Description of Shale Pore Fracture Structure Based on Multi-fractal Theory

Jinchi LI, Wanchun ZHAO, Siqi LIU

Abstract


In order to describe the shale-fissure's structure and distribution accurately, this paper combines with complex features of shale rock mass' multilevel micro-scale fissure network, putting forward that utilizing the multi-fractal method to describe the distribution of fissures with different dimensions. By choosing some oil field's block shale samples, obtain the fissure distribution characteristics by CT scanning and calculate with the multi-fractal theory, the results show that the shale rock mass' fissure distribute in a multiple-fractal regularity. The study results lay a solid foundation of subsequent press shale fissure network's formation and description.


Keywords


Shale rock; multi-fractal; CT scanning; fracture distribution

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