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Computational Geomechanics for Induced Seismicity and Leakage Modeling
Birendra Jha
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California
gemlab.usc.edu
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Geosystems Engineering & Multiphysics (GEM) Lab
• Induced seismicity and leakage
• Hydraulic fracturing
• Enhanced oil recovery
• Underground gas storage
Funding sources
Students and postdocs
Coupled flow and geomechanics of
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Induced seismicity
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Injectors in Fairview, OK (Yeck et al., GRL 2016)
Production and injection close to faults is inevitable
Producers in Kern River Oilfield
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Shear failure criterion:
Effective normal stress:
Friction stress:
Coulomb Failure Function:
Coulomb theory
Induced seismicity mechanism: Coulomb theory of failure
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Induced seismicity mechanisms
Tendency to slip if:
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Water
Water extraction from unconfined aquifer
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Oil, water
Hydrocarbon production from confined reservoir
tension contraction
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Fluid injection into a confined reservoir
Water, gas
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Fault slip can lead to leakage
Fluid leakage if:
Water, gas
= f (fault slip, fault compression)
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Can we develop an induced seismicity/leakage simulator based on the
coupled physics of fluid flow and fault poromechanics?
(Jha and Juanes, WRR 2014; Asaithambi and Jha, SPE 190032, 2018)
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Flow
Load
Oil, water, gas have different pressures and densities.
Force balance (quasi-static):
Fluid mass balance:
= Oil, water, gas
Governing equations
Multiphase flow and geomechanics
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Poroelasticity:
Effective stress:
Constitutive equations
Flow
Load
Darcy flux:
Multiphase flow and geomechanics
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Coupling through parameters (PDE coefficients)
Coupling through processes (PDE terms)
• Mechanical properties (Biot modulus, Biot coefficient, bulk density) are functions of fluid saturation/type
• Flow properties (porosity, permeability) are functions of stress
Flow and mechanics are coupled processes
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Computational model - Discretization
• Stable, local mass conservation (FEM-FVM)
• Single, unstructured computational grid
Pressure, saturation Displacement
Jha and Juanes, Acta Geotech. 2007
Kim, Tchelepi and Juanes, CMAME 2011
Jha and Juanes, WRR 2014
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Numerical scheme to couple flow and mechanics
• Fixed stress scheme: Efficient, unconditionally stable sequential solution scheme
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Chester et al, JGR 1993 Anderson, Tectonophy 1983 Marone, Ann. Rev. EPS, 1998
surface of discontinuity
zone of different properties
Physical model of a fault
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• Coulomb stability criterion:
• Slip weakening: fault friction decreases linearly with amount of fault slip
Fault slip
Functional model of a fault
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Fault friction coefficient
Fault slip velocity
Fault slip
(Marone, Ann. Rev. EPS 1998)
Friction evolves non-linearly
with slip leading to seismic
and aseismic slip
Rate and state friction model
Functional model of a fault
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Fault is discretized with interface finite elements.
Computational model of fault
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Coupled flow-deformation-faulting problem
Lagrange multiplier approach to solve the contact problem
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Flow
Mechanics
• Computationally efficient sequential solution • Sophisticated formulation for fault slip (Rate and State Friction) • Flow along and across fault • Viscoelastic, elastoplastic, and viscoplastic rheology. Rate and State
fault friction • Field-scale (unstructured grid, complex production-injection scenarios,
parallel computing)
Coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics simulator
Aagaard, Knepley and Williams, JGR 2013
Jha and Juanes, WRR 2014
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Can we predict the maximum magnitude induced event?
(Jha and Juanes, WRR 2014; Asaithambi and Jha, SPE 190032, 2018)
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Physical model of injection-induced seismicity
(sealing)
0 4000 Water, gas
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4000
4000 1585
1475
Aquifer domain
Geomechanical domain
0 0 x (m)
y (m)
Fault
(Jha and Juanes, WRR 2014)
Computational model
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x (m)
y (m)
z (m)
Water saturation
CO2 accumulates near the top because of buoyancy.
Pressure rises in the fault block where the injector is located.
Over-pressurization due to injection
Overpressure [MPa]
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Over-pressurization due to injection
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Fault pressure
Pressure on the fault also increases in the reservoir depth interval.
View angle for images above
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Fault slips due to over-pressurization
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Fault slips due to over-pressurization
Slip area gives magnitude of
seismicity
Slip direction gives directivity of
seismic energy released
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Depth profiles of pressure and stresses along the fault
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Different points on the fault approach failure differently
Coulomb Failure Lines
x
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Computational modeling of coupled flow and fault poromechanics is a powerful tool. It
• Identifies storage strategies that can mitigate seismicity/leakage risks and increase storage capacity
• Provides mechanistic explanation of our observations (seismicity, ground deformation, hydrocarbon recovery, storage capacity)
Conclusions
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Can we develop simpler models of induced seismicity that can account for
multiple (10+) faults?
(Hosseini et al., GRL 2018)
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Cum. Inj. Vol.
OK
KTB
CO
Time
Number of induced events not linear with the injected volume
Maximum magnitude estimations of induced earthquakes at Paradox Valley, Colorado, from cumulative injection volume and geometry of seismicity clusters, Yeck et al., GJI, 2015
(Hosseini et al., GRL 2018)
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Flow boundaries must be accounted
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A probabilistic model of induced seismicity
Number of events
Frequency of events
Probability of injection-induced seismicity
Pressure required for slip
Min and Max principal stress
(Zoback, 2010)
(Gutenberg-Richter)
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An unbounded reservoir model of Paradox Valley
(Yeck et al., GJI, 2015)
Pressure in an Infinite-acting reservoir
(Lee et al., 2003)
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Model predicts seismicity rate for the Paradox Valley data