La distribución de fracturas en las formaciones Agua Nueva y San Felipe del noreste de México

Raúl Edgardo Del Ángel Juárez; María Mercedes Zavala Arriaga; Pablo Dávila Harris

doi:10.36790/epistemus.v19i38.327

Autores/as

Raúl Edgardo Del Ángel Juárez Posgrado en Geociencias Aplicadas, IPICYT https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7450-4779
María Mercedes Zavala Arriaga División de Geociencias Aplicadas, IPICYT https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7973-1348
Pablo Dávila Harris INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA Y TECNOLOGICA, A.C. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-5459

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36790/epistemus.v19i38.327

Palabras clave:

fracturas, microfracturas, afloramientos análogos, Formación Agua Nueva, Formación San Felipe

Resumen

Los yacimientos naturalmente fracturados representan uno de los mayores reservorios de hidrocarburos. En este trabajo se estudió la distribución de fracturas en las formaciones Agua Nueva y San Felipe, San Luis Potosí, México. Se realizaron mediciones de fracturas en afloramiento, núcleo y sección delgada, con las cuales se identificaron un conjunto NE-SW de fracturas parcialmente abiertas y con apertura mínima conductiva de0.5mm. Los resultados indican mayor intensidad de fracturas en la Formación Agua Nueva, así como distintas etapas de apertura. También se observó que las fracturas de esta formación siguen una distribución tipo ley de potencia, mientras que, para la Formación San Felipe, las fracturas son mejor modeladas con ecuaciones exponenciales. En conjunto, se estima una intensidad de fractura a profundidad de alrededor de cuatro fracturas por metro lineal. Estos estudios aportan datos para modelos estáticos y dinámicos, vitales durante el desarrollo de pozos o recuperación mejorada en campos petroleros.

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