Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks

It is well known that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in salt caverns is an important means to solve the potential petroleum shortage. However, salt mines in China are mainly lacustrine-layered structures with many mudstone interlayers. Meanwhile, the acid value of extracted crude oil has been incre...

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Main Authors: He Chen, Huihua Peng, Jian Duan, Jun Wang, Shengnan Li, Yuejing Yang
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Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2022-01-01
Series:Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7003227
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author He Chen
Huihua Peng
Jian Duan
Jun Wang
Shengnan Li
Yuejing Yang
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Huihua Peng
Jian Duan
Jun Wang
Shengnan Li
Yuejing Yang
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description It is well known that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in salt caverns is an important means to solve the potential petroleum shortage. However, salt mines in China are mainly lacustrine-layered structures with many mudstone interlayers. Meanwhile, the acid value of extracted crude oil has been increasing in recent years. The acid erosion of salt cavern interlayers by crude oil would affect the safety of bedded salt cavern oil storage. Therefore, combined with acoustic emission technology, the multistage creep mechanical behaviors of natural mudstone interlayer samples and the mudstone interlayer samples treated by oil erosion are studied in this paper. The internal structures of interlayer samples before and after oil erosion were systematically analyzed by SEM. The results show that petroleum acid (naphthenic acid) plays a significant deterioration role in the mechanical properties of mudstone interlayers during the petroleum reserve process. Compared with the uncorroded samples, the mudstone interlayers after oil erosion show obvious brittle failure characteristics. At low stress levels, the axial strain grows stepwise and the lateral strain is smaller than the axial strain. At high stress levels, however, the lateral creep is obviously higher than the axial creep. A large number of AE signals were generated at the initial loading stage for different stress levels. After the creep stabilized, the AE signals were significantly reduced. During the process of petroleum erosion, the internal pores in rocks continued to develop with the dissolution of many mineral particles. This suggests that crude oil storage in the bedded salt rocks could accelerate the deterioration of the surrounding rocks via erosion. This paper could provide basic research data and a reference for the construction of oil storage in the bedded salt rocks.
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spelling doaj.art-c7eb66ed430f4edb82f91f55b59f5e1c2022-12-22T04:36:45ZengHindawi LimitedAdvances in Materials Science and Engineering1687-84422022-01-01202210.1155/2022/7003227Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt RocksHe Chen0Huihua Peng1Jian Duan2Jun Wang3Shengnan Li4Yuejing Yang5Department of Building EngineeringDepartment of Building EngineeringDepartment of Building EngineeringDepartment of Building EngineeringDepartment of Building EngineeringDepartment of Building EngineeringIt is well known that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in salt caverns is an important means to solve the potential petroleum shortage. However, salt mines in China are mainly lacustrine-layered structures with many mudstone interlayers. Meanwhile, the acid value of extracted crude oil has been increasing in recent years. The acid erosion of salt cavern interlayers by crude oil would affect the safety of bedded salt cavern oil storage. Therefore, combined with acoustic emission technology, the multistage creep mechanical behaviors of natural mudstone interlayer samples and the mudstone interlayer samples treated by oil erosion are studied in this paper. The internal structures of interlayer samples before and after oil erosion were systematically analyzed by SEM. The results show that petroleum acid (naphthenic acid) plays a significant deterioration role in the mechanical properties of mudstone interlayers during the petroleum reserve process. Compared with the uncorroded samples, the mudstone interlayers after oil erosion show obvious brittle failure characteristics. At low stress levels, the axial strain grows stepwise and the lateral strain is smaller than the axial strain. At high stress levels, however, the lateral creep is obviously higher than the axial creep. A large number of AE signals were generated at the initial loading stage for different stress levels. After the creep stabilized, the AE signals were significantly reduced. During the process of petroleum erosion, the internal pores in rocks continued to develop with the dissolution of many mineral particles. This suggests that crude oil storage in the bedded salt rocks could accelerate the deterioration of the surrounding rocks via erosion. This paper could provide basic research data and a reference for the construction of oil storage in the bedded salt rocks.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7003227
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Jian Duan
Jun Wang
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Yuejing Yang
Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
title Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks
title_full Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks
title_fullStr Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks
title_full_unstemmed Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks
title_short Creep Behaviors of Interlayers around an Underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Cavern in Bedded Salt Rocks
title_sort creep behaviors of interlayers around an underground strategic petroleum reserve spr cavern in bedded salt rocks
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7003227
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