The Raton Basin of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico experienced a significant increase in seismicity over the last several decades, including two M5+ earthquakes. started soon after an wastewater disposal associated with coal-bed methane production. Twenty-nine injection wells have operated Basin, high-rate injectors located within kilometer most seismically active regions. We develope...

Knowledge of subsurface formation pressures is critical for the calibration predictions and models needed safe drilling deep wells, historically oil gas wells. The same details apply to sequestration CO2, ephemeral storage gases such as hydrogen geothermal power. An estimated 10-14% wells globally experience an unexpected influx fluid, indicative controlling mud in borehole at that time having ...

Pores with undulating opening diameters have emerged as an analytical tool enhancing the speed of resistive-pulse experiments, with a potential to simultaneously characterize size and mechanical properties of translocating objects. In this work, we present a detailed study of the characteristics of resistive-pulses of charged and uncharged polymer particles in pores with different aspect ratios...

In this paper, a three-dimensional poro-elastoplastic model for the short-crested wave-induced pore pressures in a porous seabed is presented. Unlike the previous models, both elasticity and plasticity of seafloor are considered in the present model. This study considers the effects of wave and soil characteristics on the pore pressures and was validated with the previous wave experiment data. ...

A 3D multiphase-field (PhF) model has been developed in order to study the formation of a micropore constrained to grow in a solid network (i.e., pinching effect). The model accounts for the pressure difference due to capillarity between liquid and gas, the equilibrium condition at triple (solid-liquid-pore) lines, the partitioning and diffusion of dissolved gases such as hydrogen. From the pre...

A new simple shear apparatus is fabricated which is capable of applying monotonic and cyclic load on soil specimens. A series of tests was conducted to study the pore pressures (or suction), volume change, and shear behavior of the soil samples with anisotropic consolidation pressure. The simple shear apparatus is capable of controlling as well as measuring pore-air and pore-water pressure in t...

Both seismic and electrical properties depend on the mineralogical composition of the rock, porosity, fluid content, and in situ stress state. Previous work on effects of CO2 on seismic velocities is limited. Wang and Nur, 1989, measured both compressional (Pwave) and shear (S-wave) velocities on a number of sandstones saturated with nhexadecane and then flooded with CO2. They made measurements...