Investigation of Stress Arching Above Depleting Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Its Effect on the Compaction Drive Mechanism

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The constant total vertical stress on the reservoir and uniaxial reservoir compaction with zero lateral strain are two main assumptions in the conventional reservoir compaction modeling. These assumptions are not considering the stress arching, which leads to a reduction in the total vertical stress and also affects the distribution of vertical and horizontal stresses. In this paper, it was tried to investigate the effects of three keys elastic parameters, including Young's modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and Biot coefficient on the reservoirs stress paths and compaction drive mechanism using numerical modeling with ABAQUS software. Based on the modeling results the reservoirs stress paths is very different from simplifying assumption in uniaxial compaction models while the total compaction of reservoir obtained using numerical modeling and uniaxial model in some cases can be equal. Also, among the three geomechanical parameters, the ratio of Young's modulus of the reservoir and surrounding rocks has a significant effect on the reservoir stress paths and compaction. The results of modeling indicate when a reservoir rock is softer than its surrounding environment, due to the arching occurrence, the total vertical stress applied to the reservoir rock reduced even to half of the initial vertical stress, which leads to the oil recovery by the compression drive mechanism will be less than 50% of the predicted value. Geology Stress path Arching coefficient Compaction drive Oil recovery ABAQUS software Figures Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure 11 Figure 12 Figure 13 Figure 14 Full Text Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 18 Jun, 2021 Read the published version in Geotechnical and Geological Engineering → Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Minor revisions 13 Mar, 2021 Reviewers invited by journal 07 Mar, 2021 Reviews received at journal 12 Feb, 2021 First submitted to journal 22 Jan, 2021 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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