Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure
Abstract Well-test operation with a constant flow rate for long-time production is not typical in practice. Therefore, reservoirs frequently produce fluids with constant pressure at the wellhead, into a constant pressure separator or pipeline. During the production under this condition, the pressure...
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| description | Abstract Well-test operation with a constant flow rate for long-time production is not typical in practice. Therefore, reservoirs frequently produce fluids with constant pressure at the wellhead, into a constant pressure separator or pipeline. During the production under this condition, the pressure drop at the wellbore varies as a function of the rate because of changes in the friction flow; therefore, the wellbore formation pressure is not constant. As a consequence, the wellbore storage effect emerges and should be incorporated in the modeling of fluid flow under production at a constant wellhead pressure. All available methods considering the wellbore storage effect can merely be applied for production under the constant rate condition. Moreover, well-test modeling under these circumstances needs a specific function for production rate, which made this type of well-testing less common. Even though there are exact solutions for production under the constant wellbore pressure in the Laplace domain, their inverse transform is quite complex and cannot be applied for modeling the wellbore storage effect. In this study, a new function is introduced as an approximate solution of the diffusivity equation, for a well that produces at a constant wellbore pressure, using multiple steps of the optimization process. Consequently, an efficient correlation is developed for flow rate about or concerning this condition. Next, the effect of the wellbore storage at constant pressure well-test operation was enumerated for the first time, which was commonly neglected in previous studies. This endeavor concentrated on modeling the two types of well-test operation, producing at constant wellhead pressure and, pressure build-up following the production at a constant wellhead pressure (constant pressure Build-up test). The results were also verified with numerical simulation as well as field data further confirming the excellent accuracy of developed solutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-20841e8099d144318767088cbf763d2a2023-11-26T13:03:36ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222023-10-0113111910.1038/s41598-023-44678-3Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressureMobarakeh Mohammadpour0Parisa Behnoud1Mohammad Reza Khorsand Movaghar2Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)Abstract Well-test operation with a constant flow rate for long-time production is not typical in practice. Therefore, reservoirs frequently produce fluids with constant pressure at the wellhead, into a constant pressure separator or pipeline. During the production under this condition, the pressure drop at the wellbore varies as a function of the rate because of changes in the friction flow; therefore, the wellbore formation pressure is not constant. As a consequence, the wellbore storage effect emerges and should be incorporated in the modeling of fluid flow under production at a constant wellhead pressure. All available methods considering the wellbore storage effect can merely be applied for production under the constant rate condition. Moreover, well-test modeling under these circumstances needs a specific function for production rate, which made this type of well-testing less common. Even though there are exact solutions for production under the constant wellbore pressure in the Laplace domain, their inverse transform is quite complex and cannot be applied for modeling the wellbore storage effect. In this study, a new function is introduced as an approximate solution of the diffusivity equation, for a well that produces at a constant wellbore pressure, using multiple steps of the optimization process. Consequently, an efficient correlation is developed for flow rate about or concerning this condition. Next, the effect of the wellbore storage at constant pressure well-test operation was enumerated for the first time, which was commonly neglected in previous studies. This endeavor concentrated on modeling the two types of well-test operation, producing at constant wellhead pressure and, pressure build-up following the production at a constant wellhead pressure (constant pressure Build-up test). The results were also verified with numerical simulation as well as field data further confirming the excellent accuracy of developed solutions.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44678-3 |
| spellingShingle | Mobarakeh Mohammadpour Parisa Behnoud Mohammad Reza Khorsand Movaghar Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure Scientific Reports |
| title | Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure |
| title_full | Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure |
| title_fullStr | Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure |
| title_full_unstemmed | Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure |
| title_short | Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure |
| title_sort | develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44678-3 |
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