Shear-enhanced permeability and poroelastic deformation in unconsolidated sands

Shear-enhanced permeability and poroelastic deformation in unconsolidated sands

Heavy oil production depends on the understanding of mechanical and flow properties of unconsolidated or weakly consolidated sands under different loading paths and boundary conditions. Reconstituted bitumen-free Athabasca oil-sands samples were used to investigate the geomechanics of a steam inject...

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Main Author: Hamza, Syed Muhammad Farrukh
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
SAGD
Geomechanics laboratory experiments
SAGD lab experiments
Triaxial compression
Radial extension
Pore pressure increase
University of Texas at Austin Geomechanics
Jon Olson
SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)
Steam injection
Thermal recovery methods
Athabasca oil sands
Oil-sands
Absolute permeability
Relative permeability
Initial water saturation
Residual oil saturation
Corey type curves
End-point relative permeability
Reservoir geomechanics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6353

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