Fault reactivation potential and stress path due to severe depletion and subsequent injection in Paleogene (Lower Tertiary) reservoirs of the Gulf of Mexico
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis applies the principles of geomechanics to model and better understand the implications of production in a new and prolific oil province in ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The larger problem at hand is to characterize the geomechanics of the Paleogene in order to understand how the change in stress can affect wellbore stability, production-related fault slip, injection-related fault slip, and reservoir deformation leading to rock failure. We determine depletion and subsequent injection reservoir stress paths, the potential for fault reactivation, and depletion-related compaction in order to aid in future reservoir management and planning.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Brown, Jeremy A |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Geophysics. |
| Primary advisor | Zoback, Mark D |
| Thesis advisor | Zoback, Mark D |
| Thesis advisor | Beroza, Gregory C. (Gregory Christian) |
| Thesis advisor | Hornby, Brian E |
| Thesis advisor | Sleep, Norman H |
| Advisor | Beroza, Gregory C. (Gregory Christian) |
| Advisor | Hornby, Brian E |
| Advisor | Sleep, Norman H |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jeremy A. Brown. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Geophysics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Jeremy Ambrose Brown
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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