The influence of confining stress and chemical alteration on conductive pathways within wellbore cement

Energy Procedia

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3571-3578

  Huerta, Nicolas J ^a,b   Bryant, Steven L ^a   Strazisar, Brian R ^b   Kutchko, Barbara G ^b   Conrad, Lauren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cement; Geologic storage; Geomechanics; Leakage; Risk; Wells

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CONFINING PRESSURES; CONFINING STRESS; CYLINDRICAL CORES; EFFECTIVE APERTURE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FIELD SCALE; FLOWTHROUGH; FRACTURE FACE; GEOLOGIC STORAGE; GEOMECHANICS; LEAKAGE; LEAKAGE RATES; MICRO ANNULUS; MODEL REACTIONS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SATURATED BRINES; STORAGE VOLUMES; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; TIME-SCALES; WELLBORE;

CEMENTS; DEGRADATION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FRACTURE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REACTION RATES; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WELLS;

CEMENT INDUSTRY;

EID: 67650118264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18766102     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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