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Well Fluid Production and Optimization: by Dr. Vamsi Krishna Kudapa Assistant Professor

This document discusses well fluid production and optimization. It covers reservoir deliverability factors like permeability and pressure. Three main flow regimes are described: transient flow where pressure waves haven't reached boundaries; steady state flow where pressure is constant; and pseudo-steady state flow where pressure declines at a constant rate. Analytical models are presented for calculating production rates under each regime. Horizontal wells are also discussed. Inflow performance relationships are introduced as a way to evaluate reservoir deliverability by graphing production rate against bottom-hole pressure.

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Well Fluid Production and Optimization: by Dr. Vamsi Krishna Kudapa Assistant Professor

This document discusses well fluid production and optimization. It covers reservoir deliverability factors like permeability and pressure. Three main flow regimes are described: transient flow where pressure waves haven't reached boundaries; steady state flow where pressure is constant; and pseudo-steady state flow where pressure declines at a constant rate. Analytical models are presented for calculating production rates under each regime. Horizontal wells are also discussed. Inflow performance relationships are introduced as a way to evaluate reservoir deliverability by graphing production rate against bottom-hole pressure.

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WELL FLUID PRODUCTION AND

OPTIMIZATION
By
Dr. VAMSI KRISHNA KUDAPA
Assistant Professor
PETROLEUM PRODUCTION SYSTEM
• The role of a production engineer is to maximize oil
and gas production in a cost-effective manner.
• As shown in figure, a complete oil or gas production
system consists of a reservoir, well, flowline,
separators, pumps, and transportation pipelines.
• The reservoir supplies wellbore with crude oil or gas.
• The well provides a path for the production fluid to
flow from bottom hole to surface and offers a means
to control the fluid production rate.
RESERVOIR DELIVERABILITY
• Reservoir deliverability is defined as the
oil or gas production rate achievable from
reservoir at a given bottom-hole pressure.
• It is a major factor affecting well
deliverability.
• Reservoir deliverability determines types
of completion and artificial lift methods to
be used.
• Reservoir deliverability depends on several factors
including the following:
1. Reservoir pressure
2. Pay zone thickness and permeability
3. Reservoir boundary type and distance
4. Wellbore radius
5. Reservoir fluid properties
6. Near-wellbore condition
7. Reservoir relative permeabilities
• Reservoir deliverability can be mathematically
modeled on the basis of flow regimes such as
transient flow, steady state flow, and pseudo–
steady state flow.
• An analytical relation between bottom-hole
pressure and production rate can be formulated
for a given flow regime.
• The relation is called ‘‘inflow performance
relationship’’ (IPR).
Flow Regimes
• When a vertical well is open to produce oil at
production rate q, it creates a pressure funnel of
radius r around the wellbore, as illustrated by the
dotted line in Fig 1-a.
• The flow stream lines in the cylindrical region form a
horizontal radial flow pattern as represented in fig
1-b.
Fig 1-a and 1-b
Transient Flow:
• ‘‘Transient flow’’ is defined as a flow regime where/when
the radius of pressure wave propagation from wellbore has
not reached any boundaries of the reservoir.
• During transient flow, the developing pressure funnel is
small relative to the reservoir size.
• Assuming single-phase oil flow in the reservoir, several
analytical solutions have been developed for describing the
transient flow behavior.
• A constant-rate solution expressed by Eq-1 is frequently
used in production engineering.
• Because oil production wells are normally operated at
constant bottom-hole pressure because of constant wellhead
pressure imposed by constant choke size, a constant bottom-
hole pressure solution is more desirable for well inflow
performance analysis.
• Earlougher (1977) developed a constant bottom-hole
pressure solution, which is similar to above eqn which is
used for transient well performance analysis in production
engineering.
• Above Eqn indicates that oil rate decreases with flow time.
• This is because the radius of the pressure funnel, over which
the pressure drawdown (pi - pwf ) acts, increases with time,
that is, the overall pressure gradient in the reservoir drops
with time.
• For gas wells, the transient solution is
where qg is production rate in Mscf/d,
T is temperature in R,
and m(p) is real gas pseudo-pressure defined as
Steady-State Flow:
• ‘‘Steady-state flow’’ is defined as a flow regime where the
pressure at any point in the reservoir remains constant over time.
• This flow condition prevails when the pressure funnel shown in
Fig 1 has propagated to a constant pressure boundary.
• The constant-pressure boundary can be an aquifer or a water
injection well.
• A sketch of the reservoir model is shown in Fig. 2, where pe
represents the pressure at the constant-pressure boundary.
Fig 2: A sketch of reservoir with a
constant pressure boundary.
• Assuming single-phase flow, the following theoretical
relation can be derived from Darcy’s law for an oil reservoir
under the steady-state flow condition due to a circular
constant pressure boundary at distance re from wellbore:
Pseudo–Steady-State Flow:
• ‘‘Pseudo–steady-state’’ flow is defined as a flow regime
where the pressure at any point in the reservoir declines at
the same constant rate over time.
• This flow condition prevails after the pressure funnel shown
in Fig.1 has propagated to all no-flow boundaries.
• A no-flow boundary can be a sealing fault, pinch-out of pay
zone, or boundaries of drainage areas of production wells.
• A sketch of the reservoir model is shown in Fig. 3, where pe
represents the pressure at the no-flow boundary at time t4.
Figure 3: A sketch of a reservoir with
no flow boundaries.
• Assuming single-phase flow, the following theoretical
relation can be derived from Darcy’s law for an oil reservoir
under pseudo–steady-state flow condition due to a circular
no-flow boundary at distance re from wellbore:
Horizontal Well:
• The transient flow, steady-state flow, and pseudo–
steadystate flow can also exist in reservoirs penetrated by
horizontal wells.
• Joshi (1988) presented the following relationship
considering steady-state flow of oil in the horizontal plane
and pseudo–steady-state flow in the vertical plane:
Inflow Performance Relationship:
• IPR is used for evaluating reservoir deliverability in
production engineering.
• The IPR curve is a graphical presentation of the relation
between the flowing bottom-hole pressure and liquid
production rate.
• A typical IPR curve is shown in Fig. 4.
• The magnitude of the slope of the IPR curve is called the
‘‘productivity index’’ (PI or J).
Fig 5: A typical IPR Curve for an Oil
Well

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