Underground Gas Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs

Author(s):  
J. V. Goodman
2018 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 584-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingxing Bai ◽  
Anqi Shen ◽  
Lingdong Meng ◽  
Jianjun Zhu ◽  
Kaoping Song

Author(s):  
Francesca Verga

The development of an underground gas storage (UGS) project and its subsequent management must ensure technical feasibility, commercial value and long-term efficiency. The UGS industry has borrowed much of its knowledge from other disciplines (primarily oil and gas reservoir engineering), but it has also developed its own technology. This paper provides a methodological approach based on current practices and available methods for designing and safely operating a UGS (including the so-called “delta-pressure” option to enhance UGS performance) and highlights what is special in UGS compared to oil and gas reservoirs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
A. A. Feyzullayev ◽  
A. G. Gojayev

Underground oil and gas reservoirs (formations) are characterized by spatial variability of their structure, material composition and petrophysical properties of its constituent rocks: particle size distribution, porosity, permeability, structure and texture of the pore space, carbonate content, electrical resistivity, oil and water saturation and other properties. When assessing development and exploitation conditions for underground gas storages, created in depleted underground oil and gas reservoirs, the inherited nature of the reservoir development should be taken into account. Therefore, identifying the features of variations in well productivity is a crucial task, solution of which can contribute to the creation of more efficient system for underground gas storage exploitation. The paper presents the findings of comparative analysis of spatial variations in well productivity during the exploitation of the Garadagh underground gas storage (Azerbaijan), created in the depleted gas condensate reservoir. An uneven nature of the variations in well productivity was established, which was connected with the reservoir heterogeneity (variations in the reservoir lithological composition and poroperm properties). The research was based on the analysis of spatial variations of a number of reservoir parameters: the reservoir net thickness, lithological composition and poroperm properties. The analysis of variations in the net thickness and poroperm properties of the VII horizon of the Garadagh gas condensate field was carried out based on the data of geophysical logging of about 40 wells and studying more than 90 core samples. The data on of more than 90 wells formed the basis for the spacial productivity variation analysis. The analysis of productivity variation in the space of well technological characteristics (based on data from 18 wells) in the Garadagh underground gas storage (UGS) was carried out through the example of the volume of cyclic gas injection and withdrawal in 2020–2021 season. The studies allowed revealing non-uniform spacial variations in the volumes of injected and withdrawn gas at the Garadagh UGS, created in the corresponding depleted gas condensate reservoir. The features of the UGS exploitation conditions are in good agreement with the features of the reservoir development conditions (variations in the well productivity). The inherited nature of the reservoir development and the underground gas storage exploitation is substantiated by the reservoir heterogeneity caused by the spatial variability of the reservoir lithological composition and poroperm properties. Assessing and taking into account the reservoir heterogeneity when designing underground gas storage exploitation conditions should be an important prerequisite for increasing UGS exploitation efficiency.


2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Alizadeh ◽  
Zohreh Movahed ◽  
Radzuan Junin ◽  
Rahmat Mohsin ◽  
Mehdi Alizadeh ◽  
...  

The purpose of modelling the fractures is to create simulation properties with the power to predict the reservoir behaviour. Petrel software is one of the best softwares in the market that can do this task very well, but there is no available educational paper for every researcher. Therefore, in this work, a fracture modelling job was done in one of the most important Iranian fields using Petrel software and image log data. The purpose of this work was  to determine the new information of the fractures in Gachsaran field and also to prepare a valuable educational paper for other researchers who are interested to learn about the fracture modelling. This work revealed that in this field, the longitudinal fractures had been parallel to minimum stress (Zagros trend), fracture intensity was the nearest to the major fault and northern flank, fracture porosity was 0-7%, fracture permeability was 0-6000 MD, and more valuable information is provided in this paper.


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