Propriedades físicas de arenitos afetados por bandas de deformação nos diferentes elementos arquiteturais de uma zona de falha.

Abstract

Deformation bands are brittle structures that occur in porous sandstones and may change the physical properties, geomechanical and hydraulic behavior of the rock, leading to the compartmentation of reservoirs. The objective of this research was to understand the variation of the properties of uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), porosity, Poisson’s ratio, Young’s and incompressibility’s modulus in different architectural elements of fault zone: protolith, damage zone and fault core. For this we extracted profiles for the measurement of structural and geomechanics with aid of Schmidt hammer, laboratorial analysis of porosity, both thin section digital means and by gas permoporosimeter, and Young’s, incompressibility and Poisson’s ratio calculations. The results indicate that in outcroup corresponding to the nucleus of fault the UCS values were up to three times higher than those in the damage zone and four times higher than the protolith. The porosity shows an average decrease of 10% in the damage zone and up to 75% in the fault core. Porosity by gas, Young’s and incompressibility modulus and Poisson’s ratios was calculated in core fault. In this architectural element with bands have resistance up to twice times than zone without bands, marked in the Young’s mo dulus as well as the incompressibility’s modulus, however both with deformation occurring in a brittle character, evidenced by Poisson’s ratio. We conclude that deformation bands directly affect the physics properties of sandstones in different levels of intensity. The occurrence of such heterogeneities may have important impacts on the production since it imposes anisotropies to the reservoirs.