A Numerical Model to Study the Formation Damage by Rock Deformation from Well Test Analysis

Author(s):  
Jose Gildardo Osorio ◽  
Alejandro Wills ◽  
Osmar Rene Alcalde
Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jia Zhang ◽  
Shiqing Cheng ◽  
Shiying Di ◽  
Zhanwu Gao ◽  
Rui Yang ◽  
...  

Formation damage usually occurs in near-well regions for injection wells completed in offshore oilfields under the development of line drive patterns. However, current works on characterizing the damage by well test analysis were basically focused on using single-phase analogy to solve two-phase flow issues, resulting in errors on the diagnosis and interpretation of transient pressure data. In this paper, we developed a two-phase model to simulate the pressure transient behavior of a water injection well in a multiwell system. To solve the model more efficiently, we used the finite volume method to discretize partially differential flow equations in a hybrid grid system, including both Cartesian and radial meshes. The fully implicit Newton-Raphson method was also employed to solve the equations in our model. With this methodology, we compared the resulting solutions with a commercial simulator. Our results keep a good agreement with the solutions from the simulator. We then graphed the solutions on a log-log plot and concluded that the effects of transitional zone and interwell interference can be individually identified by analyzing specific flow regimes on the plot. Further, seven scenarios were raised to understand the parameters which dominate the pressure transient behavior of these flow regimes. Finally, we showed a workflow and verified the applicability of our model by demonstrating a case study in a Chinese offshore oilfield. Our model provides a useful tool to reduce errors in the interpretation of pressure transient data derived from injection wells located in a line drive pattern.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Handis Maulana ◽  
Muhammad Taufiq Fathaddin ◽  
Hari Karyadi Oetomo

<p><em>Wells X-1 is a gas condensate well which located in lapangan X, Sulawesi Island. At well X-1 well test was conducted using pressure build up, where the analysis was conducted with objective to determine the reservoir characteristic of X-1 wells such as permeability, skin, flow efficiency and investigation radius. In the pressure build up test, the horner plot and derivation analysis using pseudo pressure and P2 approaches were applied with the gas well X-1 has a reservoir pressure of 2555 psia. The analysis is done using saphir 3.20 and Ms.Excel software where the results of the counsel to see if there is any possibility of formation damage. X-1 is also known as homogeneous with a fault boundary present in the fault located at a certain distance from the well X-1 in which the fault is only one direction from the reservoir. The pressure derivative plot analysis was conducted with two methods such as two-point method and three-point method, where the result of the overlay of the derivative curve corresponds to the deviation of the calculation result method which is less than 10%. The horner plot analysis is also done with the ψ(P) pseudo pressure and P2 approach which is the result of horner plot analysis using pseudo pressure ψ(P) pseudo pressure in saphir 3.20 obtained the slope (m), permeability, and skin values respectively were 3.22432E + 5 psi2/cp, 132 mD, and 21.6, whereas Ms.Excel results obtained the price of slope (m), permeability, and skin respectively were 320890.61 psi2/cp, 134.83 mD, and 21.1. To analyze the horner plot using the P2 approach at saphir 3.20 the value of slope (m), permeability, and skins values respectively were 5495.07 psi2/cp, 125 mD, and 21.3 and for the results of Ms. Excel the price of slope (m), permeability, and skin respectively were 5451.66 psi2/cp, 147,29 mD, and 20,1. Positive skin results in both methods of horner plot and derivative plot indicate the well is damaged and need to be stimulated</em><em>.</em></p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Mustaqim Mokhlis ◽  
Nurdini Alya Hazali ◽  
Muhammad Firdaus Hassan ◽  
Mohd Hafiz Hashim ◽  
Afzan Nizam Jamaludin ◽  
...  

Abstract In this paper we will present a process streamlined for well-test validation that involves data integration between different database systems, incorporated with well models, and how the process can leverage real-time data to present a full scope of well-test analysis to enhance the capability for assessing well-test performance. The workflow process demonstrates an intuitive and effective way for analyzing and validating a production well test via an interactive digital visualization. This approach has elevated the quality and integrity of the well-test data, as well as improved the process cycle efficiency that complements the field surveillance engineers to keep track of well-test compliance guidelines through efficient well-test tracking in the digital interface. The workflow process involves five primary steps, which all are conducted via a digital platform: Well Test Compliance: Planning and executing the well test Data management and integration Well Test Analysis and Validation: Verification of the well test through historical trending, stability period checks, and well model analysis Model validation: Correcting the well test and calibrating the well model before finalizing the validity of the well test Well Test Re-testing: Submitting the rejected well test for retesting and final step Integrating with corporate database system for production allocation This business process brings improvement to the quality of the well test, which subsequently lifts the petroleum engineers’ confidence level to analyze well performance and deliver accurate well-production forecasting. A well-test validation workflow in a digital ecosystem helps to streamline the flow of data and system integration, as well as the way engineers assess and validate well-test data, which results in minimizing errors and increases overall work efficiency.


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