Vertical Permeability Distribution of Reservoirs with Impermeable Barriers |
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Authors: | Christopher P Green Jonathan Ennis-King |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 430071 Wuhan, China;(2) Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, China; |
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Abstract: | The presence of impermeable horizontal barriers (such as shales) in a reservoir is known to have a significant effect on its
vertical permeability. Since calculation of an effective vertical permeability of such a reservoir is important, approximation
of the distribution of vertical permeability may also be useful for analysis of the two-phase vertical flow of buoyant fluid,
such as may occur in the subsurface injection of carbon dioxide into saline formations. In this situation, the maximum likely
vertical permeability of a reservoir with impermeable barriers, which could be estimated from the probability distribution
of the vertical permeability, is a more useful metric than an overall effective value for the vertical permeability due to
its presumed relationship to breakthrough time. In this article, we derive expressions for the mean and variance of the vertical
permeability of both two and three-dimensional reservoirs using the statistical streamline method of Begg and King (Paper
No. 13529, 1985), and calculate the probability distribution of the vertical permeability of a reservoir with impermeable
barriers. In addition, we also provide a simple statistical analysis of the presence of high vertical permeability regions
in the reservoir, which may be of importance in coarse-scale simulations of vertical migration. |
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