GAS-CONDENSATE FLUID PVT MODEL QUALITY CHECK BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF A SINGLE-CELL SIMULATION MODEL

Abstract

The problems of gas-condensate PVT-models (Pressure Volume Temperature, PVT) creation under limited input information were analyzed. Traditional fluid phase behavior characterization approach relies on creation of the equation of state (EOS) based on initial composition of reservoir fluid and its future regression for critical parameters (pressure and temperature), binary interaction coefficients, acentric factors of residual “plus” fraction or pseudo-components. The adjustment is done until the moment when EOS is reproducing the results of laboratory experiments. Classic PVT experiments performed on gas-condensates and volatile oils are constant composition expansion (CCE), constant volume depletion (CVD) and separator tests. However, in the case of most Ukrainian fields, discovered and explored in the last century, not only the reliable detailed initial fluid composition is not available, but phase behavior was studied with non-equilibrium method of so-called differential condensation, that does not allow their direct application for PVT models creation. Previously, the authors [1, 2] presented an alternative method for fluid characterization based on the fractional distillation test. At the same time, due to significant uncertainty in input data, particularly a) condensate production allocation; b) commingled production from multiple reservoirs with different C5+ yield; c) non-recorded change of separator conditions that affects liquid extraction and its density; d) technological production losses, issues of reproducing the condensate production during history matching of several models of Dniper-Donetsk Basin were faced. There was proposed and explained in detail an example of single-cell reservoir simulation model application concept for quality check of created PVT model for one of the fields with potential yield of 86 g/m3. The idea of the concept is based on the reproduction of material balance of gas-condensate reservoir through one conditional well controlled on a primary (gas) phase, that allows quick identification of changes into calculated gas-condensate yield curve, necessary for matching of condensate production. Implementation of these changes allows quick and precise full-field model calibration.