Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper presents an approximate analytical method to investigate the behavior of a water or a gas cone and to predict the breakthrough time. For long horizontal wells and large drainage radius, the method presented here requires only a numerical integration of simple trigonometric functions and is considerably simpler than the existing analytical methods. The results are also presented in the form of simplified correlations which can provide quick engineering estimates of the breakthrough time before detailed simulation studies. The method can be applied to both horizontal and vertical wells and permits us to compare horizontal and vertical well performances.

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