Abstract
Background When producing oil and gas, the development of formations with contact reserves must be carried out by methods that exclude or minimize the likelihood of water coning formation. Water coning is formed as a result of lowering the bottomhole pressure to a certain value, at which water breakthrough occurs, which means that the pressure gradient has exceeded the gravity gradient, viscous and capillary forces. Aims and Objectives Analyzing various mathematical approaches to assessing the phenomenon of water coning in vertical wells. Results The analysis showed that most of the methods have a general tendency to reduce the maximum water-free production rate to zero when the fractional wellbore penetration tends to be one. This fact suggests that the water cone will form with full penetration of the oil-saturated thickness in a reservoir with contact reserves at any value of oil production rate.
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