Abstract Determining the influence of effective stress on rock deformation is essential for geotechnical stability analysis in oil and gas production. There is no universal effective stress coefficient for all rock properties, and different values of effective stress coefficient apply for different physical quantities (Gurevich, 2004). Although the effective stress law and its application is not new, frequently overlooked or misapplied. Hence, a novel method was proposed for measuring and calculating the effective stress coefficient in this work. Firstly, pore compressibility under different confine pressure values was measured using reservoir fluid or experimental fluid. Secondly, effective stress was calculated by comparing pore compressibility under different confine pressure and then, the range of effective stress coefficients was determined eventually. Finally, the reliability of the proposed method was validated via the stress-sensitive curves of tight sandstone core samples and by comparing the results with those of two other calculation methods for the effective stress coefficient. This work suggests that the stress-sensitive curves of the two core samples from the same location and with similar physical properties have given similar effective stress coefficient (η = 0.201) calculated using the proposed method, which indicates that the calculation is reasonable. The comparison of the proposed method with other methods also indicate that the proposed technique is reliable.


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    Title :

    Novel method for calculating the effective stress coefficient in a tight sandstone reservoir


    Contributors:
    Shen, Yinghao (author) / Luan, Guohua (author) / Zhang, Haiyong (author) / Liu, Qian (author) / Zhang, Junjing (author) / Ge, Hongkui (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-12-12


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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