Hydromechanical reactivation of natural discontinuities: mesoscale experimental observations and DEM modeling

Tsopela, Alexandra; Donzé, Frédéric-Victor; Guglielmi, Yves; Castilla, Raymi; Gout, Claude

doi:10.1007/s11440-019-00791-0

Title: Hydromechanical reactivation of natural discontinuities: mesoscale experimental observations and DEM modeling

Abstract

Fracture interaction mechanisms and reactivation of natural discontinuities under fluid pressurization conditions can represent critical issues in risk assessment of caprock integrity. A field injection test, carried out in a damage fault zone at the decameter scale, i.e., mesoscale, has been studied using a distinct element model. Given the complex structural nature of the damage fault zone hydraulically loaded, the contribution of fracture sets on the bulk permeability has been investigated. It has been shown that their orientation for a given in situ stress field plays a major role. Based on these results, a simpler model with a fluid-driven fracture intersecting a second fracture has been set up to perform a sensitivity analysis. It is in presence of a minimum differential stress value with a minimum angle with the maximum principal stress that the second fracture could be both, hydraulically and mechanically reactivated. Results also showed that in the vicinity of the fluid-driven fracture, a natural fracture will offer contrasted hydromechanical responses on each side of the intersection depending on the stress conditions and its orientation with respect to the stress field. In this case, we show that a hydromechanical decoupling can occur along the same plane. These results providemore »« less

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Tsopela, Alexandra ^[1];

^[1]; Guglielmi, Yves ^[2]; Castilla, Raymi ^[3]; Gout, Claude ^[3]

Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc (France)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Earth and Environmental Science Area
Jean Feger Scientific and Technical Center, Pau (France)

Publication Date:: Mon Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1572851

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Acta Geotechnica

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1861-1125

Publisher:: Springer

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 58 GEOSCIENCES

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                    Tsopela, Alexandra, Donzé, Frédéric-Victor, Guglielmi, Yves, Castilla, Raymi, and Gout, Claude. Hydromechanical reactivation of natural discontinuities: mesoscale experimental observations and DEM modeling.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Tsopela, Alexandra, Donzé, Frédéric-Victor, Guglielmi, Yves, Castilla, Raymi, & Gout, Claude. Hydromechanical reactivation of natural discontinuities: mesoscale experimental observations and DEM modeling.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-019-00791-0

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                    Tsopela, Alexandra, Donzé, Frédéric-Victor, Guglielmi, Yves, Castilla, Raymi, and Gout, Claude. Mon .  
"Hydromechanical reactivation of natural discontinuities: mesoscale experimental observations and DEM modeling".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-019-00791-0.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1572851.

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  title        = {Hydromechanical reactivation of natural discontinuities: mesoscale experimental observations and DEM modeling},

  author       = {Tsopela, Alexandra and Donzé, Frédéric-Victor and Guglielmi, Yves and Castilla, Raymi and Gout, Claude},

  abstractNote = {Fracture interaction mechanisms and reactivation of natural discontinuities under fluid pressurization conditions can represent critical issues in risk assessment of caprock integrity. A field injection test, carried out in a damage fault zone at the decameter scale, i.e., mesoscale, has been studied using a distinct element model. Given the complex structural nature of the damage fault zone hydraulically loaded, the contribution of fracture sets on the bulk permeability has been investigated. It has been shown that their orientation for a given in situ stress field plays a major role. Based on these results, a simpler model with a fluid-driven fracture intersecting a second fracture has been set up to perform a sensitivity analysis. It is in presence of a minimum differential stress value with a minimum angle with the maximum principal stress that the second fracture could be both, hydraulically and mechanically reactivated. Results also showed that in the vicinity of the fluid-driven fracture, a natural fracture will offer contrasted hydromechanical responses on each side of the intersection depending on the stress conditions and its orientation with respect to the stress field. In this case, we show that a hydromechanical decoupling can occur along the same plane. These results provide insights into fracture-controlled permeability of fault zones depending on the properties of the fractures and their hydromechanical interactions for a given in situ stress field.},

  doi          = {10.1007/s11440-019-00791-0},

  journal      = {Acta Geotechnica},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 14,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Mon Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

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Influence of Geologic Discontinuities on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation (includes associated papers 17011 and 17074 ) journal, February 1987

Numerical simulation of interaction between hydraulic and natural fractures in discontinuous media journal, June 2014

Influence of fracture scale heterogeneity on the flow properties of three-dimensional discrete fracture networks (DFN): 3D FRACTURE NETWORK PERMEABILITY journal, November 2012

Structural permeability of fluid-driven fault-fracture meshes journal, August 1996

Analysis of multi-factor coupling effect on hydraulic fracture network in shale reservoirs journal, March 2015

Fluid flow along potentially active faults in crystalline rock journal, January 1995

Geomechanical behavior of the reservoir and caprock system at the In Salah CO2 storage project journal, May 2014

Gravitational stresses in anisotropic rock masses journal, February 1987

A discrete element model to link the microseismic energies recorded in caprock to geomechanics journal, October 2016

ISRM Suggested Method for Step-Rate Injection Method for Fracture In-Situ Properties (SIMFIP): Using a 3-Components Borehole Deformation Sensor journal, December 2013

How faulting keeps the crust strong journal, May 2000

Modeling hydraulic fracturing in jointed shale formation with the use of fully coupled discrete element method journal, July 2019

Sensitivity of the Seismic Moment Released During Fluid Injection to Fault Hydromechanical Properties and Background Stress journal, April 2021

Hydraulic stimulation of natural fractures as revealed by induced microearthquakes, Carthage Cotton Valley gas field, east Texas
journal, March 2003

Compressive and tensile failure at high fluid pressure where preexisting fractures have cohesive strength, with application to the San Andreas Fault
journal, November 1996

Unstable slippage across a fault that separates elastic media of different elastic constants
journal, March 1980

Seismic and aseismic motions generated by fluid injections
journal, March 2016

Coupled Numerical Evaluations of the Geomechanical Interactions Between a Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation and a Natural Fracture System in Shale Formations
journal, March 2013

Application of distinct element methods to simulation of hydraulic fracturing in naturally fractured reservoirs
journal, January 2016

The role of rock joint frictional strength in the containment of fracture propagation
journal, December 2016

Seismicity triggered by fluid injection-induced aseismic slip
journal, June 2015

Structural and petrophysical evolution of extensional fault zones in low-porosity, poorly lithified sandstones of the Barreiras Formation, NE Brazil
journal, November 2010

Stress-dependent permeability of fractured rock masses: a numerical study
journal, October 2004

Fault structure, stress, or pressure control of the seismicity in shale? Insights from a controlled experiment of fluid-induced fault reactivation: Seismicity Controlling Factors in Shale
journal, June 2016

Seismic velocity changes associated with aseismic deformations of a fault stimulated by fluid injection: Seismic Speed Changes During Fault Slip
journal, September 2016

Stress-dependent permeability of a de-mineralised fracture in shale
journal, September 2000

Discrete Element Modeling of Stick-Slip Instability and Induced Microseismicity
journal, February 2015

The study on mechanics of hydraulic fracture propagation direction in shale and numerical simulation
journal, December 2017

High-angle reverse faults, fluid-pressure cycling, and mesothermal gold-quartz deposits
journal, January 1988

Faulting processes at high fluid pressures: An example of fault valve behavior from the Wattle Gully Fault, Victoria, Australia
journal, July 1995

How faulting keeps the crust strong
journal, January 2000

Influence of hydromechanical heterogeneities of fault zones on earthquake ruptures: Fault hydromechanics and earthquake ruptures
journal, March 2011

Geomechanical effects on CO2 leakage through fault zones during large-scale underground injection
journal, January 2014

Aseismic Motions Drive a Sparse Seismicity During Fluid Injections Into a Fractured Zone in a Carbonate Reservoir: Injection-Induced (A)Seismic Motions
journal, October 2017

Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review
journal, August 2002

Fluid regimes, fault-valve behavior and formation of gold-quartz veins — The Morro do Ouro Mine, Ribeira Belt, Brazil
journal, January 2014

Hydromechanical modelling of pulse tests that measure fluid pressure and fracture normal displacement at the Coaraze Laboratory site, France
journal, October 2006

Desaturation and structure relationships around drifts excavated in the well-compacted Tournemire's argillite (Aveyron, France)
journal, March 2007

In situ observations on the coupling between hydraulic diffusivity and displacements during fault reactivation in shales: PERMEABILITY OF AN ACTIVATED SHALE FAULT
journal, November 2015

Earthquake faulting as a structural process
journal, January 1989

Flow channeling in a single fracture induced by shear displacement
journal, October 2006

Effect of shear displacement on the hydraulic conductivity of a fracture
journal, April 2010

Hydraulic Fracture Offsetting in Naturally Fractures Reservoirs: Quantifying a Long-Recognized Process
conference, April 2013

Geochemical characterization and modelling of the Toarcian/Domerian porewater at the Tournemire underground research laboratory
journal, July 2012

Impact of Partially Cemented and Non-persistent Natural Fractures on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation
journal, September 2016

Fracture transmissivity as a function of normal and shear stress: First results in Opalinus Clay
journal, January 2011

Validity of Cubic Law for fluid flow in a deformable rock fracture
journal, December 1980

Propagation of Hydraulically and Dynamically Induced Fractures in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
conference, April 2013

Hydrogeologic properties of a thrust fault within the Oregon Accretionary Prism
journal, October 1995

Controls on CO 2 storage security in natural reservoirs and implications for CO 2 storage site selection
journal, August 2016

In situ and laboratory investigations of fluid flow through an argillaceous formation at different scales of space and time, Tournemire tunnel, southern France
journal, February 2001

Analysis of fracture propagation behavior and fracture geometry using a tri-axial fracturing system in naturally fractured reservoirs
journal, October 2008

Impact of layer thickness and well orientation on caprock integrity for geologic carbon storage
journal, July 2017

Influence of Geologic Discontinuities on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation (includes associated papers 17011 and 17074 )
journal, February 1987

Numerical simulation of interaction between hydraulic and natural fractures in discontinuous media
journal, June 2014

Influence of fracture scale heterogeneity on the flow properties of three-dimensional discrete fracture networks (DFN): 3D FRACTURE NETWORK PERMEABILITY
journal, November 2012

Structural permeability of fluid-driven fault-fracture meshes
journal, August 1996

Analysis of multi-factor coupling effect on hydraulic fracture network in shale reservoirs
journal, March 2015

Fluid flow along potentially active faults in crystalline rock
journal, January 1995

Geomechanical behavior of the reservoir and caprock system at the In Salah CO2 storage project
journal, May 2014

Gravitational stresses in anisotropic rock masses
journal, February 1987

A discrete element model to link the microseismic energies recorded in caprock to geomechanics
journal, October 2016

ISRM Suggested Method for Step-Rate Injection Method for Fracture In-Situ Properties (SIMFIP): Using a 3-Components Borehole Deformation Sensor
journal, December 2013

How faulting keeps the crust strong
journal, May 2000

Modeling hydraulic fracturing in jointed shale formation with the use of fully coupled discrete element method
journal, July 2019

Sensitivity of the Seismic Moment Released During Fluid Injection to Fault Hydromechanical Properties and Background Stress
journal, April 2021