Optimization of Water Avoidance Height in Horizontal Wells in Carbonate Bottom Water Gas Reservoirs

Author(s):  
Huai-long Chen ◽  
Hai-dong Shi ◽  
Chun-qiu Guo ◽  
Yue Zheng ◽  
Wei Ding ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-396
Author(s):  
Yikun Liu ◽  
Haidong Wang ◽  
Wenbo Meng ◽  
Chong Zhang ◽  
Jiqiang Zhi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Tao Zhu ◽  
Jing Lu

Many gas reservoirs are with bottom water drive. In order to prevent or delay unwanted water into the wellbore, the producing wells are often completed as partially penetrating vertical wells, and more and more horizontal wells have been drilled in recent years in bottom water drive gas reservoirs to reduce water coning and increase productivity. For a well, non-Darcy flow is inherently a near wellbore phenomenon. In spite of the considerable study that non-Darcy behavior of fully penetrating vertical wells, there has been no study of a partially penetrating vertical well or a horizontal well in a gas reservoir with bottom water drive. This paper presents new binomial deliverability equations for partially penetrating vertical gas wells and horizontal gas wells, assuming that only radial flow occurs in the near wellbore non-Darcy’s flow domain. The inflow performance of a vertical gas well is compared with that of a horizontal gas well. The proposed equations can account for the advantages of horizontal gas wells.


Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Li ◽  
Guanglong Sheng ◽  
Yuliang Su

Hydraulic fracturing is a necessary method to develop shale gas reservoirs effectively and economically. However, the flow behavior in multi-porosity fractured reservoirs is difficult to characterize by conventional methods. In this paper, combined with apparent porosity/permeability model of organic matter, inorganic matter and induced fractures, considering the water film in unstimulated reservoir volume (USRV) region water and bulk water in effectively stimulated reservoir volume (ESRV) region, a multi-media water-gas two-phase flow model was established. The finite difference is used to solve the model and the water-gas two-phase flow behavior of multi-fractured horizontal wells is obtained. Mass transfer between different-scale media, the effects of pore pressure on reservoirs and fluid properties at different production stages were considered in this model. The influence of the dynamic reservoir physical parameters on flow behavior and gas production in multi-fractured horizontal wells is studied. The results show that the properties of the total organic content (TOC) and the inherent porosity of the organic matter affect gas production after 40 days. With the gradual increase of production time, the gas production rate decreases rapidly compared with the water production rate, and the gas saturation in the inorganic matter of the ESRV region gradually decreases. The ignorance of stress sensitivity would cause the gas production increase, and the ignorance of organic matter shrinkage decrease the gas production gradually. The water film mainly affects gas production after 100 days, while the bulk water has a greater impact on gas production throughout the whole period. The research provides a new method to accurately describe the two-phase fluid flow behavior in different scale media of fractured shale gas reservoirs.


2013 ◽  
Vol 650 ◽  
pp. 664-666
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Guo Ming Liu

A12 oil and gas reservoirs in L Oilfield Carboniferous carbonate rocks of oil and gas bearing system, saturated with the gas cap and edge water and bottom water reservoir. The A12 oil and gas reservoir structure the relief of the dome-shaped anticline, oil, gas and water distribution controlled by structure, the gas interface -2785 meters above sea level, the oil-water interface altitude range -2940 ~-2980m, average-2960m. Average reservoir thickness of 23m, with a certain amount of dissolved gas drive and gas cap gas drive energy, but not very active edge and bottom water, gas cap drive index.


2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 393-398
Author(s):  
Wei Yao Zhu ◽  
Xiao He Huang ◽  
Hong Qing Song ◽  
Jia Deng ◽  
Xuan Liu

Based on the theory of porous flow, a study on prediction of water breakthrough time of horizontal wells in a homogeneous gas reservoir with bottom water is presented. This paper derives water breakthrough time formula of horizontal wells in a reservoir with bottom water drive. In the formula many factors are taken into account, such as height of water avoidance, gas-water mobility ratio, irreducible water saturation, residual gas saturation, etc. Case study indicates that for a horizontal gas well with constant production rate, the water breakthrough time is proportional to the height of water avoidance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 351-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Li ◽  
Yongsheng Tan ◽  
Beibei Jiang ◽  
Yongqing Wang ◽  
Nan Zhang

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Lu ◽  
Shawket Ghedan ◽  
Tao Zhu ◽  
Djebbar Tiab

Many gas reservoirs are with bottom water drive. In order to prevent or delay unwanted water into the wellbore, the producing wells are often completed as partially penetrating vertical wells, and more and more horizontal wells have been drilled in recent years in bottom water drive gas reservoirs to reduce water coning and increase productivity. For a well, non-Darcy flow is inherently a near wellbore phenomenon. In spite of the considerable study that non-Darcy behavior of fully penetrating vertical wells, there has been no study of a partially penetrating vertical well or a horizontal well in a gas reservoir with bottom water drive. This paper presents new binomial deliverability equations for partially penetrating vertical gas wells and horizontal gas wells, assuming that only radial flow occurs in the near wellbore non-Darcy’s flow domain. The inflow performance of a vertical gas well is compared with that of a horizontal gas well. The proposed equations can account for the advantages of horizontal gas wells.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document