Horizontal Well IPR Calculations
This paper (SPE 51396) was revised for publication from paper SPE 36753, first presented at the 1996 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 6-9 October. Original manuscript received for review 24 October 1996. Revised manuscript received 23 October 1997. Paper peer approved 7 July 1998. Summary This paper presents the calculation of near-wellbore skin and non-Darcy flow coefficient for horizontal wells based on whether the well is drilled in an underbalanced or overbalanced condition, whether the well is completed openhole, with a slotted liner, or cased, and on the number of shots per foot and phasing for cased wells. The inclusion of mechanical skin and the non-Darcy flow coefficient in previously published horizontal well equations is presented and a comparison between these equations is given. In addition, both analytical and numerical solutions for horizontal wells with skin and non-Darcy flow are presented for comparison. P. 392