ROCK MECHANICS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND AMBITIONS

By EMILY WILSON

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TRAP, RESERVOIR, AQUIFER AND BASIN MODELING AND SIMULATION RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODELING REFERENCES CORING AND CORE ANALYSIS CORING, DE?NITION AND APPLICATIONS TYPES OF CORING CONVENTIONAL CORING SIDEWALL CORING SPECIAL CORING TECHNIQUES CORING FLUIDS PRECAUTIONS WHILE CORING, CORE HANDLING AND CORE TRANSPORTATION ROUTINE AND SPECIAL CORE ANALYSIS POROSITY POROSITY AND POROSITY TYPES FACTORS AFFECTING POROSITY POROSITY DETERMINATION POROSITY DETERMINATION, CORE MEASUREMENT POROSITY DETERMINATION, OPEN HOLE LOGS POROSITY AVERAGING POROSITY FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATOR REFERENCE FLUID SATURATION FLUID SATURATION, IMPORTANCE AND TYPES FLUID SATURATION DETERMINATION FLUID SATURATION AVERAGING FLUID SATURATION FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATOR PERMEABILITY PERMEABILITY, DARCY’S LAW ABSOLUTE, EFECTIVE AND RELATIVE PERMEABILITY FACTORS AFFECTING PERMEABILITY PERMEABILITY DETERMINATION PERMEABILITY, LABORATORY EXPERIMENT PERMEABILITY, WELL TESTING ANALYSIS PERMEABILITY, MATHEMATICAL MODELING PERMEABILITY, CORRELATION PERMEABILITY AVARAGING PERMEABILITY FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATOR ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY DE?NITION AND TYPES STRESSES (PRESSURES) AFFECTING RESERVOIR ROCK EFFECT OF RESERVOIR DEPLETION ON PORE VOLUME ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY DETERMINATION ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY DETERMINATION, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY DETERMINATION, CORRELATION ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATOR WETTABILITY CAPILLARY PRESSURE FORCES AFFECTING TWO COTIGUOUS IMMISIBLE FLUIDS CAPILLARY PRESSURE DE?NITION AND CONCEPT CAPILLARY PRESSURE DETERMINATION POROUS PLATE EXPERIMENT (MCCULLOUGH, 1944) CENTRIFUGE EXPERIMENT (HASSLER AND BRUNNER, 1945) MERCURY INJECTION EXPERIMENT (PURCELL, 1949) CAPILLARY PRESSURE, LAB TO RFESERVOIR CONVERSION PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTION FREE WATER LEVEL, OIL WATER CONTACT AND TRANSITION ZONE CAPILLARY PRESSURE AVERAGING LEVERETTE J-FUNCTION WATER SATURATION-DEPTH PRO?LE, PSEUDO CAPILLARY PRESSURE SATURATION HEIGHT FUNCTION (SHT) RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL INITIALIZATION DRAINAGE AND IMBIBITION CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES GAS OIL CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVE-OIL RESERVOIR AND GAS CAP SATURATION DISTRIBUTION CAPILLARY MIGRATION EFFECTS OF A PRESSURE GRADIENT RELATIVE PERMEABILITY ROCK TYPING AND ROCK GROUPS ROCK PROPERTIES IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION SATURATION FUNCTIONS SATURATION FUNCTIONS (FAMILY-1) SATURATION FUNCTIONS (FAMILY-2) DRAINAGE AND IMBIBITION SATURATION FUNCTIONS SATURATION FUNCTIONS FOR WATER GAS SYSTEM (GAS RESERVOIR PROBLEMS) SATURATION FUNCTIONS’ END POINTS MIMUM WATER SATURATION (ECLIPSE: SWL) CRITICAL WATER SATURATION (ECLIPSE: SWCR) WATER SATURATION AT RESIDUAL OIL (ECLIPSE: 1?SOWCR) MAXIMUM WATER SATURATION (ECLIPSE: SWU) MINIMUM GAS SATURATION (ECLIPSE: SGL) CRITICAL GAS SATURATION (ECLIPSE: SGCR) GAS SATURATION AT RESIDUL OIL SATURATION (ECLIPSE: 1—SOGCR—SWL) MAXIMUM GAS SATURATION (ECLIPSE: SGU) VIOLATING END POINTS RULES (WHAT COULD BE THE EFFECT?) PREPARING SATURATION FUNCTIONS (AN ADOPTED METHODOLOGY) HYSTERESIS ELECTRICAL ROCK PROPERTIES