Optimization of Well Spacing for Tight Sandstone Gas Reservoirs - Case Study of Eastern Sulige Gas Field

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 762-766
Author(s):  
Rui Lan Luo ◽  
Ji Wu Fan ◽  
Hong Mei Liao ◽  
Wen Xu
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Test Time ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Tight Gas ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Tight Sandstone ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Well Spacing

Influenced by special geologic condition and stimulation, the production performance of tight fractured gas well is obviously different from that of conventional gas well. During deliverability testing, the hydraulic fractured gas well can never reach steady state with limited test time. It is difficult to calculate reserve and drainage area accurately at early development stage. Take eastern Sulige gas field for example, by correctly recognizing the percolation characteristics and production performance of hydraulically-fractured tight gas wells, and combined with core analysis, 116 hydraulically fractured tight gas wells in eastern Sulige gas field have been analyzed. A prediction chart of recoverable reserve for estern Sulige gas field is established. With this chart, the ultimately recoverable reserves, drainage sizes, drainage lengths and drainage widths of 116 hydraulically-fractured tight gas wells in eastern Sulige gas field are predicted based on early stage of production data, and finally a reasonable well spacing for this field is suggested. Only utilizing routine production data without employing additional resources, this method is a good predictive guide to launch a development plan of tight gas field.

scholarly journals Classification and Application of Tight Gas Wells Based on Cluster Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2095 (1) ◽  
pp. 012099
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Cai ◽  
Chuanshuai Zuo ◽  
Jianying Zhu ◽  
Peng Qin ◽  
Baojiang Duan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Medium ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Tight Gas ◽  
Medium Energy ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Production Characteristics

Abstract The tight gas field is greatly affected by pressure in the development process. Due to the different production time and formation pressure of each well in the gas field, the production characteristics of the gas well are obviously different. After the gas well sees water, it is impossible to formulate production measures efficiently and accurately. Therefore, by analyzing the production performance characteristics of gas wells, this paper carries out the classification research of tight gas wells, and formulates the corresponding production measures according to the classification results. Taking gas well energy and liquid production intensity as the reference standard of gas well classification, the dynamic parameter indexes characterizing gas well energy and liquid production intensity are established. Gas wells with different production characteristics are divided into six categories by clustering algorithm: high energy-low liquid, high energy-high liquid, medium energy-low liquid, medium energy high-liquid, low energy-low liquid, low energy-high liquid. Then the classification method of tight gas well is formed. In this paper, 50 wells in Linxing block are selected as the research object. The research results show that most of the wells in Linxing block are located in area V, belonging to low energy and low liquid wells. It is recommended to implement intermittent production. The classification based on gas well energy and liquid production intensity are of guiding significance for the formulation of production measures in the Linxing block.

scholarly journals Prediction of critical liquid loading time for water-producing gas wells: Effect of liquid drop rotation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Chongyang ◽  
Fu Heng ◽  
Cheng Leli ◽  
Pei Wenyu
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Drop ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Liquid Loading ◽  
Gas Reservoir ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Production Stages ◽  
Field Workers ◽  
Drainage Effect

AbstractAfter more than 20 years of continuous development, part of the wells in the Moxilei-1 gas reservoir located at the Sichuan Basin have entered the middle–later production stage. With the continuous decline in formation pressure and production rates, some of the gas wells have entered the potential period of liquid loading, while some have already suffered water plugging. Currently, the field engineers usually carry out some corresponding drainage measures after the occurrence of liquid loading in the gas well, which will first affect the production progress of the gas field, then increase the difficulty in drainage and reduce the drainage effect afterward. On the basis of Pan’s model for evaluating critical liquid-carrying flow rate, the influence of liquid drop rotation was considered in the new model. Further, combined with the Arps production decline equation, a prediction model of liquid loading timing was deduced. Taking a typical well in the Moxilei-1 gas reservoir as an example, based on the early-stage production data of the gas well, the model was used to predict the liquid loading timing accurately. The model can predict the possibility and timing of liquid loading in gas wells at different production stages. It can check the gas wells with potential liquid loading, so as to reduce the workload for field workers. Furthermore, it can predict the potential liquid accumulation and its timing in advance, so as to guide the field workers to prepare for drainage in advance.

Achieving Cementing Improvement in Horizontal Tight Gas Field Development

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pungki Ariyanto ◽  
Mohamed.A.. A. Najwani ◽  
Yaseen Najwani ◽  
Hani Al Lawati ◽  
Jochen Pfeiffer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tight Gas ◽  
Cement Slurry ◽  
Tight Sandstone ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Full Field ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Horizontal Drain ◽  
Tight Reservoir ◽  
Design For All ◽  
Zonal Isolation

Abstract This paper outlines how a drilling team is meeting the challenge of cementing a production liner in deep horizontal drain sections in a tight sandstone reservoir. It is intended to show how the application of existing technologies and processes is leading to performance gain and improvements in cementing quality. The full field development plan of the tight reservoir gas project in the Sultanate of Oman is based on drilling around 300 wells targeting gas producing horizons at measured depths of around 6,000m MD with 1,000m horizontal sections. Effective cement placement for zonal isolation is critical across the production liner in order to contain fracture propagation in the correct zone. The first few attempts to cement the production liner in these wells had to overcome many challenges before finally achieving the well objectives. By looking at the complete system, rather than just the design of the cement slurry, the following criteria areas were identified: –Slurry design–Mud removal and cement slurry placement–Liner hanger and float equipment Improvements have been made in each of these areas, and the result has been delivery of a succesfully optimised liner cementing design for all future horizontal wells.

scholarly journals Optimization of Fracture Spacing and Well Spacing in Utica Shale Play Using Fast Analytical Flow-Cell Model (FCM) Calibrated with Numerical Reservoir Simulator

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 6736
Author(s):  
Ruud Weijermars
Keyword(s):  
Cell Model ◽  
Flow Cell ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Production Rates ◽  
Fracture Spacing ◽  
Well Spacing ◽  
Wet Gas ◽  
Reservoir Simulator

Recently, a flow-cell model (FCM) was specifically developed to quickly generate physics-based forecasts of production rates and estimated ultimate resources (EURs) for infill wells, as the basis for the estimation of proven undeveloped reserves. Such reserves estimations provide operators with key collateral for further field development with reserves-based loans. FCM has been verified in previous studies to accurately forecast production rates and EURs for both black oil and dry gas wells. This study aims to expand the application range of FCM to predict the production performance and EURs of wells planned in undeveloped acreage of the wet gas window. Forecasts of the well rates and EURs with FCM are compared with the performance predictions generated with an integrated reservoir simulator for multi-fractured wells, using detailed field data from the Utica Field Experiment. Results of FCM, with adjustment factors to account for wet gas compressibility effects, match closely with the numerical performance forecasts. The advantage of FCM is that it can run on a fast spreadsheet template. Once calibrated for wet gas wells by a numerical reservoir simulator accounting for compositional flow, FCM can forecast the performance of future wells when completion design parameters, such as fracture spacing and well spacing, are changed.

Numerical Simulation Study on the Key Influencing Factors of Water-Invasion Performance for the Gas Wells with Bottom-Water

2014 ◽  
Vol 884-885 ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Zhi Jun Li ◽  
Ji Qiang Li ◽  
Wen De Yan
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Bottom Water ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Water Gas

For the water-sweeping gas reservoir, especially when the water-body is active, water invasion can play positive roles in maintaining formation pressure and keeping the gas well production. But when the water-cone break through and towards the well bottom, suffers from the influencing of gas-water two phase flows, permeability of gas phase decrease sharply and will have a serious impact on the production performance of the gas well. Moreover, the time when the water-cone breakthrough will directly affect the final recovery of the gas wells, therefore, the numerical simulation method is used to conduct the research on the key influencing factors of water-invasion performance for the gas wells with bottom-water, which is the basis of the mechanical model for the typical gas wells with bottom-water. It indicate that as followings: (1) the key influencing factors of water-invasion performance for the gas wells with bottom-water are those, such as the open degree of the gas beds, well gas production and the amount of Kv/Kh value; and (2) the barrier will be in charge of great significance on the water-controlling for the bottom water gas wells, and its radius is the key factor to affect water-invasion performance for the bottom water gas wells where the barriers exist nearby.

Research Progress in Calculation Methods for Single-Well Dynamic Reserves of Gas Reservoirs

2014 ◽  
Vol 1044-1045 ◽  
pp. 401-405
Author(s):  
Hai Dong Shi
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Calculation Methods ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Well Spacing ◽  
Well Pattern ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Gas Fields

Dynamic reserves are the important basis for determining the reasonable deliverability of gas wells and well spacing density and also the foundation for the overall development plan of a gas field. Therefore, the evaluation of dynamic reserves of gas wells is crucially important to developing gas fields with high efficiency, optimizing well pattern and shortening development period. For this reason, this paper arranges and analyzes systematically a series of calculation methods for dynamic reserves of single gas well, which have arisen in recent years, and identifies the calculation methods for different types of gas reservoirs.

Study on Source Analysis of the Cation in Produced Water from Sulige Gas Field and Anti-Scaling Measures

2019 ◽  
Vol 814 ◽  
pp. 505-510
Author(s):  
Peng Chang ◽  
Rui Xue Shi ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Wei Han ◽  
Cong Dan Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Produced Water ◽  
Xrd Analysis ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Scale Inhibitor ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Strontium Sulfate ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Main Component

A large amount of foreign matter appears in the Sulige gas well, causing blockage and corrosion of the pipeline, increasing the pressure difference in the wellbore and seriously affecting the normal production of the gas well. The gas wells with serious conditions mentioned above were selected to analyze the quality of single well produced water and the composition of blockage and core. Combined with the XRD analysis results of the cuttings, the long-term leaching experiments on the cuttings in different simulated solutions were carried out to study the sources of scaled ions in the gas wells. The experimental results showed that the extracted water from SD6-1 had high salinity and high content of scale ions Ca2+, Ba2+ and Sr2+;the main component of blockage is the acid insoluble strontium sulfate (barium) scale, and contains a small amount of corrosion products. The easily scalable Ca2+、Mg2+、Ba2+ and Sr2+ produced from the dissolution of the core in the formation water or working fluids, especially the acid erosion dissolves. According to the scaling mechanism, two kinds of Sr/Ba scale inhibitor were selected. The results showed that the barium II scale inhibitor performance is relatively good, and at the concentration of 40 mg/L, and the scale inhibition rate was more than 95%. The clogging of a single well can be reduced by adding a scale inhibitor.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on the Effective Utilization of Reserves in Tight Sandstone Gas Reservoirs and Their Applications

Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Feifei Fang ◽  
Weijun Shen ◽  
Huaxun Liu ◽  
Shusheng Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Moving Boundary ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Tight Gas ◽  
Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Tight Sandstone ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Tight Gas Reservoir ◽  
Water Cut ◽  
Field Production

The effective utilization of reserves in tight sandstone reservoirs is one of the major concerns in terms of the development of tight sandstone gas reservoirs. However, the characteristics of reserve utilization are not fully understood, and many uncertainties still exist in the process. For this purpose, long cores on the Su 6 block of Sulige tight sandstone gas field in China were selected, and a multipoint embedded measurement system was established to study the characteristics of effective reserve utilization. Then, the effects of the related reservoir properties and production parameters were investigated. Based on the similarity theory, the effective conversion relationship between the physical experiment and the actual field production was established. The results showed that the pressure distribution in the exploitation of tight gas reservoir is nonlinear, and water cut in the reservoir will hinder the effective utilization of reserves. The lower the reservoir permeability, the larger the negative effect of water on reservoir utilization. Lower gas production rate and higher original pressure are associated with a smoother drawdown curve, which results in larger reserve utilization. The moving boundary expands with time, and its initial propagation velocity increase and then decrease. Additionally, the water cut in the reservoir can delay the spread of moving boundary propagation. The experimental results are consistent with the actual results of the field production by the similarity criterion, which can reflect and predict the production performance in tight gas reservoirs effectively. These results can provide a better understanding of reservoir pressure distribution and effective utilization of reserves to optimize the gas recovery and development benefit in tight sandstone gas reservoirs.

Technology of water shut-off treatment in the gas well using coiled tubing

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
D. S. Leontiev ◽  
I. I. Kleshchenko ◽  
A. D. Shalyapina ◽  
M. M. Mansurova
Keyword(s):  
Bottom Water ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Flexible Pipe ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Coiled Tubing ◽  
Bottom Hole ◽  
Water Saturated ◽  
Gas Fields

In the modern practice of gas field operation, there is a problem associated with the inflow of bottom water to the bottom hole of the well. One of the ways to solve this urgent problem is the introduction of water isolation technologies in the development of gas fields and the use of special compositions and technological equipment for pumping liquids into the watered layers of gas wells. The article deals with the application of a set of special technological measures, such as installation of surface equipment for working in a gas well using coiled tubing, descent of a flexible pipe through a column of pump and compressor pipes with a packer, construction of an inflatable packer, as well as the use of a selective water-insulating composition of the well by pumping it through existing perforation channels in the casing string. Liquids based on ethyl silicate create a kind water shut-off screen between the gas- saturated and water-saturated parts of the gas well formation.

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