Identification of the Decline in Well Productivity Index due to Wellbore Damage through the Removal of Fluid and Formation Effects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samiha Morsy ◽  
Yan Pan ◽  
Usman Lari ◽  
Wesley Clark ◽  
Erin Mire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Index ◽  
Well Productivity

scholarly journals Well productivity index for compressible fluids and gases

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio Aulisa ◽  
Lidia Bloshanskaya ◽  
Akif Ibragimov
Keyword(s):  
Compressible Fluids ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Well Productivity

New Analytical Approach to Operational Assessment of Fractured Well Productivity with Variable Permeability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Viktorovich Yudin ◽  
George Aleksandrovich Piotrovskiy ◽  
Maria Vladimirovna Petrova ◽  
Alexey Petrovich Roshchektaev ◽  
Nikita Vladislavovich Shtrobel
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Hydraulic Fracture ◽  
Free Parameter ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Finite Conductivity ◽  
Well Productivity ◽  
Fracture Conductivity ◽  
Variable Permeability

Abstract Requirements of targeted optimization are imposed on the hydraulic fracturing operations carried out in the conditions of borderline economic efficiency of fields taking into account geological and technological features. Consequently, the development of new analytical tools foranalyzing and planning the productivity of fractured wells, taking into account the structuralfeatures of the productive reservoir and inhomogeneous distribution of the fracture conductivity, is becoming highly relevant. The paper proposes a new approach of assessing the vertical hydraulic fracture productivityin a rectangular reservoir in a pseudo-steady state, based on reservoir resistivity concept described in the papers of Meyer et al. However, there is a free parameter in the case of modeling the productivity of a hydraulic fracture by the concept. The parameter describes the distribution of the inflow along the plane of the fracture. This paper presents a systematic approach to determining of the parameter. The resulting model allows to conduct an assessment of the influence of various complications in the fracture on the productivity index. During the research a method of determining the free parameter was developed,it was based on the obtained dependence of the inflow distribution on the coordinate along the fracture of finite conductivity. The methodology allowed to refine existent analytical solution of the Meyer et al. model, which, in turn, allowed to assess the influence of different fracture damages in the hydraulic fracture on the productivity index of the well. The work includes the cases of the presence of fracture damages at the beginning and at the end of the fracture. A hydraulic fracture model was built for each of the types of damages, it was based on the developed method, and also the solution of dimensionless productivity ratio was received. The results of the obtained solution were confirmed by comparison with the numerical solutions of commercial simulators and analytical models available in the literature. The advantage of the methodology is the resulting formulas for well productivity are relatively simple, even for exotic cases ofvariable conductivity fractures. The approaches and algorithms described in the paper assume the calculation of the productivity of a hydraulic fracture with variable conductivity and the presence of other complicatingfactors.The methodology of the paper can be used for analysis and diagnosis problems with formation hydraulic fracturing. The efficiency of the calculations allows using the presented methodology to solve inverse problems of determining the efficiency of the hydraulic fracturing operation.

Well Productivity Index Determination Based on Artificial Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.P. Gruzdev ◽  
V.N. Babov ◽  
A.V. Kosarev ◽  
Y.P. Simonov ◽  
I.V. Simon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Well Productivity ◽  
Artificial Neural

The Well Productivity Index Determination Based on Machine Learning Approaches

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gruzdev ◽  
V. Babov ◽  
Y. Simonov ◽  
A. Kosarev ◽  
I. Simon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Well Productivity

scholarly journals Productivity Evaluation for Long Horizontal Well Test in Deep-Water Faulted Sandstone Reservoir

Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zhiwang Yuan ◽  
Li Yang ◽  
Yingchun Zhang ◽  
Rui Duan ◽  
Xu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Test Time ◽  
Well Test ◽  
Well Productivity ◽  
Sandstone Reservoir

For deep-water faulted sandstone reservoirs, the general practice is to design long horizontal wells improving well productivity. During the project implementation stage, well tests are performed on all drilled wells to evaluate well productivity accurately. Furthermore, multisize chokes are often utilized in a shorten test time for loosen formation, high test cost, and high well productivity. Nevertheless, the conventional productivity evaluation approach cannot accurately evaluate the well test productivity and has difficulty in determining the underneath pattern. As a result, the objective of this paper is to determine a productivity evaluation method for multisize chokes long horizontal well test in deep-water faulted sandstone reservoir. This approach introduces a productivity model for long horizontal wells in faulted sandstone reservoir. It also includes the determination of steady-state test time and the productivity evaluation method for multisize chokes. In this paper, the EGINA Oilfield, a deep-water faulted sandstone reservoir, located in West Africa was chosen as the research target. Based on Renard and Dupuy’s steady-state equation, the relationship between the productivity index per meter and the length of horizontal section was derived. Consequently, this relationship is used to determine the productivity pattern for long horizontal wells with the same geological features, which can provide more accurate productivity evaluations for tested wells and forecast the well productivity for untested wells. After implementing this approach on the EGINA Oilfield, the determined relationship is capable to accurately evaluate the test productivity for long horizontal wells in reservoirs with similar characteristics and assist in examination and treatment for horizontal wells with abnormal productivity.

Productivity-Maximized Horizontal-Well Design With Multiple Acute-Angle Transverse Fractures

SPE Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (05) ◽  
pp. 1539-1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Sorek ◽  
Jose A. Moreno ◽  
Ryan N. Rice ◽  
Guofan Luo ◽  
Christine Ehlig-Economides
Keyword(s):  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Acute Angle ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Hydraulic Fractures ◽  
Flow Area ◽  
Well Productivity ◽  
Fracture Angle ◽  
Fracture Length ◽  
Stress Direction ◽  
Minimum Stress

Summary Hydraulic fractures propagate perpendicular to the horizontal-well axis whenever the drilling direction is parallel to the minimum-principal-stress direction. However, operators frequently drill horizontal wells parallel to lease boundaries, resulting in hydraulic-fracture vertical planes slanted at angles less than 90° from the well axis. The stimulated-rock-volume (SRV) dimensions are defined by fracture height, well length, and fracture length multiplied by the sine of the angle between fracture planes and the horizontal-well axis (fracture angle). The well productivity index (PI) under boundary-dominated flow (BDF) is given by the PI for one fully penetrating fracture multiplied by the number of fractures. An extension of the unified-fracture-design (UFD) approach for rectangular drainage areas enables determination of the unique number of fractures that will maximize well productivity under BDF conditions given the formation permeability, proppant mass, fracture angle, and well spacing. Fracture length and width vary depending on the fracture angle, but the total-propped-fracture volume remains constant. Because the likely reason for drilling at an angle to the minimum-stress direction is to better cover a lease area with north/south and east/west boundaries, the smallest fracture angle will be 45°, corresponding to northwest/southeast or northeast/southwest minimum-stress direction. This results in the need to lengthen fractures by at most 40% to preserve the SRV for a given horizontal-well length and spacing. For the same sufficiently large proppant mass, this will reduce fracture conductivity by the same factor. However, because the flow area has increased, the result will be greater well productivity. This study shows a simple strategy for designing wells to maximize productivity even when not drilled in the minimum-stress direction.

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