Abstract

This Gs64 gas reservoir is a condensate gas reservoir which is relatively integrated with low porosity and low permeability found in Dagang Oilfield in recent years. The condensate content is as high as 610g/m3. At present, there are few reports about the well spacing of similar gas reservoirs at home and abroad. Therefore, determining the reasonable well spacing of the gas reservoir is important for ensuring the optimal development effect and economic benefit of the gas field development. This paper discusses the reasonable well spacing of the deep and low permeability gas reservoir from the aspects of percolation mechanics, gas reservoir engineering and numerical simulation. considering there exist the start-up pressure gradient in percolation process of low permeability gas reservoir, this paper combined with productivity equation under starting pressure gradient, established the formula of gas well spacing with the formation pressure and start-up pressure gradient. The calculation formula of starting pressure gradient and well spacing of gas wells. Adopting various methods to calculate values of gas reservoir spacing are close to well testing' radius, so the calculation method is reliable, which is very important for the determination of reasonable well spacing in low permeability gas reservoirs.

Highlights

  • The determination of well spacing in low permeability gas reservoirs is the key parameter for its economic and reasonable development

  • Li Shuang [2], Wang Xiuzhi [3] and others did not consider the influence of starting pressure gradient, and adopted economic limit control reserve method, single well area method and numerical simulation method to discuss the reasonable well spacing of low permeability gas reservoir

  • Guoqi [4] considered the influence of starting pressure gradient, deduced the formula for calculating reasonable well spacing of low permeability gas reservoir, but the calculation parameters are too many and the calculation is complicated

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Summary

Introduction

The determination of well spacing in low permeability gas reservoirs is the key parameter for its economic and reasonable development. Gas percolation far away from bottom hole area appears low speed non-Darcy percolation, and how long distance away from bottom hole the gas can overcome starting pressure gradient to flow, that is the gas well spacing which we need to calculate. Li Shuang [2], Wang Xiuzhi [3] and others did not consider the influence of starting pressure gradient, and adopted economic limit control reserve method, single well area method and numerical simulation method to discuss the reasonable well spacing of low permeability gas reservoir. In this paper, starting from low speed non-Darcy seepage flow and combining with single well productivity equation, the control radius of single well considering starting pressure gradient is derived, combined with various methods of gas reservoir engineering and numerical simulation, The reasonable well spacing of low permeability gas reservoir is determined synthetically, the calculation is simple and the result is reliable

Geological characteristics
Seepage mechanics method
Gas reservoir engineering method
Geological modeling and historical fitting
Comparison of different well spacing schemes
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