Natural fractures in ultra-deep reservoirs of China: A review

L Zeng, Y Song, G Liu, X Tan, X Xu, Y Yao… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, China has made significant progress in exploring oil and gas in sandstone
and carbonate rocks with burial depths of more than 6000 m in the Tarim, Sichuan, and …

Stylolites: A review

R Toussaint, E Aharonov, D Koehn, JP Gratier… - Journal of Structural …, 2018 - Elsevier
Stylolites are ubiquitous geo-patterns observed in rocks in the upper crust, from geological
reservoirs in sedimentary rocks to deformation zones, in folds, faults, and shear zones …

Stress sensitivity of porosity and permeability under varying hydrostatic stress conditions for different carbonate rock types of the geothermal Malm reservoir in …

D Bohnsack, M Potten, S Freitag, F Einsiedl… - Geothermal …, 2021 - Springer
In geothermal reservoir systems, changes in pore pressure due to production (depletion),
injection or temperature changes result in a displacement of the effective stresses acting on …

The influence of pore geometry and orientation on the strength and stiffness of porous rock

L Griffiths, MJ Heap, T Xu, C Chen, P Baud - Journal of Structural Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
The geometry of voids in porous rock falls between two end-members: very low aspect ratio
(the ratio of the minor to the major axis) microcracks and perfectly spherical pores with an …

Sedimentological, petrophysical, and geochemical controls on deep marine unconventional tight limestone and dolostone reservoir: Insights from the Cenomanian …

K Boutaleb, R Baouche, M Sadaoui, AE Radwan - Sedimentary geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cenomanian/Turonian period is characterized by the deposition of organic-rich
and fine-grained sediments that form important source rocks and unconventional reservoir …

A new stylolite classification scheme to estimate compaction and local permeability variations

D Koehn, MP Rood, N Beaudoin, P Chung, PD Bons… - Sedimentary …, 2016 - Elsevier
We modeled the geometrical roughening of bedding-parallel, mainly layer-dominated
stylolites in order to understand their structural evolution, to present an advanced …

Influence of water on deformation and failure of gypsum rock

C Caselle, P Baud, ARL Kushnir, T Reuschlé… - Journal of Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
While water is known to significantly reduce the strength of rocks, there remains a paucity of
data on water-weakening of gypsum. Here, we quantify water-weakening in a natural …

Experimental compaction and dilation of porous rocks during triaxial creep and stress relaxation

A Sabitova, VM Yarushina, S Stanchits… - Rock Mechanics and …, 2021 - Springer
Time-dependent rock deformation affects both natural processes happening on the
geological time scale and subsurface engineering operations. We perform a series of …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in the plastic and brittle properties of Danian and Maastrichtian reservoir chalk from the North Sea

S Al Assaad, HM Nick, F Amour - … Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wellbore collapse, seafloor subsidence, and seismic events are some of the main technical
and societal issues related to the deformation of producing chalk reservoirs. The triaxial tests …