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Contact model and numerical modelling results: “Compaction of the Groningen Gas Reservoir Sandstone: Discrete Element Modelling Using Microphysically Based Grain-Scale Interaction Laws”
Mehranpour, Mohammad Hadi
2021
Reservoir compaction, surface subsidence and induced seismicity are often associated with prolonged hydrocarbon production. Recent experiments conducted on the Groningen gas field’s Slochteren sandstone reservoir rock, at in-situ conditions, have shown that compaction involves both poro-elastic...
Data from seismic slip-pulse experiments simulating induced earthquake rupture in the Groningen gas field
Hunfeld, Luuk Bernd
2021
Rock materials show dramatic dynamic weakening in large-displacement (m), high-velocity (~1 m/s) friction experiments, providing a mechanism for the generation of large, natural earthquakes. However, whether such weakening occurs during induced M3-4 earthquakes (dm displacements) is unknown. We...
Frictional properties of simulated shale-coal fault gouges: Implications for induced seismicity in source rocks below Europe’s largest gas field
Liu, Jinfeng | Hunfeld, Luuk Bernd | Niemeijer, André Rik | Spiers, Christopher James
2019
We report 21 frictional sliding experiments performed on simulated fault gouges prepared from shale-coal mixtures. Our aim was to investigate the effects of local coal seam smearing on the frictional properties and induced seismogenic potential of faults cutting the Upper Carboniferous source...
Large-scale biaxial experiments on frictionally heterogeneous faults: Mechanical data and selected strain and image data
Buijze, Loes | Guo, Yanshuang
2020
Frictional heterogeneity within fault zones is one of the factors proposed to explain the spectrum of slow, intermediate, and fast slip behaviors exhibited by faults in nature. Numerical modeling shows how even a simplified model setup incorporating sliding on a velocity-weakening (VW) patch...
Intergranular clay films control inelastic deformation in the Groningen gas reservoir: Evidence from split-cylinder deformation tests
Pijnenburg, Ronald | Verberne, Berend Antonie | Hangx, Suzanne | Spiers, Christopher James
2019
Production of oil and gas from sandstone reservoirs leads to small elastic and inelastic strains in the reservoir, which may induce surface subsidence and seismicity. While the elastic component is easily described, the inelastic component, and any rate-sensitivity thereof remain poorly...
Frictional healing data from direct shear slide-hold-slide experiments performed on simulated fault gouges from the Groningen gas field
Hunfeld, Luuk Bernd
2020
We investigated the frictional strength recovery (healing) and subsequent reactivation and slip-weakening behaviour of simulated fault gouges derived from key stratigraphic units in the seismogenic Groningen gas field (N.E. Netherlands). Direct-shear, Slide-Hold-Slide (SHS) experiments were...
Micro-XCT images, grain size distributions and mechanical data used in: "Uniaxial compaction of sand using 4D X-ray tomography: The effect of mineralogy on grain-scale compaction mechanisms."
Van Stappen, Jeroen. F. | Hangx, Suzanne J.T.
2020
The mechanical behaviour of sand aggregates is often studied as a proxy for poorly consolidated sands and highly porous sandstones. Only recently research aimed at understanding sand deformation has started to use techniques that allow for direct observation of the in-situ grain-scale...
Stress-cycling data uniaxial compaction of quartz sand in various chemical environments
Schimmel, Mariska T.W.
2020
Decarbonisation of the energy system requires new uses of porous subsurface reservoirs, where hot porous reservoirs can be utilised as sustainable sources of heat and electricity, while depleted ones can be employed to temporary store energy or permanently store waste. However, fluid...
Large-scale biaxial experiments on gypsum-gouge faults and a bare PMMA fault: Mechanical data and selected strain and image data
Buijze, Loes
2019
Geodetic observations and large-scale laboratory experiments show that seismic instability is preceded by slow slip within a finite nucleation zone. In laboratory experiments rupture nucleation is studied mostly using bare (rock) interfaces, whereas upper crustal faults are typically filled...
Rotary Shear Experiments on Glass Bead Aggregates
Korkolis, Evangelos
2021
Constant sliding velocity (i.e. rate of rotation) friction experiments on mm-thick layers of glass beads, under room temperature and humidity conditions. Stick-slip in sheared granular aggregates is considered to be an analog for the intermittent deformation of the earth’s lithosphere via...