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川南页岩气开采区地震特征与流体驱动影响——以长宁和威远开采区为例

Fluid-driven effects and seismic characteristics in southern Sichuan shale gas development area: insights from the Changning and Weiyuan fields

  • 摘要: 流体注入诱发的地震活动已引起全球广泛关注, 成为制约页岩气等清洁能源安全开采的难题之一。以川南典型页岩气开采区为工程背景, 在对流体注入期间地震活动性参数的演化特征及波动成因进行分析的基础上, 研究了地震群的前–后缘现象及其演化规律, 探讨了开采区地震群的流体驱动模式。研究表明: 开采区中强地震(ML≥3.5)与流体注入具有时空一致性, 注水过程显著增强了地震活动的强度与复杂性; 页岩气开采区地震群后缘现象具有普遍性, 即震源分布中心存在无地震事件发生的区域且逐渐扩大; 地震群前缘和后缘演化受无震滑移控制, 前缘和后缘之间的地震群受组合模式控制, 流体压力驱动的缓慢扩散模式与无震滑移驱动的快速迁移模式交替控制地震群的演化。研究成果对于页岩气开采区地震群成因机制研究及地震风险评价与防控具有重要的理论与实际工程价值。

     

    Abstract: Fluid injection-induced seismicity has garnered global attention, causing a key technical challenge to the safe extraction of clean energy resources, such as shale gas. Taking a representative shale gas development area in the southern Sichuan Basin as the background, this study investigated the evolution and fluctuation of seismicity parameters during fluid injection, and examined the spatiotemporal dynamics of the seismic front and back-front behavior. The underlying fluid-driven patterns of earthquake swarms in the region were explored. The results show a clear spatiotemporal correlation between fluid injection and moderate-to-strong earthquakes (ML ≥ 3.5), with the injection process significantly enhancing the intensity and complexity of seismicity. We confirm the ubiquity of the seismic back-front phenomenon, characterized by a progressively expanding central zone devoid of seismicity. The seismic front and back-front are found to be controlled by aseismic slip, while the swarms between them are governed by a combination of mechanisms: alternating dominance of slow diffusion driven by fluid pressure and rapid migration driven by aseismic slip. These findings helps the understanding of the physical origins of fluid-induced seismicity in shale gas regions, as well as for assessing and mitigating associated seismic hazards.

     

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