Maxime Jamet, Gregory Ballas, Roger Soliva, Olivier Gerbeaud, Thierry Lefebvre, Christine Leredde, Didier Loggia
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摘要
摘要本研究深入探讨了尼日尔北部 Tchirezrine II 砂岩单元这一异质储层的特征。该储层的特征描述对于在天然断裂和断层背景下进行潜在的铀原位采收(ISR)至关重要。这项研究采用了多方面的方法,包括测井数据、井眼光学成像和水文地质测试,以及基于卫星的线状分析,全面了解了这些结构及其对流体流动的影响。线状分析揭示了与尺度相关的模式,与局限于力学单元的空间均质联合网络相一致,同时也揭示了几乎与尺度无关的模式,更符合空间异质断层网络。从井眼图像中探测到了各种变形结构,包括延伸断裂、巨碎变形带和角砾岩-巨碎屑断层岩心。根据测井数据,Tchirezrine II 储层显示出与其河流背景相关的异质性孔隙度和渗透率。这些数据不同于在砂岩储层基质中获得的传统孔隙度-渗透率关系,而是与纳尔逊分类法一致,强调了变形结构对此类岩石物理特性的影响。在 E-W 向变形结构区进行了水文测验,揭示了强烈的渗透率各向异性。这种强烈的 E-W 向各向异性与观测到的 E-W 结构的存在是一致的,即与延伸性开放断裂的排水行为以及岩屑带和断层岩的密封行为是一致的。考虑到对 ISR 采矿的影响,这项研究有助于讨论断裂、断层和流体流动特性之间的相互作用。研究表明,垂直于主要渗透方向的井型可以减弱导流,从而改善浸出液与矿化基质的接触。这些结果提供了一种综合方法和砂岩天然裂缝储层(NFR)特性的多尺度表征,为天然裂缝储层生产的优化(如 ISR 开发)提供了基础。
Naturally fractured reservoir characterisation in heterogeneous sandstones: insight for uranium in situ recovery (Imouraren, Niger)
Abstract. This study delves into the characterisation of a heterogenous reservoir, the Tchirezrine II sandstone unit in northern Niger. The characterisation is crucial for potential uranium in situ recovery (ISR) in a naturally fractured and faulted context. Employing a multifaceted approach, including well log data, optical borehole imagery, and hydrogeological tests, alongside satellite-based lineament analysis, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of the structures and their impact on fluid flow. Lineament analysis reveals scale-dependent patterns, consistent with spatially homogeneous joint networks restricted to mechanical units, as well as nearly scale-invariant patterns, better corresponding to spatially heterogeneous fault networks. Various deformation structures are detected from borehole imagery, including extensional fractures, cataclastic deformation bands, and brecciated–cataclastic fault cores. Based on well log data, the Tchirezrine II reservoir displays heterogeneous porosity and permeability related to its fluvial context. These data differ from the traditional porosity–permeability relationship obtained in a sandstone reservoir matrix but are instead consistent with Nelson's classification, emphasising the impact of deformation structures on such petrophysical properties. Hydrological tests have been implemented into a zone of E–W-trending deformation structures, revealing a strong permeability anisotropy. This strong E–W anisotropy is consistent with the presence of the observed E–W structures, i.e. with a draining behaviour of extensional open fractures and a sealing behaviour of both cataclastic bands and fault rocks. Considering implications for ISR mining, this study allows the discussion of the interplay between fractures, faults, and fluid flow properties. It suggests that a well pattern perpendicular to the main permeability orientation can attenuate channelled flow, thus improving the contact of the leach solution with the mineralised matrix. These results provide an integrated approach and a multi-scale characterisation of naturally fractured reservoir (NFR) properties in sandstone, offering a basis for the optimisation of NFR production such as ISR development.
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Solid Earth (SE) is a not-for-profit journal that publishes multidisciplinary research on the composition, structure, dynamics of the Earth from the surface to the deep interior at all spatial and temporal scales. The journal invites contributions encompassing observational, experimental, and theoretical investigations in the form of short communications, research articles, method articles, review articles, and discussion and commentaries on all aspects of the solid Earth (for details see manuscript types). Being interdisciplinary in scope, SE covers the following disciplines:
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rock physics;
seismics and seismology;
critical zone science (Earth''s permeable near-surface layer);
stratigraphy, sedimentology, and palaeontology;
rock deformation, structural geology, and tectonics.