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Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for SAGD Projects Considering the Effects of Anisotropy and Natural Fractures
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Ehsan Rahmati, Alireza Nouri, Vahidoddin Fattahpour, Japan Trivedi
There has been an increasing awareness of the importance of caprock integrity during Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) operations. However, mathematical tools that have been developed for caprock integrity studies have not incorporated an important characteristic of cap shales, which is...
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Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for SAGD Projects by Considering the Intrinsic Shale Anisotropy
Download2017-01-01
Ehsan Rahmati, Alireza Nouri, Vahidoddin Fattahpour, Japan Trivedi
This paper investigates the effect of anisotropic behavior of caprock shales on the caprock failure pressure in SAGD projects. Shales and mudstones exhibit strong anisotropy at the micro and macro scales. However, the anisotropic behavior has been neglected in the existing published works on...