Open AccessPredicting Stabilized Oil Well Inflow Performance Relationship on Unconventional Reservoir
Author(s) -
Amega Yasutra,
L. Devid Julyanop Purwanto
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of earth energy engineering/journal of earth energy engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2540-9352
pISSN - 2301-8097
DOI - 10.25299/jeee.2021.5636
Subject(s) - inflow , permeability (electromagnetism) , reservoir modeling , transient flow , exponent , petroleum engineering , flow (mathematics) , reservoir simulation , porosity , mathematics , geology , mechanics , geotechnical engineering , surge , chemistry , physics , geometry , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy , geomorphology , membrane
Unconventional reservoirs are described as any reservoir that requires special recovery operations asides the conventional operating practices. However, low permeability affects the time it requires to attain stability. Presently, most of deliverability test is only carried out in a maximum 24-hour time. Limited test time makes it almost impossible to attain the reservoir stabilization time while carrying out the deliverability test. Meanwhile, to construct Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR) curve, the properties from stabilized time are required. This study aims to discuss how to predict the IPR curve by determining the stabilized flow coefficient value (C) on unconventional reservoir. Furthermore, the stabilized C was used to determine the Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR) for low porosity and permeability reservoir model, also known as Tight Oil Reservoir. The stabilized time and deliverability exponent value need to be determined before the stabilized C value. The stabilized time also know as pseudo-steady state time was evaluated from John Lee and Chaudry equation with validation from the reservoir model. The method proposed by Hashem and Kazemi, which employed the use of transient data in determining the flow coefficient value was also used. In addition, deliverability exponent (n) was determined using an equation proposed by Johnston and Lee. Furthermore, the backpressure equation from Rawlins and Schellhardt was used to construct the IPR curve.