Recent water disposal and pore pressure evolution in the Delaware Mountain Group, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, USA

Ge, Jun; Nicot, Jean‐Philippe; Hennings, Peter; Smye, Katie; Hosseini, Seyyed A.; Gao, Rong; Breton, Caroline L.

doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101041

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“…Injection wells are shown by green dots. The background color shows observed and modelled injection-related pore pressure changes in the Delaware Mountain Group ( 23 ). The red dots represent earthquakes larger than M 3.5 (see text).…”

Section: The Challenges Of Large-scale Geologic Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case, saltwater injection is triggering seismicity at the same depth as injection at very small pressure changes. The background color shows injection-related increases in pore pressure in the Bell Canyon formation of the DMG that range from about 0.1 MPa to about 1 MPa in the southern part of the Delaware Basin ( 23 ). All of the earthquakes shown are relatively small (less than M 3.5), because they appear to be occurring on faults present in only the shallow sedimentary section ( 24 ).…”

Section: The Challenges Of Large-scale Geologic Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previously published data were used for this work ( 19 , 23 , 25 ). All of the data used in this paper are in the public domain, in the citations referenced.…”

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“…The Delaware basin belongs to the Permian basin, the most productive in North America. , Take a case with two-row well development, for example, in Figure , in terms of dynamic reservoir volume (DRV) and well-to-well communication using a geochemical-based method. Wells are placed in a staggered pattern in the two rows.…”

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“…301,302 Well-to-well interaction and communication are easy to occur, 303 so the accurate development of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs needs a high-resolution fluid origin tracing technique with very fine stratigraphic intervals between 3 to 6 m. 304,305 The Delaware basin belongs to the Permian basin, 306 the most productive in North America. 307,308 Take a case with two-row well development, for example, in Figure 19, in terms of dynamic reservoir volume (DRV) and well-to-well communication using a geochemical-based method. Wells are placed in a staggered pattern in the two rows.…”

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Status and Outlook of Oil Field Chemistry-Assisted Analysis during the Energy Transition Period

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Analytical chemistry is powerful in analyzing complex mixtures of crude oil and brine subsurfaces on the basis of atomic and molecular levels. Geochemistry applies chemical principles and experiments to understand earth science and engineering problems. Crude oil's molecule structure, especially for the resin and asphaltenes, could only be understood using advanced analytical chemistry techniques. Fingerprinting geochemistry applied for conventional and unconventional reservoirs helps better identify hydrocarbon resources. Subsequently, the reservoir fluid geodynamics (RFG) discipline is promoted because of the gap between the basin modeling and reservoir simulation models with geochemistry data. Fluid migration could be elaborated from the geological time when the reservoir trap was formed to nowadays with the span of millions of years. Also, asphaltene geochemistry data could be used to delineate reservoir compartmentalization. This work reviews the state-of-art theory and technology of analytical chemistry and geochemistry applied in the upstream oil and gas industry and proposes an improvement of high-resolution chemistry power for efficient and sustainable energy development.

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Fault Reactivation in Response to Saltwater Disposal and Hydrocarbon Production for the Venus, TX, Mw 4.0 Earthquake Sequence

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Recent water disposal and pore pressure evolution in the Delaware Mountain Group, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, USA

Cited by 11 publications

References 65 publications

Meeting the challenges of large-scale carbon storage and hydrogen production

Meeting the challenges of large-scale carbon storage and hydrogen production

Status and Outlook of Oil Field Chemistry-Assisted Analysis during the Energy Transition Period

Fault Reactivation in Response to Saltwater Disposal and Hydrocarbon Production for the Venus, TX, Mw 4.0 Earthquake Sequence

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