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Title: | Determinación del flujo de calor a partir de sondeos petroleros en la Cuenca Catalano-Balear |
Other Titles: | Determination of heat-flow from oil weiis in the Catalan-Balear basin | Authors: | Negredo, Ana M. CSIC ORCID; Fernandez, Manel CSIC ORCID ; Jurado, Maria José CSIC ORCID | Keywords: | Gradiente térmico Porosidad Cuenca Catalano-Balear Diagrafía Flujo de calor Conductividad térmica Catalan-Balearic Basin Well log Heat flow Thermal gradient Porosity Thermal conductivity |
Issue Date: | 1994 | Publisher: | CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (ICTJA) | Citation: | Acta Geológica Hispánica, v. 29 (1994), no 1, p. 27-40 | Abstract: | [ES] En el presente estudio se determina el flujo de calor a partir de datos
procedentes de siete sondeos petroleros situados en la Cuenca
Catalano-Balear. La información utilizada consiste en diagrafías de
sondeo, numerosas muestras litológicas procedentes de ripios y testigos
laterales, y datos de temperatura BHT y DST. La variación vertical de
la conductividad térmica se ha calculado a partir de la porosidad y de la
composición mineralógica de las formaciones.
El valor de conductividad térmica media de los sedimentos neógenos
de la cuenca es de 2 W m ' K-'. El fuerte contraste de conductividad
entre basamento y sedimentos permite deducir que la evolución térmica
de la cuenca está influenciada por el efecto de apantallamiento térmico
en los sedimentos (blanketing), el cual puede haber reducido de
manera importante el enfriamiento postextensional y la subsidencia
producida en la Cuenca Catalano-Balear.
Los datos de temperatura disponibles han permitido determinar un
gradiente geotérmico regional de 36+2 OC km-', valor ligeramente inferior
al estimado en sondeos en la parte suroeste de la cuenca. El flujo de
calor presenta valores bastante dispersos, obteniéndose el valor más
elevado en el sondeo situado en el extremo suroccidental de la cuenca.
Los resultados concuerdan, por tanto, con la tendencia de aumento del
flujo de calor hacia el Suroeste observada, con anterioridad, en la
Cuenca Catalano-Balear. El valor medio de flujo de calor obtenido es
de 85-90 mW m-2. Este valor es demasiado elevado para ser debido únicamente
al proceso de rifting, puesto que los sondeos utilizados están
en el borde septentrional de la cuenca. Esto indica la posible presencia
de procesos de circulación subterránea de agua. Los datos de temperatura
y de porosidad de algunos sondeos apoyan claramente esta tesis. [EN] A method using information from oil wells has been applied to calculate heat flow at seven oil wells in the Valencia trough, a Neogene extensional basin located in the western Mediterranean. Most of these weils penetrate the Cenozoic sedimentary cover and the underlying Mesozoic sequences and the Paleozoic basement. The basic data set consists of well logs, rock samples including cuttings and cores, and bottom hole (BHT) and dril1 stem test (DST) temperature data. Thermal conductivity of the rock matrix is determined from the conductivities and volumetric fractions of its mineral components by using a geometrical mean model. The in-situ thermal conductivity profile is then obtained as a function of porosity, and it is corrected for in-situ temperature conditions. The sonic log has been used to estimate the porosity profile, which has been corrected depending on the clay content of the formation. Finally, vertical heat flow variation is calculated at every well by combining bulk thermal conductivity profile and geothermal gradients. The bulk thermal conductivity has been shown to be very sensitive to lithologic and porosity changes, with values that vary from 1.5 W m-' K-' for shales with over 40 percent porosity, to about 4.3 W m-' K-' for dolomites and consolidated quartz-rich sandstones that constitute the basement. The maximum thermal conductivity values are attained for the basement materials and are due to the low porosity (caused by compaction and burial) and to the high matrix conductivities of Mesozoic carbonates and sandstones. The mean bulk thermal conductivity of the sediments is found to be about 2 W m-' K-l. Therefore, a thermal blanketing effect is likely to occur due to the conductivity contrast between the sedimentary cover and the underlying basement. This effect, which has been neglected in previous models of the thermal evolution of the Valencia trough, probably has acted to slow down post-extensional lithospheric cooling and to reduce tectonic subsidence. A regional thermal gradient of 3612 "C km-' is obtained from the available temperature data. This value is siightly lower than that estimated from a set of wells in the southwestern part of the basin. The calculated heat flow values are highly scattered, the maximum value being located in the southwestern part of the basin. As a consequence, the resulting heat flow agrees with the increase towards the SW previously observe6 in the Valencia trough. The mean heat flow value in the study area is determined to be 85-90 mW m-2. Although thermal conductivity could be overestimated, this value is too high to be just a consequence of the rifting process in the Valencia trough, since most of the wells considered are located in the northernmost part of the basin. The thermal effect of groundwater circulation is proposed to be in part responsible for the positive and negative thermal gradient anomalies. Fracturing and karstification, which has been widely recognized in the Mesozoic carbonates in the basement, together with the temperature data and porosity results, support this hypothesis. |
Description: | Agradecemos a Repsol Exploración la cesión de las muestras rocosas de los sondeos, y al Dr. Lluís Cabrera el acceso a las muestras almacenadas en la Facultad de Geología de la Universidad de Barcelona. I Agradecemos a los revisores sus críticas y comentarios, los cuales contribuyeron a mejorar sustancialmente este trabajo. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/6777 | ISSN: | 1695-6133 |
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