A New Two-Phase Pseudo Pressure Approach For The Interpretation Of Gas Condensate Well Tests In The Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalal Mazloom ◽  
Roy Kelly ◽  
Hassan Mahani
Keyword(s):  
Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Naturally Fractured ◽  
Well Tests

Upscaling two-phase flow in naturally fractured reservoirs

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 93 (11) ◽  
pp. 1621-1632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan K. Matthäi ◽  
Hamidreza M. Nick
Keyword(s):  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Naturally Fractured

Pressure-Transient Behavior of Continuously and Discretely Fractured Reservoirs

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 82-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikri Kuchuk ◽  
Denis Biryukov
Keyword(s):  
Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Dual Porosity ◽  
Pressure Transient ◽  
Naturally Fractured ◽  
Dual Porosity Model ◽  
Well Tests ◽  
Porosity Model

Summary Fractures are common features of many well-known reservoirs. Naturally fractured reservoirs contain fractures in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary formations. Faults in many naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs often have high-permeability zones, and are connected to many fractures with varying conductivities. Furthermore, in many naturally fractured reservoirs, faults and fractures can be discrete (i.e., not a connected-network fracture system). New semianalytical solutions are used to understand the pressure behavior of naturally fractured reservoirs containing a network of discrete and/or connected (continuous) finite- and infinite-conductivity fractures. We present an extensive literature review of the pressure-transient behavior of fractured reservoirs. First, we show that the Warren and Root (1963) dual-porosity model is a fictitious homogeneous porous medium because it does not contain any fractures. Second, by use of the new solutions, we show that for most naturally fractured reservoirs, the Warren and Root (1963) dual-porosity model is inappropriate and fundamentally incomplete for the interpretation of pressure-transient well tests because it does not capture the behavior of these reservoirs. We examined many field well tests published in the literature. With few exceptions, none of them shows the behavior of the Warren and Root (1963) dual-porosity model. These examples exhibit very diverse pressure behaviors of discretely and continuously fractured reservoirs. Unlike the single derivative shape of the Warren and Root (1963) model, the derivatives of these examples exhibit many different flow regimes depending on fracture distribution and on their intensity and conductivity. We show these flow regimes with our new model for discretely and continuously fractured reservoirs. Most well tests published in the literature do not exhibit the Warren and Root (1963) dual-porosity reservoir-model behavior. If we interpret them by use of this dual-porosity model, then the estimated permeability, skin factor, interporosity flow coefficient (λ), and storativity ratio (ω) will not represent the actual reservoir parameters.

Analysing the limitations of the dual-porosity response during well tests in naturally fractured reservoirs

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Egya ◽  
S. Geiger ◽  
P. W. M. Corbett ◽  
R. March ◽  
K. Bisdom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ◽  
Dual Porosity ◽  
Naturally Fractured ◽  
Well Tests
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