Estimation of original gas in place from short-term shut-in pressure data for commingled tight gas reservoirs with no crossflow /

72-hour shut-in pressure data. The backflow phenomenon is

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khuong, Chan Hung
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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Summary:72-hour shut-in pressure data. The backflow phenomenon is
accuracy is improved if later times data is used, but then
and two-point methods (secant and tangent methods) are easy,
be near abandonment. The one-point method always gives
but its major drawback is that it is not always feasible and
can either over-estimate or under-estimate the OGIP. The
cause the graph of p/z as a function of cumulative gas
circumstances. This research studies different empirical
conservative estimates of the OGIP, the two-point method is
considered in this study, because it can use early time
crossflow, from short-term (72-hour) shut-in pressure data;
data is available. This is because p/z is not a linear
during shut-in periods were considered in this work. The
during shut-in periods. The crossflow , which is not subject
fast, but inaccurate, especially at early times. Their
fitting method can be more accurate whenever it is applicable
fitting, and type curve methods. A two dimensional dry gas
function of cumulative gas production (GP) under these
it can have non-unique solutions.
layer or commingled two-layer tight gas reservoirs without
method, is not applicable for commingled fight gas
methods to estimate the original gas in place (OGIP) for one-
namely one-point (secant), two-point (tangent), curve
non-darcy flow was found to have insignificant effect on the
of this study, on the other hand, is the inter-layer flow in
p/z72 data with relative reliability; its weakness is that
production to be a curve instead of a straight line. The one
reservoirs, especially when only short-term shut-in pressure
simulator (GASSIM simulator) was used in this study. The
The conventional material balance method (M.B.) , or p/z
the flow of gas from one layer into another via the wellbore
the OGIP estimates would be less useful since the field would
the reservoir. The backflow, wellbore storage, short shut-in
time, and low permeability are contributing factors that
type curve method is relatively the better one among those
usually more accurate than the one-point method. The curve
wellbore storage, non-darcy flow, and backflow phenomenon
Item Description:"Major subject: Petroluem Engineering".
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Physical Description:xii, 89 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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