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Mechanical and microstructural data used in the article Pijnenburg et al., Deformation behaviour of sandstones from the seismogenic Groningen gas field: Role of inelastic versus elastic mechanisms

Pijnenburg, Ronald | Verberne, Berend | Hangx, Suzanne | Spiers, Christopher

GFZ Data Services

(2015)

Hydrocarbon or groundwater production from sandstone reservoirs can result in surface subsidence and induced seismicity. Subsidence results from combined elastic and inelastic compaction of the reservoir due to a change in the effective stress state upon fluid extraction. The magnitude of elastic compaction can be accurately described using poroelasticity theory. However inelastic or time-dependent compaction is poorly constrained. We use sandstones recovered by the field operator (NAM) from the Slochteren gas reservoir (Groningen, NE Netherlands) to study the importance of elastic versus inelastic deformation processes upon simulated pore pressure depletion. We conducted conventional triaxial tests under true in-situ conditions of pressure and temperature. To investigate the effect of applied differential stress (σ1 – σ3 = 0 - 50 MPa) and initial sample porosity (φi = 12 – 25%) on instantaneous and time-dependent inelastic deformation, we imposed multiple stages of axial loading and relaxation. The obtained data include: 1) Mechanical data obtained in conventional triaxial compression experiments performed on reservoir sandstone. In these experiments, we imposed multiple stages of active loading, each followed by 24 hours of stress relaxation. 2) Microstructural data obtained on undeformed and deformed samples.

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
Groningen gas field
reservoir
sandstone
compressibility
microstructure
strength
crack
creep
EPOS
multiscale laboratories
rock and melt physical properties
SEDIMENTARY ROCK PHYSICALOPTICAL PROPERTIES
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
EARTHQUAKES
SEDIMENTS
NATURAL GAS
EARTH SCIENCE
Triaxial
sediment
sand
sandsizesediment
Density
Viscosity
Elasticity
Strength
Strain gauge

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
sandstone
axial compressibility
bulk compressibility
intragranular cracking
intragranular crack
time-dependent mechanism
unconsolidated sediment
sand
viscosity
viscosity
elasticity
elasticity

MSL enriched keywords
sedimentary rock
sandstone
Measured property
elasticity
axial compressibility
bulk compressibility
Inferred deformation behavior
microphysical deformation mechanism
intragranular cracking
Analyzed feature
deformation microstructure
brittle microstructure
intragranular crack
time-dependent mechanism
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
sand
viscosity
Measured property
viscosity
elasticity
deformation behaviour
inelastic deformation
antropogenic setting
gas field
subsurface energy production
hydrocarbon energy production
gas field
wacke
Slochteren sandstone
Apparatus
deformation testing
compression testing
triaxial compression apparatus
conventional triaxial apparatus
strain
strain partitioning
stress relaxation
pore fluid pressure
porosity
poroelastic deformation
energy partitioning
strain
stress relaxation
porosity
Induced seismicity
surface subsidence
induced seismicity
surface subsidence

MSL original sub domains

rock and melt physics

MSL enriched sub domains i

rock and melt physics
microscopy and tomography
analogue modelling of geologic processes


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2018.005


Authors

Pijnenburg, Ronald

0000-0003-0653-7565

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Verberne, Berend

0000-0002-1208-6193

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Hangx, Suzanne

0000-0003-2253-3273

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Spiers, Christopher

0000-0002-3436-8941

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands


References

Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Verberne, B. A., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Deformation Behavior of Sandstones From the Seismogenic Groningen Gas Field: Role of Inelastic Versus Elastic Mechanisms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(7), 5532–5558. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb015673

10.1029/2018JB015673

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Contact

Pijnenburg, Ronald

r.p.j.pijnenburg@uu.nl

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands


Citiation

Pijnenburg, R., Verberne, B., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. (2018). Mechanical and microstructural data used in the article Pijnenburg et al., Deformation behaviour of sandstones from the seismogenic Groningen gas field: Role of inelastic versus elastic mechanisms [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2018.005


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