cubic flow law and portable packer tests
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Cubic Flow Law and portable packer tests. J Dowd. Stokes Law. Steady state flow of an imcompressible liquid in a fracture, isothermal conditions: Stokes Law Where: : Driving Force and : Viscous Resistance Force. For flow under uniform gradient between two smooth plates - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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CUBIC FLOW LAW AND PORTABLE PACKER TESTS
J Dowd
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Steady state flow of an imcompressible liquid in a fracture, isothermal conditions: Stokes Law
Where: : Driving Force and : Viscous Resistance Force
STOKES LAW
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For flow under uniform gradient between two smooth platesNo slip conditionIntegration of Stokes Law yields:
Where parallel to flow; perpendicular to flow; velocity parallelb is aperture
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varies parabolically from 0 at edge to max in middle and the average seepage velocity is
Where K is fracture hydraulic conductivity: k k is fracture intrinsic permeability:
and , f = Lomize’s roughness coeff
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SYSTEM OF PARALLEL CRACKS
q = volume flux = Where: Thus: D; The permeability of parallel fractures is proportional to , known as the cubic flow law
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• Isolate one or more fractures with packers
• Obtain D between packers (core or tv)
• Inject fluid between packers; Interpret measured flow rate and pressure data as radial flow to obtain “effective” K and k
• Assume f = 1/12• Compute effective hydraulic
aperture:
DETERMINING B IN THE FIELD
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APERTURE/HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY/POROSITY
Fracture Spacing: 2.5m
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• Flow with permeable walls, modified Darcy’s Law:
• Where = Brinkman term, which accounts for shear near rock interface
• Brinkman term in terms of velocity:• , , • NB: cubic flow law
underestimates flux
DEVIATION FROM CUBIC LAWBRINKMAN EFFECT
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SINGLE HOLE PACKER TESTS
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QUADRUPLE PACKER
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• Two categories– Injection tests (water injected at
constant head)– Slug tests (hydraulic head
instantaneously increased or decreased)
• Standard methods of analysis assume homogeneous, isotropic conditions
• Gov eqn:
SINGLE HOLE PACKER TESTS
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FLOW APPROXIMATIONSRadial flow Prolate Spheroidal
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• Injection Tests– Transient: Rarely used because
of difficulty in accurately measuring flow
– Steady-State: Performed after injection flow rate stabilizes• Radial flow pattern
• Prolate spheroidal (ellipsoidal)
INJECTION TESTS
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• Prolate spheroidal (ellipsoidal)
Solution for a line source (L) and constant Q (Hvorslev, 1951):
Where:
INJECTION TESTS
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• Conventional (gravity) slug– Standing column open to atm– Column subject to instantaneous
step change• Pressure slug– Test interval isolated from the
atm– Head in interval increased by
injecting a small volume of fluid• Difference between the two
methods in rate of recovery
SLUG TEST
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SLUG TEST METHODS
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• Conventional method–Water must flow out of column
before head change is registered; recovery relatively slow
• Pressure-slug method– Response governed by
compressibility effects; recovery relatively fast
• Mathematical theory for both methods similar
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• Solution given by Cooper et al. (1967) and Bredehoeft and Papadopulos (1980)
Where:
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where: , , , are the zero- and first-order Bessel functions of the first and second kinds.
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TYPE CURVES