A new production predicting model of fractured horizontal wells in dual-porosity gas reservoirs on non-Darcy flow conditions

Abstract

Dual-porosity is a common method to model natural fractured reservoirs or complex fracture network after volume hydraulic fracturing. To analyze the productivity of fractured horizontal gas wells, a new volumetric source model with high velocity non-Darcy flow in hydraulic fractures is developed. The basic volumetric source function is solved by utilizing orthogonal transformation in real space, which solves the problem that the non-linear equation (indicating non-Darcy effect) cannot adopt Laplace transformation. The volumetric source model is verified by the tri-linear flow model and a field example. Results shows increasing width of hydraulic fractures and enlarging size of proppant have significant effect on weaken non-Darcy flow. The volumetric source model is a fast and accurate method to predict the productivity. In addition, this model can provide a more reasonable method to optimize hydraulic fracturing considering non-Darcy flow effect.