Stochastic model for migration and breakage of detrital and authigenic fines

Author:

Dang-Le Bryant,Hashemi Abolfazl,Nguyen Cuong,Loi Grace,Khazali Nastaran,Yang Yutong,Badalyan Alexander,Russell Thomas,Bedrikovetsky Pavel

Abstract

Mobilisation of attached particles during flow in rocks occurs in geo-energy processes. Particle mobilisation, their migration through rocks and pore plugging yield significant decline in permeability and well injectivity and productivity. While much is currently known about the underlying mechanisms governing the detachment of detrital particles against attracting electrostatic forces, a critical gap exists in the theoretical understanding of detachment by breakage of widely spread authigenic particles, which naturally grow on rock grains during geological times. Previous works derived micro-scale mechanical equilibrium equations for both detrital and authigenic particles, and the upscaling procedure from particle to pore and core scales for detrital fines. In this paper, for the first time we derive a stochastic model for migration and breakage of authigenic fines and authigenic–detrital mixtures. This allows for core-scale transport modelling based on the particle-scale torque balance. We introduce a novel framework for predictive stochastic detachment modelling by particle–rock bond breakage that integrates the beam theory of elastic particle deformation, strength failure criteria and viscous flow around the attached particle. The analytical expressions for stress maxima and stress diagrams for a single particle allow determining the critical failure stresses, breakage points of the beam and breakage flow velocity. The mathematical model describing lab coreflood includes the maximum retention function for both authigenic and detrital fines. The matching laboratory coreflood data under increasing velocity at micro- and core-scales achieved high matching of the experimental data by the model. High matching validates the upscaling and downscaling procedures derived.

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

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