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- OIL/GAS WELL MULTIRATE DRAWDOWN PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
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-
- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
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-
- PURPOSE: TO ANALYZE VARIABLE RATE FLOW DATA FOR HYDRAULICALLY FRACTURED
- WELLS, ACIDIZED WELLS, OR NATURAL COMPLETIONS. THE PROGRAM
- DETERMINES PERMEABILITY, SKIN FACTOR, FRACTURE HALF LENGTH,
- FRACTURE CAPACITY, RESERVOIR SIZE, TIME REQUIRED TO REACH
- REACH BOUNDARY, AND DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR. FOR GAS WELLS IT WILL
- ALSO ANALYZE WELLBORE/FRACTURE STORAGE VOLUME AND TURBULENCE.
-
- OPTIONS: (1) FRACTURE FLOW ANALYSIS - FOR FRACTURED WELLS WITH LIMITED
- CONDUCTIVITY FRACTURES, IT WILL DETERMINE FRACTURE HALF
- LENGTH AND FRACTURE CAPACITY (ACTUAL & DIMENSIONLESS).
- (2) RADIAL FLOW ANALYSIS - FOR NATURAL COMPLETIONS OR FRACTURED
- WELLS IN TRANSIENT PSEUDORADIAL FLOW, IT WILL DETERMINE
- PERMEABILITY, SKIN FACTOR, EFFECTIVE WELLBORE RADIUS,
- STORAGE VOLUME, AND NON-DARCY FLOW COEFFICIENT.
- (3) PSEUDO STEADY STATE ANALYSIS - IT WILL DETERMINE THE
- RESERVOIR SIZE, RESERVES IN PLACE, RADIUS OF DRAINAGE,
- AND DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR.
-
- INPUT: INITIAL RESERVOIR PRESSURE
- PRESSURE DRAWDOWN TEST DATA (TIMES, B.H. PRESSURES AND RATES)
- RESERVOIR TEMPERATURE
- TOTAL POROSITY, CRITICAL WATER SATURATION & NET PAY
-
- ADDITIONAL INPUT FOR GAS WELLS:
- GAS GRAVITY
- DEPTH AND FLOWSTRING I.D. (I.E. WELLBORE STORAGE VOLUME)
- FRACTURE STORAGE VOLUME
- NON-DARCY FLOW COEFFICIENT (F)
-
- ADDITIONAL INPUT FOR OIL WELLS:
- OIL FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR
- OIL VISCOSITY
- OIL COMPRESSIBILITY
-
- OUTPUT: PERMEABILITY
- SKIN FACTOR & EFFECTIVE WELLBORE RADIUS
- FRACTURE HALF LENGTH & FRACTURE CAPACITY
- PROVED RESERVOIR SIZE (ACRES, DRAINAGE RADIUS, AND RESERVES)
- TIME REQUIRED TO REACH RESERVOIR BOUNDARY
- DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR
-
- USES: (1) CAN ANALYZE GAS WELLS, GAS/CONDENSATE WELLS, OIL WELLS,
- OIL/WATER WELLS, AND WATER WELLS.
- (2) CAN ANALYZE VARIABLE FLOW RATE DATA FROM ANY SOURCE,
- INCLUDING DRILL STEM TESTS, COMPLETION REPORTS, DAILY
- GAUGE REPORTS, FOUR POINT TESTS & BOTTOM HOLE BOMBS.
- EVEN SHUT INS CAN BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE FLOW DATA.
- (3) CAN DETERMINE THE NEED OR EFFECTIVENESS OF STIMULATION
- IN TERMS OF THE SKIN FACTOR, FRACTURE LENGTH, FRACTURE
- CONDUCTIVITY, AND THE EFFECTIVE WELLBORE SIZE.
- (4) CAN DETERMINE THE INSITU PERMEABILITY OF THE RESERVOIR.
- (5) RESERVOIR SIZE CAN BE DETERMINED FASTER THAN CONVENTIONAL
- METHODS (P/Z FOR GAS OR MATERIAL BALANCE FOR OIL).
- (6) CAN USE RESULTS AS INPUT FOR GAS WELL RESERVOIR SIMULATOR
-
-
- THEORY: (1) PRESSURE FUNCTIONS ARE EVALUATED USING REAL GAS PSEUDO
- PRESSURES, I.E. THE M(P) FUNCTION OF AL-HUSSAINY.
- (2) TIME FUNCTIONS ARE EVALUATED USING SUPERPOSITION.
- (3) VARIABLE RATES ARE NORMALIZED USING THE THEORIES OF
- A.S. ODEH AND L.G. JONES.
- (3) PERMEABILITY AND SKIN FACTOR ARE EVALUATED BY PSEUDO
- HORNER ANALYSIS.
- (4) DIMENSIONLESS FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY (Fcd) IS DEFINED
- BY AGARWAL (SPE #6838) AND GENERALLY RANGES FROM ABOUT
- 0.01 FOR VERY LOW CONDUCTIVITY FRACTURES TO ABOUT 500
- FOR VERY HIGH CONDUCTIVITY FRACTURES.
- (5) FRACTURE PROPERTIES ARE EVALUATED USING CORRELATIONS
- DEVELOPED BY J. O. SCOTT WHICH RELATE THE TRANSIENT
- PRERADIAL LOG-LOG SLOPE TO FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY AND
- FRACTURE HALF LENGTH.
- (6) WELLBORE STORAGE EFFECTS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR USING THE
- THEORIES OF H.J. RAMEY JR. AND R.E. GLADFELTER.
- (7) NON-DARCY FLOW FACTORS ARE EVALUATED USING THE
- THEORIES OF G.W. SWIFT, O.G. KIEL AND H.J. RAMEY JR.
- (8) RESERVOIR SIZE IS EVALUATED USING THE THEORIES OF
- PARK JONES AND R.C. EARLOUGHER, JR.
- (9) DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR IS EVALUATED USING THE THEORIES OF
- D.N. DIETZ. THIS SHAPE FACTOR USES INPUT FROM BOTH
- TRANSIENT AND PSEUDOSTEADY STATE FLOW. HENCE, IT SERVES
- AS AN EXCELLENT CHECK TO VERIFY THE REASONABLENESS OF
- THE SELECTION OF BOTH FLOW PERIODS.
-
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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-
- THE DISK WHICH YOU PURCHASED MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH FREE SPACE LEFT
- TO RUN THE DRAWDOWN.EXE MODULE. IN ORDER TO INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE
- PLEASE FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
-
- IF YOU HAVE A HARD DRIVE SIMPLY COPY THIS DISK TO YOUR HARD DRIVE
- THEN IT IS READY TO RUN.
-
- IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HARD DRIVE, THEN COPY DRAWDOWN.EXE ALONG WITH
- PLOT, TABL, AND CALC TO A SECOND FLOPPY DISK. THEN COPY EVERYTHING
- ELSE TO A THIRD FLOPPY DISK. WHEN YOU HAVE AN INPUT DATA FILE READY
- TO RUN THEN COPY IT TO THE SECOND FLOPPY DISK. THEN RUN DRAWDOWN.EXE
- FROM THE SECOND DISK. YOU MAY ALSO NEED TO COPY YOUR PRINT.COM TO
- THE SECOND DISK TO GET PRINTOUTS.
-
-
- DEFINITION OF INPUT VARIABLES
- -----------------------------
-
- TOTAL POROSITY - IS THE POROSITY OBTAINED FROM WELL LOG INTERPRETATION
-
- CRITICAL WATER SATURATION FOR GAS WELLS - IF THE WELL DOES NOT PRODUCE
- ANY FLUIDS THEN USE THE INITIAL WATER SATURATION OBTAINED FROM THE
- LOGS. IF THE WELL PRODUCES FLUIDS THEN USE THE CRITICAL WATER
- SATURATION WHICH WILL BE LESS THAN THE INITIAL WATER SATURATION.
-
- CRITICAL WATER SATURATION FOR OIL WELLS - IF THE WELL DOES NOT PRODUCE
- ANY WATER THEN USE THE INITIAL WATER SATURATION OBTAINED FROM THE
- LOGS. IF THE WELL PRODUCES WATER THEN USE THE CRITICAL WATER
- SATURATION WHICH WILL BE LESS THAN THE INITIAL WATER SATURATION.
-
- CRITICAL WATER SATURATION FOR WATER WELLS - ALWAYS USE THE CRITICAL
- WATER SATURATION WHICH WILL BE LESS THAN THE INITIAL WATER SATURATION.
-
- EXECUTABLE MODULES
- ------------------
-
- YOU WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXECUTABLE MODULES:
-
- DRAWDOWN - THIS PERFORMS A VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN ANALYSIS ON ANY WELL.
- THIS IS THE MAIN MODULE WHICH WILL ANALYZE FLOW DATA FOR
- GAS WELLS, GAS/CONDENSATE WELLS, OIL WELLS, OIL/WATER WELLS,
- AND WATER WELLS. BE SURE THAT A DATA FILE ALREADY EXISTS
- FOR THE WELL YOU WANT TO ANALYZE BEFORE RUNNING THIS MODULE.
- DRAWDOWN DATA FILES CAN BE CREATED WITH EITHER DDINPUT1.EXE,
- DDINPUT2.EXE OR DDREPEAT.EXE WHICH ARE ALL EXPLAINED BELOW.
- IF YOU ARE GOING TO ANALYZE AN OIL WELL, AN OIL/WATER WELL,
- OR A WATER WELL THEN ALSO BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE RUN THE
- OILPROP.EXE MODULE FIRST IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE NECESSARY
- FLUID PROPERTIES WHICH YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR.
-
- DDINPUT1 - USE THIS MODULE IF YOU HAVE DATA FROM A BOTTOM HOLE BOMB.
- YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR BASIC INFORMATION, AND EACH
- DATA FLOW POINTS CUMULATIVE TIME, FLUID RATES (OIL, GAS
- AND WATER), AND THE BOTTOM HOLE FLOWING PRESSURE. THIS
- MODULE CAN BE USED FOR GAS WELLS, GAS/CONDENSATE WELLS,
- WELLS, OIL WELLS, OIL/WATER WELLS, AND WATER WELLS.
-
- DDINPUT2 - THIS MODULE CAN ONLY BE USED FOR GAS WELLS OR FOR
- GAS/CONDENSATE WELLS. USE THIS MODULE IF YOU HAVE
- SURFACE FLOWING PRESSURES TO ANALYZE. THIS MODULE
- WILL ESTIMATE THE BOTTOM HOLE SHUTIN PRESSURES AND
- SAVE THEM IN THE INPUT DATA FILE. YOU WILL BE PROMPTED
- FOR BASIC INFORMATION, INITIAL RESERVOIR PRESSURE,
- AND OTHER PARAMETERS NEEDED TO CALCULATE BOTTOM HOLE
- PRESSURES FROM SURFACE PRESSURES SUCH AS WELL DEPTH,
- GAS GRAVITY, OIL GRAVITY, TUBING I.D., BOTTOM HOLE
- TEMP., ETC. THIS MODULE IS COMMONLY USED TO ANALYZE
- ROUTINELY COLLECTED PRODUCTION DATA REPORTED ON DAILY
- GAUGE REPORTS. THIS MODULE WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER THE
- TIME AS A DATE (MONTH, DAY & YR), IN DAYS, OR IN HOURS.
-
- DDREPEAT - THIS MODULE CAN ONLY BE USED FOR GAS WELLS OR FOR
- GAS/CONDENSATE WELLS. USE THIS MODULE IF YOU WANT TO
- ADJUST OR ADD ANY DATA. FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN ADJUST THE
- DEPTH, TUBING ID, GAS GRAVITY, OIL API, RESERVOIR TEMP,
- PRESSURE DROP FACTOR, OR WELLHEAD SHUT IN PRESSURE. YOU
- CAN ALSO ADD NEW DATA POINTS WITH ANY TEXT EDITOR. THE
- ONLY FIELDS YOU NEED TO ENTER ARE GAS RATE, CHOKE, WHFP,
- BOPD, BWPD, AND DATE. THE DDREPEAT MODULE WILL RECALCULATE
- THE CUM DAYS, BHFP, Z, BHP/Z, CUM GAS, CUM GE, GIP, AND
- GE GIP FOR ALL DATA POINTS. IT WILL ALSO RECALCULATE THE
- IBHSIP, Zi, AND P/Zi. THIS MODULE CAN ONLY BE USED IF THE
- DRAWDOWN DATA FILE CONTAINS THE MONTH, DAY & YEAR FIELDS.
-
- OILPROP - THIS MODULE IS USED TO ESTIMATE THE RESERVOIR FLUID
- PROPERTIES IF A FLUID ANALYSIS IS NOT AVAILABLE. IT
- USES STANDARD CORRELATIONS TO ESTIMATE FLUID PROPERTIES
- SUCH AS FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR, COMPRESSIBILITY, AND
- VISCOSITY FOR BOTH OIL AND WATER. IT CAN ALSO BE USED
- TO ESTIMATE THE INITIAL BUBBLE POINT PRESSURE IF IT IS
- NOT KNOWN. IN ORDER TO GET A PRINTOUT OF THE RESULTS
- BE SURE TO TYPE "Ctrl-PrtSc" PRIOR TO RUNNING THIS
- MODULE. BE SURE TO TYPE "Ctrl-PrtSc" AGAIN WHEN YOU
- ARE FINISHED.
-
- DATA FILES
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-
- YOU WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING INPUT DATA FILES:
-
- GASWELL.DD (SAMPLE GAS DRAWDOWN ANALYSIS)
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-
- YOU MAY WANT TO LEARN TO USE THIS PROGRAM BY USING THIS
- SAMPLE DATA FILE. IF YOU DO THEN USE THE FOLLOWING INPUT
- PARAMETERS: GAS GRAVITY (0.576), BOTTOM HOLE TEMP (284 F),
- API OIL GRAVITY (60 DEG), FRACTIONAL WATER SATURATION (0.30),
- TOTAL FRACTIONAL POROSITY (0.0782), NET PAY (34 FT), WELL
- DEPTH (14907 FT), TUBING I.D. (2.441 IN.) & INITIAL RESERVOIR
- PRESSURE (12435 PSI).
-
- IF YOU HAVE A DEMO DISK, THEN SOME OF THESE PARAMETERS WILL
- NOT BE ABLE TO BE CHANGED EVEN FROM THE PROMPTS. OTHERWISE,
- THE DEMO DISK WILL DO EVERYTHING ELSE THE ACTUAL PROGRAM
- DOES. REASONABLE POINTS TO SELECT FROM FIGURE 3 ARE J AND L.
- REASONABLE POINTS TO SELECT FROM FIGURE 2 ARE N AND P.
- REASONABLE POINTS TO SELECT FROM FIGURE 4 ARE A AND E. NOTE
- THAT THE POINTS ARE CASE SENSITIVE.
-
- THIS DATA COMES FROM DAILY GAUGE REPORTS ON AN ACTUAL GAS
- WELL DRILLED ON 640 ACRE SPACING. YOU SHOULD OBTAIN A
- RESERVOIR SIZE CLOSE TO 640 ACRES. THE PERMEABILITY SHOULD
- BE ABOUT 0.20 MD WITH A SKIN OF ABOUT -5.3.
-
- OILWELL.DD (SAMPLE OIL DRAWDOWN ANALYSIS)
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-
- YOU MAY WANT TO LEARN TO USE THIS PROGRAM BY USING THIS
- SAMPLE DATA FILE. IF YOU DO THEN USE THE FOLLOWING INPUT
- PARAMETERS: FVF or Bo (1.25), RESERVOIR PRESSURE (3253 PSI),
- BOTTOM HOLE TEMP (260 F), FRACTIONAL WATER SATURATION (0.25),
- TOTAL FRACTIONAL POROSITY (0.15), NET PAY (30 FT), OIL
- VISCOSITY (1.0), AND OIL COMPRESSIBILITY (12.5).
-
- IF YOU HAVE A DEMO DISK, THEN SOME OF THESE PARAMETERS WILL
- NOT BE ABLE TO BE CHANGED EVEN FROM THE PROMPTS. OTHERWISE,
- THE DEMO DISK WILL DO EVERYTHING ELSE THE ACTUAL PROGRAM
- DOES. REASONABLE POINTS TO SELECT FROM FIGURE 3 ARE A AND D.
- REASONABLE POINTS TO SELECT FROM FIGURE 2 ARE D AND F.
- REASONABLE POINTS TO SELECT FROM FIGURE 4 ARE A AND B. NOTE
- THAT THE POINTS ARE CASE SENSITIVE.
-
-
- NEW DATA FILES WITH THE SAME FORMAT AS THOSE INCLUDED CAN BE CREATED
- BY EXECUTING EITHER DDINPUT1 OR DDINPUT2.
-
- WHEN CREATING A NEW INPUT DATA FILE WITH EITHER DDINPUT1 OR DDINPUT2
- ENTER UP TO AN 8 CHARACTER ALPHANUMERIC NAME FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD AND
- UP TO A 3 CHARACTER ALPHANUMERIC NAME. FOR EXAMPLE IF THE NAME OF THE
- WELL YOU ARE GOING TO ANALYZE IS ANNA #1-12, THEN FOR AN INPUT FILE
- NAME YOU MIGHT ENTER "ANNA1-12.DD" AT THE PROMPT.
-
- DATA LIMITATIONS
- ----------------
-
- A MAXIMUM OF 365 FLOW DATA POINTS MAY BE USED BY THE PROGRAM
- FOR AN ANALYSIS.
-
- HOWEVER, A MAXIMUM OF 1000 FLOW DATA POINTS MAY BE IN THE INPUT
- DATA FILE.
-
- DATA POINTS MAY BE SKIPPED FROM BEING READ BY THE PROGRAM BY
- SIMPLY TYPING " SKIP" IMMEDIATELY AFTER AN INPUT LINE IN THE
- DATA FILE AS SHOWN IN THE SAMPLE DATA FILE BELOW. THIS IS DONE
- AFTER THE INPUT FILE IS CREATED WITH ANY TEXT EDITOR.
-
- IT IS COMMON TO SKIP DATA POINTS WHICH ARE ADJACENT TO ONE ANOTHER
- AND HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME VALUES FOR RATE, PRESSURE AND TIME
- IF YOU ARE CONSTRAINED BY THE 180 DATA POINT LIMITATION.
-
- TWO CONSECUTIVE SHUT IN DATA POINTS ARE NOT ALLOWED. IF YOU HAVE
- ALREADY CREATED YOUR DATA FILE WITH THESE POINTS SIMPLY PUT A
- "SKIP" ON ALL BUT THE LAST SHUTIN POINT FOR EACH GROUP OF SHUT INS.
-
-
- SAMPLE DATA FILE
- ----------------
-
- BELOW IS PART OF THE OILWELL.DD INPUT DATA FILE. IT DEMONSTRATES
- HOW TO SKIP SELECTED INPUT DATA POINTS FROM BEING ANALYZED. NOTE
- THAT ONLY THE DATA POINT AT .015 DAYS IS SKIPPED SINCE IT HAS "SKIP"
- IN THE SKIP FIELD. ALL THE REST OF THE POINTS ONLY HAVE "SK P".
-
-
- OILWELL #1
- BLACK GOLD OIL CO.
- SEC 3-12N-18W
- CUSTER CO., OK. 3253.0 = EST BHSIP
- RED FORK
- 01/01/91 INITIAL FLOW TEST
- CUM DAYS MCFD BHFP SKIP CHOKE WHFP BOPD BWPD
- .015 .0 3216.0 SKIP 850.0 .0
- .031 .0 3198.0 SK P 830.0 .0
- .059 .0 3180.0 SK P 825.0 .0
- .133 .0 3154.0 SK P 820.0 .0
- .206 .0 3141.0 SK P 810.0 .0
- .290 .0 3130.0 SK P 805.0 .0
- .454 .0 3116.0 SK P 800.0 .0
- .682 .0 3106.0 SK P 795.0 .0
- .935 .0 3097.0 SK P 790.0 .0
-
-
-
- OUTPUT FILES CREATED
- --------------------
-
- THE FOLLOWING OUTPUT FILES WILL BE CREATED WHEN YOU RUN THE
- DRAWDOWN.EXE MODULE:
-
- PLOT - IS A DATA FILE CREATED IF YOU SAVE ANY PLOTS TO A FILE.
- THERE IS ALSO AN OPTION TO SEND PLOTS DIRECTLY TO THE
- PRINTER. IF YOU SEND THE PLOTS DIRECTLY TO THE PRINTER
- THEN BE SURE TO RUN "PRINTER.COM" FIRST BEFORE RUNNING
- "DRAWDOWN". THE PRINTER PLOTS WILL CONTAIN MUCH HIGHER
- RESOLUTION PLOTS OF FIGURES 1 THRU 4 THAN THE SAME PLOTS
- SHOWN ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN. THE STABILIZATION FACTOR
- SHOWN IN FIGURE 1 REPRESENTS A MEASURE OF THE CONFIDENCE
- OF A PARTICULAR DATA FLOW POINT. A VALUE OF 1.0 WILL
- REPRESENT THE BEST CONFIDENCE. VALUES ABOVE 1.0 ARE
- GENERALLY DUE TO STORAGE EFFECTS. VALUES BELOW 1.0
- ARE GENERALLY DUE TO LATE TIME SUPERPOSITION EFFECTS.
- WHEN SELECTING POINTS TO USE, ALWAYS CHECK THE VALUE OF
- THE STABILIZATION FACTOR FOR THE POINTS YOU WANT TO
- SELECT. ALL SCALING FOR THE PLOTS IS DONE AUTOMATICALLY.
- ONLY THE LAST 52 DATA POINTS WILL HAVE UNIQUE SYMBOLS ON
- THE PLOTS. THE LAST DATA POINT USED IN YOUR INPUT FILE
- WILL ALWAYS BE THE PLOT SYMBOL "A". THE LAST 26 DATA
- POINTS WILL ALL BE CAPITAL LETTERS. THE 26 DATA POINTS
- BEFORE THESE WILL ALL BE LOWERCASE LETTERS. IF YOU WANT
- TO USE ANY POINTS BEFORE THE LAST 52 DATA POINTS (I.E.
- THOSE WITH PLOT SYMBOL "*") THEN YOU MUST MATCH UP THE
- VALUES ON THE PLOT WITH THE VALUES PRINTED ON "TABL",
- AND THEN REFER TO THIS DATA POINT AS A NUMBER INSTEAD OF
- A LETTER SYMBOL.
-
- TABL - IS A DATA FILE ALWAYS CREATED WHEN YOU RUN THE
- DRAWDOWN MODULE. IT CREATES THE REPORTS CALLED
- "GAS WELL VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN DATA" FOR GAS OR
- "OIL WELL VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN DATA" FOR OIL.
-
- CALC - IS A DATA FILE CREATED WHEN YOU USE THE CALCULATION
- OPTION TO ESTIMATE PERMEABILITY, SKIN FACTOR, DRAINAGE
- RADIUS, DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR, ETC. IT CREATES THE REPORTS
- "GAS WELL VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN CALCULATIONS" OR
- "OIL WELL VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN CALCULATIONS".
- THERE ARE THREE OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE DRAWDOWN
- CALCULATIONS. OPTION 1 IS FOR RELATIVELY CONSTANT FLOW
- RATES OR GRADUALLY DECLINING FLOW RATES WITH VERY
- MINOR SHUT IN PERIODS IF ANY. IF THE RATES VARY WIDELY
- OR IF THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT SHUT IN PERIODS, USE OPTION 3.
- USE OPTION 2 IF SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THESE FLOW PATTERNS.
- BE SURE THAT THE PLOTS YOU ARE USING WERE GENERATED
- WITH THE SAME FLOW OPTION (1,2,3) YOU ARE USING FOR THE
- CALCULATIONS. IF THE WELL HAS FLOWED FOR A SIGNIFICANT
- AMOUNT OF TIME PAST THE TIME TO REACH THE BOUNDARY (I.E.
- PSEUDO STEADY STATE FLOW), THEN YOU SHOULD ALWAYS USE
- OPTION 1. ALSO NOTE THAT ONLY FIGURE 4 WILL CHANGE WITH
- CHANGING OPTIONS.
-
-
-
- PRINTING OUTPUT FILES
- ---------------------
-
- YOU WILL COMMONLY WANT TO PRINT THE FOLLOWING OUTPUT DATA FILES:
-
- PLOT - FIGURES 1 THRU 4 (UNLESS YOU PRINTED DIRECTLY TO PRINTER)
- TABL - VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN DATA
- CALC - VARIABLE RATE DRAWDOWN CALCULATIONS
-
- WHEN PRINTING THESE THREE OUTPUT DATA FILES, YOUR PRINTER SHOULD BE
- SET TO PRINT WIDE (ABOUT 130 CHARACTERS PER LINE). FOR NARROW PRINTERS
- THIS MEANS YOU SHOULD BE IN COMPRESSED PRINT MODE.
-
- I COMMONLY PRINT "TABL" AND "CALC" WITH COMPRESSED MODE AND 1/8" LINE
- SPACING, I.E. 8 LINES PER INCH.
-
- I COMMONLY PRINT "PLOT" WITH COMPRESSED MODE AND 4/72" LINE SPACING,
- I.E. 18 LINES PER INCH. FOR HP LASER JETS I USE 16 LINES PER INCH.
-
- YOU CAN SET LINE SPACING WITH A SIMPLE BASIC PROGRAM IF YOU KNOW THE
- COMMANDS FOR YOUR PRINTER. I HAVE INCLUDED A SAMPLE BASIC PROGRAM
- WHICH SETS THE LINE SPACING FOR EPSON PRINTERS AND HP LASER PRINTERS.
- PANASONIC PRINTERS CAN USE THE EPSON OPTION. TO USE THIS BASIC PROGRAM
- TYPE "BASIC PRINTER". THEN ENTER "1" FOR EPSON OR "2" FOR HP LASER JET.
- THEN ENTER "1" IF YOU ARE GOING TO PRINT "TABL" OR "CALC". ENTER "2"
- IF YOU ARE GOING TO PRINT "PLOT". BE SURE THAT BASIC.EXE IS IN YOUR
- PATH. AN EXECUTABLE VERSION OF THE PRINTER SETUP PROGRAM IS ALSO
- INCLUDED. IT IS CALLED "PRINTER.COM". SOURCE CODE IS CALLED PRINTER.PAS.
-
-
- CONSIDERATIONS WHEN RUNNING THE PROGRAM
- ---------------------------------------
-
- WHAT VALUE TO USE FOR INITIAL RESERVOIR PRESSURE
- ------------------------------------------------
-
- THE VALUE YOU CHOOSE FOR INITIAL RESERVOIR PRESSURE IS VERY IMPORTANT
- FOR ACCURATE CALCULATIONS. A GOOD RULE OF THUMB IS THAT A TYPICAL
- FLUID GRADIENT IS 0.43 PSI/FT. FOR EXAMPLE, A WELL AT A DEPTH OF
- 10,000 FEET WOULD HAVE AN INITIAL RESERVOIR PRESSURE OF 4300 PSI IF
- NORMALLY PRESSURED. HOWEVER, MOST RESERVOIRS ARE EITHER UNDER PRESSURED
- OR OVER PRESSURED.
-
- STABILIZATION FACTOR
- --------------------
-
- THE STABILIZATION FACTOR IS SHOWN ON FIGURE 1. IT IS SIMPLY THE
- ACTUAL TIME DIVIDED BY THE SUPERPOSITION OF TIME FOR A GIVEN DATA
- POINT. IF A WELL IS FLOWING AT CONSTANT RATE WITHOUT ANY STORAGE
- EFFECTS, THEN THE STABILIZATION FACTOR WILL ALWAYS BE "1.0". HOWEVER,
- TYPICALLY THE STABILIZATION FACTOR WILL START OUT NEAR "1.0" AND
- GRADUALLY DECLINE WITH TIME. THE STABILIZATION FACTOR IS USEFUL TO
- HELP IN SELECTING VALID DATA POINTS FOR ANALYSIS. POINTS WHICH
- DEVIATE SIGNIFICANTLY FROM "1.0" OR WHICH DEVIATE SIGNIFICANTLY FROM
- ADJACENT POINTS SHOULD NOT BE SELECTED FOR ANALYSIS.
-
-
-
- CHOICE OF FLOW OPTIONS
- ----------------------
-
- OPTION 1 IS FOR RELATIVELY CONSTANT FLOW RATES OR GRADUALLY DECLINING
- FLOW RATES WITH VERY MINOR SHUTIN PERIODS IF ANY. THE PSEUDO STEADY
- STATE PLOT WILL USE ACTUAL TIME IN HOURS FOR RESERVE ANALYSIS. THIS
- METHOD WILL ALWAYS UNDERESTIMATE RESERVES AFTER THE BOUNDARY IS REACHED.
-
- OPTION 3 IS FOR WIDELY VARYING FLOW RATES OR FLOW RATES WITH PERIODIC
- SHUTINS BETWEEN FLOW PERIODS. THE PSEUDO STEADY STATE PLOT WILL USE
- THE SUPERPOSITION OF TIME IN FOR RESERVE ANALYSIS. THIS METHOD WILL
- ALWAYS OVERESTIMATE RESERVES AFTER THE BOUNDARY IS REACHED.
-
- OPTION 2 IS FOR A FLOW PATTERN SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN OPTION 1 AND 3.
- THE PSEUDO STEADY STATE PLOT WILL USE THE AVERAGE OF ACTUAL TIME AND
- SUPERPOSITION OF TIME FOR RESERVE ANALYSIS.
-
- ALL THREE OPTIONS USE SUPERPOSITION OF TIME FOR TRANSIENT ANALYSIS
- OF BOTH LINEAR AND RADIAL FLOW. NOTE THAT ONLY FIGURE 4 WILL CHANGE
- WHEN YOU CHANGE FLOW OPTIONS.
-
- DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR
- ------------------
-
- THE DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR IS AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED WHEN YOU SELECT
- TWO POINTS WHICH REPRESENT RADIAL TRANSIENT FLOW, AND TWO POINTS
- WHICH REPRESENT PSEUDO STEADY STATE FLOW. IF YOU LOOK AT THE
- DERIVATION OF THE DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR, YOU WILL NOTICE THAT ITS
- PRIMARY COMPONENTS ARE THE SLOPES AND INTERCEPTS FROM THE POINTS
- YOU SELECTED FROM BOTH FIGURE 3 (TRANSIENT RADIAL FLOW) AND FIGURE 4
- (PSEUDO STEADY STATE FLOW).
-
- IN OTHER WORDS, IT CAN SERVE AS A CHECK TO THE POINTS YOU SELECTED
- FROM BOTH FIGURES 3 AND 4. THE DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR SHOULD BE CLOSE
- TO 31.62 IF (1) YOU SELECTED THE CORRECT POINTS FROM BOTH FIGURES,
- AND (2) THE RATES DID NOT VARY SIGNIFICANTLY. TYPICALLY, HOWEVER,
- THE POINTS ON FIGURE 4 (ESPECIALLY WITH FLOW OPTION 1) WILL DISPLAY
- PARALLEL LINES WHEN THE RATES VARY. WHEN THIS OCCURS, DO NOT WORRY
- ABOUT OBTAINING A DIETZ SHAPE FACTOR OF 31.62. THE SLOPE OF THE
- LINE FOR FIGURE 4 WILL STILL BE CORRECT, AND THE RESERVES-IN-PLACE
- WILL STILL BE CORRECT.
-
- PREPARING FOR THE GAS SIMULATOR
- -------------------------------
-
- AFTER RUNNING THE DRAWDOWN.EXE MODULE, THEN RUN DDTOGM.EXE TO CREATE
- AN INPUT FILE FOR THE GASMODEL.EXE MODULE IF THIS IS A GAS WELL OR A
- GAS/CONDENSATE WELL.
-
- IMPROVING RESOLUTION OF PLOTS
- -----------------------------
-
- IF YOU NEED TO IMPROVE THE RESOLUTION OF THE PLOTS FOR THE EARLY TIME
- DATA, THEN CHOOSE OPTION 3 AFTER THE PLOT IS DISPLAYED TO THE SCREEN.
- IT WILL THEN ASK YOU TO SELECT A LETTER WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE LAST
- POINT YOU WANT TO PLOT.
-
-
-
- HOW TO HANDLE GAS WELLS PRODUCING WATER AND/OR CONDENSATE
- ---------------------------------------------------------
-
- IF STARTING WITH DATA FROM A BOTTOM HOLE BOMB, THEN USE THE
- DDINPUT1.EXE MODULE TO CREATE AN INPUT FILE FOR THE DRAWDOWN
- ANALYSIS.
-
- IF STARTING WITH DAILY GAUGE REPORTS, OR ANY OTHER SURFACE PRESSURE
- MEASUREMENTS, THEN USE THE DDINPUT2.EXE MODULE TO CREATE AN INPUT
- FILE FOR THE DRAWDOWN ANALYSIS. THE DDINPUT2.EXE MODULE WILL
- CALCULATE BOTTOM HOLE FLOWING PRESSURES FROM THE WELLHEAD PRESSURES
- INCLUDING ADJUSTMENTS FOR CONDENSATE AND/OR WATER PRODUCTION AND
- THEN PLACE ALL NECESSARY INFORMATION INTO AN INPUT FILE.
-
- WHEN PROMPTED "INCLUDE OIL AND WATER?" THEN ANSWER "YES". THEN THE
- PERMEABILITY AND PROVED ACRES WILL BE FOR THE COMBINED FLUID. IF YOU
- WANT THE SAME VALUES FOR THE GAS ONLY, THEN YOU CAN MULTIPLY THESE
- VALUES BY THE RATIO OF CUMULATIVE GAS TO CUMULATIVE EQUIVALENT GAS.
-
-
- HOW TO HANDLE OIL WELLS PRODUCING WATER
- ---------------------------------------
-
- OIL WELLS WHICH PRODUCE WATER SHOULD BE HANDLED IN THE FOLLOWING
- MANNER.
-
- WHEN YOU ARE PROMPTED "INCLUDE WATER?" THEN ANSWER "YES". WHEN YOU
- ARE PROMPTED FOR BO (FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR), UO (VISCOSITY), AND
- CO (COMPRESSIBILITY), ENTER WEIGHTED AVERAGE VALUES BASED ON THE
- PROPORTIONS OF OIL AND WATER FLOWING. THE PERMEABILITY AND PROVED
- ACRES CALCULATED WILL BE FOR THE COMBINED FLUID. IF YOU WANT THESE
- SAME VALUES FOR THE OIL ONLY, THEN YOU CAN MULTIPLY THESE VALUES BY
- THE RATIO OF OIL RATE TO TOTAL FLUID RATE.
-
- THE ONLY LIMITATION OF APPLYING THIS METHOD IS THAT THE GAS
- SATURATION SHOULD BE LESS THAN THE CRITICAL SATURATION FOR FREE
- GAS FLOW. THE OIL AND WATER COMPRESSIBILITIES CALCULATED BY THE
- OILPROP.EXE MODULE ASSUME THAT THIS IS THE CASE.
-
-
- HOW TO HANDLE WATER WELLS
- -------------------------
-
- WHEN YOU ARE PROMPTED "INCLUDE WATER?" THEN ANSWER "YES". WHEN YOU
- ARE PROMPTED FOR BO (FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR), UO (VISCOSITY), AND
- CO (COMPRESSIBILITY), ENTER THE FLUID PROPERTIES OF THE PRODUCED
- WATER. THE PERMEABILITY AND PROVED ACRES CALCULATED WILL NOT NEED
- TO BE CORRECTED.
-
-
-
- WELLBORE/FRACTURE STORAGE CORRECTIONS FOR GAS WELLS
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- DRAWDOWN DATA CAN BE CORRECTED FOR BOTH WELLBORE STORAGE EFFECTS AND
- FRACTURE STORAGE EFFECTS. THIS WILL ALLOW DATA WHICH IS STILL BEING
- INFLUENCED BY STORAGE EFFECTS TO BE ANALYZED. THIS IS EXTREMELY
- USEFUL FOR VERY SHORT DRAWDOWN TESTS SUCH AS AN INITIAL FOUR POINT
- TEST, OR ANY TEST TYPICALLY LESS THAN ABOUT 24 HOURS.
-
- IF YOU ANSWER "YES" TO THE STORAGE QUESTION, THEN YOU WILL NEED TO
- ENTER THREE ADDITIONAL PIECES OF INFORMATION. IN ORDER TO ESTIMATE
- THE WELLBORE STORAGE EFFECTS, THE DEPTH OF THE WELL AND THE I.D. OF
- THE FLOW STRING MUST BE ENTERED. IN ORDER TO ESTIMATE THE EFFECTS
- OF THE FORMATION FRACTURE STORAGE VOLUME, IT'S SIZE MUST BE ENTERED.
-
- IF THE GAS WELL HAS A PACKER, THEN YOU SHOULD ENTER THE I.D. OF THE
- TUBING. IF THE WELL DOES NOT HAVE A PACKER, THEN YOU SHOULD ENTER
- AN EQUIVALENT I.D. WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR BOTH TUBING AND ANNULAR VOLUME.
-
-
-
- NON-DARCY FLOW COEFFICIENT FOR GAS WELLS
- ----------------------------------------
-
- THE NON-DARCY FLOW COEFFICIENT (F) IS USED TO CORRECT THE FLOW
- EQUATIONS WHEN NON-DARCY FLOW IS PRESENT. NON-DARCY FLOW IS
- PRESENT IN HIGH RATE GAS WELLS. IT CREATES AN ADDITIONAL PRESSURE
- DROP DUE TO TURBULENCE FROM THE HIGH FLOW RATE NEAR THE WELLBORE.
- THE AMOUNT OF PRESSURE DROP IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE GAS FLOW RATE.
-
- TYPICALLY THE NON DARCY FLOW COEFFICIENT IS LESS THAN 0.05 AND
- CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN USING A VALUE GREATER THAN THIS.
-
- FOR THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ON THE NON-DARCY FLOW COEFFICIENT (F)
- REFER TO THE FOLLOWING REFERENCES:
-
- 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF RESERVOIR ENGINEERING, DAKE.
- 2. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE TESTING OF GAS WELLS, ERCB, 1975.
- 3. PREDICTION OF GAS WELL PERFORMANCE INCLUDING THE EFFECT OF
- NON-DARCY FLOW, JOURNAL OF PETR. TECH., JULY 1962, PP. 791-798,
- SWIFT AND KIEL.
- 4. USE OF OPEN FLOW POTENTIAL TEST DATA IN DETERMINING FORMATION
- CAPACITY AND SKIN FACTOR, JOURNAL OF PETR. TECH., JULY 1971,
- PP. 879-887, ESSIS AND THOMAS.
-