservoirs is numerical simulation in which, traditionally, the only geomechanical parameter is the rock compressibility. Usually it is adopted one single value for the whole model, which is kept constant. During exploitation, though, the reservoir-rock deforms, causing porosity and permeability reduction. While the first effect is not well predicted by rock compressibility, the second is simply kept constant. Besides that, each facies has its own stress-strain behavior. That is why it is so important to model the reservoir flow coupled to geomechanics representing each rock type in a single layer. With the aim of obtaining these integrated analyses, but without additional computational cost, the pseudo-coupling is used, which lets such models to be ran on day-by-day basis by reservoir engineers. This kind of coupling updates both porosity and permeability based on tables that correlate porepressure and porosity and permeability multipliers. In order to have the mechanical behavior of the reservoir-rock well represented, the pseudo-coupling tables are elaborated based on laboratory mechanical tests with samples from the same field to be modeled. In this way, each facies represented on the model has its own table that takes to reservoir simulation the geomechanical effects through porosity and permeability variation. Comparative analyses are done using homogeneous and heterogeneous models, varying the type of geomechanical representation, through rock compressibility or pseudo-coupling. Once known the compaction geomechanical effects, it is simulated a model that tries to attenuate them.
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Integrated subsurface study on lithofacies and diagenetic controls over porosity distribution in the Upper Ordovician Trenton Limestone in Northwestern Ohio

Ahsan, Mustafa 17 May 2019 (has links)
No description available.
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ESPACIALIZAÇÃO DE FEIÇÕES CÁRSTICAS DA FORMAÇÃO FURNAS: FERRAMENTA PARA GESTÃO DO TERRITÓRIO NO MUNICÍPIO DE PONTA GROSSA (PR)

Pontes, Henrique Simão 23 April 2014 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T18:15:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henrique Pontes.pdf: 12166815 bytes, checksum: 43e10ab43df77d7ee3bcce52071a5be6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-23 / This dissertation seeks to understand the spatial distribution of major karst features in Furnas Formation sandstones (Silurian/Devonian) in the Ponta Grossa city (Paraná State). This geological unit, composed of quartz sandstone cemented mainly by kaolinite, is characterized here as a regional karst system composed of several features, such as caves, dolines, sinkholes, depressions in the terrain, kamenitza, alveolus, dissolution conduits, ruiniform reliefs, among others. In this study was investigated only the caves, furnas (collapse dolines) and depressions in the ground, because such elements of karst landscape in question directly influence the management of the territory, because occupation and land use in places of occurrence of these three relief features provide many geo-environmental risks, able to generate economic, environmental and social losses. The carstogenesis of the Furnas Formation karst system undergoes at least three moments of development, with the presence of mechanical removal processes and dissolution, mainly kaolinitic cement, being: 1) rock alteration in underground environment (phantomization, specifically the arenisation in the sandstone), formed from lithologic discontinuities (sedimentary and tectonic structures); 2) process of underground erosion in epiphreatic environment (oscillation zone of the groundwater level) and; 3) arenisation process and mechanical removal caused by the action of rainwater and river water. In total 227 karst features were studied, among them 41 caves (including 14 dolines) and 186 depressions in the terrain. There is a connection between these features because they are aligned, accompanying major structural lineaments, thus showing a peculiar spatial configuration, with intrinsic relationship between each element. With the overlap of the spatial data of caves, dolines and depressions in the terrain with the map of tectonic structures, was possible to see that there is no exclusive relationship with the occurrence of karst features of the Furnas Formation with the Depression of Vila Velha, showing that the karst occurs in sandstones, even in areas where the basement is not carbonate rocks. The map of land use showed that over fifty percent of the landscape in question presents agriculture use and pastoral use, as there is also a large portion of reforestation with exotic. The urban area has a tendency to expand on the karst system and part of the industrial zone is located the rocks of the Furnas Formation. Finally, the present work obtained a map of Environmental Karstic Zoning (EKZ), which presents six specific areas in this landscape, highlighting which are the restrictions of land use in each area. / O presente trabalho busca entender a distribuição espacial das principais feições cársticas das rochas da Formação Furnas (Siluriano/Devoniano), no município de Ponta Grossa (PR). Esta unidade geológica, composta por arenitos quartzosos cimentados principalmente por caulinita, é aqui caracterizada como um sistema cárstico regional, composto por diversas feições, como: cavernas, furnas, sumidouros, depressões no terreno, bacias de dissolução, alvéolos, dutos de dissolução, relevos ruiniformes, entre outras. Neste estudo, optou-se em estudar apenas as cavernas, furnas (dolinas de abatimento) e depressões no terreno, pelo fato que tais elementos da paisagem cárstica em questão influenciam diretamente na gestão do território, pois a ocupação e uso do solo em locais de ocorrência destas três feições do relevo proporcionam riscos geoambientais diversos, capazes de gerar perdas econômicas, ambientais e sociais. A carstogênese do Sistema Cárstico da Formação Furnas passa por pelo menos três momentos de evolução, com presença de processos de remoção mecânica e dissolução, principalmente do cimento caulinítico, sendo: 1) alteração da rocha em ambiente subterrâneo (fantomização, especificamente no arenito a arenização), formada a partir de descontinuidades litológicas (estruturas sedimentares e tectônicas); 2) processo de erosão subterrânea em ambiente epifreático (de oscilação do nível freático) e; 3) processo de remoção mecânica ocasionada pela ação das águas pluviais e fluviais. No total foram trabalhadas 227 feições, dentre elas 41 cavidades subterrâneas (sendo 14 furnas) e 186 depressões no terreno. Observa-se que há uma conexão entre estas feições, pois estão alinhadas, acompanhando grandes lineamentos, mostrando assim uma configuração espacial peculiar, com intrínseca relação entre cada elemento. Com a sobreposição dos dados da espacialização das cavernas, furnas e depressões no terreno com o mapa das estruturas tectônicas, foi possível confirmar a hipótese que atesta não haver relação de exclusividade na ocorrência das feições cársticas da Formação Furnas com a Depressão de Vila Velha, mostrando que o carste ocorre nos arenitos, mesmo em áreas onde o embasamento não é carbonático. O mapa de uso do solo mostrou que mais de cinquenta por cento do relevo em questão apresenta uso com finalidade agropastoril, como também há uma grande porção de reflorestamento com exóticas. A área urbana apresenta tendência de expansão sobre o sistema cárstico e parte da zona industrial está sobre as rochas da Formação Furnas. Por fim, o presente trabalho obteve um mapa de Zoneamento Ambiental Cárstico (ZAC), o qual apresenta seis zonas específicas no relevo em questão, apontando quais são as restrições de uso do solo em cada área.

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