Mechanical properties and modeling of seal-forming lithologies [electronic resource].
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Research, 1998.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- 43 pages : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Texas A & M University, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Research, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Summary
- This proposal includes: (1) a summary of research accomplished over the last three year period on the mechanical properties and modeling of shales and rocksalt, two lithologies that deform readily and form seals to major petroleum and gas reservoirs, and (2) a renewal proposal to extend both the experimental and modeling studies and to integrate the two, incorporating both rocksalt and shale flow laws to investigate the development of structural traps. The numerical modeling efforts to simulate the development of salt structures and the experimental efforts to determine a rate-dependent deformation law for shale have proceeded somewhat independently as well-determined rheologies for rocksalt were available at the outset of the project that could be incorporated into the models, whereas well-constrained rate-dependent constitutive relationships for shales were unavailable. However, both studies have been carried out with a common goal of examining their roles in the development of structural traps.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:doe/er/13711--t4
doe/er/13711--t4 - Subject(s)
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- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
03/01/1998.
"doe/er/13711--t4"
"DE98003442" - Funding Information
- FG05-87ER13711
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