摘要
The fracture-cave systems of carbonate reservoirs have almost stored 30% of recoverable oil and gasaround the world. However, it is still doubtful about the mechanism of hydrocarbon migration in thefracture-cave systems. In this work, deducing from the Eshelby’ solution, we derived the equation tocalculate the bulk strain of elliptic cylinder caves applied by stresses. Calculated results indicate that thebulk strain of caves negatively increases with the radius ratio of the elliptic cave axials under fixedstresses. In the case of the effective horizontal stress increasing from 30 MPa to 80 MPa, the bulk straindifference of a cave could be up to 0.5%. It may result in 0.4% of the total cave volume of fluid transportingthrough the fracture-cave systems within such a stress cycle. Since the tectonic stresses transform in acyclic way, the volumetric ratio of new-to-old fluid in a cave would increase with the number of stresscycles. As a result, we proposed that the periodic fluid flow induced by cyclic tectonic stresses could be animportant mechanism for hydrocarbon migration in the fracture-cave systems of carbonate reservoirs.
基金
This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(Grant No.2016ZX05033-001)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41572117)
Hebei GEO University(Grant No.BQ2018033).The reviewers were also thankful for their comments helping to improve the quality of our manuscript.
