Multi-Tank Material Balance Analysis in Heterogeneous Oil Reservoirs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. C. Molokwu ◽  
M. O. Onyekonwu
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azis Hidayat ◽  
Dwi Hudya Febrianto ◽  
Elisa Wijayanti ◽  
Diniko Nurhajj ◽  
Ahmad Sujai ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Sutoyo ◽  
T. Ariadji ◽  
P. A. Aziz ◽  
M. L. Mahendra

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashirul Haq

Abstract Sour gas reservoirs are vital sources for natural gas production. Sulphur deposition in the reservoir reduces a considerable amount of gas production due to permeability reduction. Consequently, well health monitoring and early prediction of Sulphur deposition are crucial for effective gas production from a sour gas reservoir. Dynamic gas material balance analysis is a useful technique in calculating gas initially in place utilizing the flowing wellhead or bottom hole pressures and rates during the well's lifetime. The approach did not apply to monitor a producing gas's health well and detect Sulphur deposition. This work aims to (i) modify dynamic gas material balance equation by adding the Sulphur deposition term, (ii) build a model to predict and validate the issue utilizing the modified equation. A unique form of the flowing material balance is developed by including Sulphur residue term. The curve fitting tool and modified flowing gas material balance are applied to predict well-expected behaviour. The variation between expected and actual performance indicates the health issue of a well. Initial, individual components of the model are tested. Then the model is validated with the known values. The workflow is applied to active gas field and correctly detected the health issue. The novel workflow can accurately predict Sulphur evidence. Besides,the workflow can notify the production engineers to take corrective measures about the subject. Keywords: Sulfur deposition, Dynamic gas material balance analysis, Workflow


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thang Bui ◽  
Malvinder S. Bandal ◽  
Nurhidayah Hutamin ◽  
Allyson Gajraj

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. West ◽  
P. J. R. Cochrane

Tight shallow gas reservoirs in the Western Canada Basin present a number of unique challenges in accurately determining reserves. Traditional methods such as decline analysis and material balance are inaccurate due to the formations' low permeabilities and poor pressure data. The low permeabilities cause long transient periods not easily separable from production decline using conventional decline analysis. The result is lower confidence in selecting the appropriate decline characteristics (exponential or harmonic) which significantly impacts recovery factors and remaining reserves. Limited, poor quality pressure data and commingled production from the three producing zones results in non representative pressure data and hence inaccurate material balance analysis. This paper presents the merit of two new methods of reserve evaluation which address the problems described above for tight shallow gas in the Medicine Hat field. The first method applies type curve matching which combines the analytical pressure solutions of the diffusivity equation (transient) with the empirical decline equation. The second method is an extended material balance which incorporates the gas deliverability theory to allow the selection of appropriate p/z derivatives without relying on pressure data. Excellent results were obtained by applying these two methodologies to ten properties which gather gas from 2300 wells. The two independent techniques resulted in similar production forecasts and reserves, confirming their validity. They proved to be valuable, practical tools in overcoming the various challenges of tight shallow gas and in improving the accuracy in gas reserves determination in the Medicine Hat field.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph G McNeil ◽  
Aleksandr Antonov ◽  
S. Hamed Tabatabaie ◽  
Louis Mattar

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