Unconventional tight shale reservoirs have been developed during recent years due to increasing shortage of conventional resources and a large number of multi-stage fractured horizontal wells (MsFHW) have been drilled to enhance reservoir production performance. Gas flow in tight shale reservoirs is a multi-mechanism process, including: desorption, diffusion, and non-Darcy flow. The productivity of the shale gas reservoir with MsFHW is influenced by both reservoir condition and hydraulic fracture properties. In this chapter, a dual porosity model was constructed to estimate the effect of parameters on shale gas production with MsFHW. The simulation model was verified with the available field data from the Barnett Shale. Following flow mechanisms have been considered in this model: viscous flow, slip flow, Knudsen diffusion, and gas desorption. Langmuir isotherm was used to simulate the gas desorption process. Sensitivity analysis on production performance of tight shale reservoirs with MsFHW have been conducted. Parameters influencing shale gas production were classified into two categories: reservoir properties including matrix permeability, matrix porosity and hydraulic fracture properties including hydraulic fracture spacing, fracture half-length. Typical ranges of matrix parameters have been reviewed. Sensitivity analysis have been conducted to analyze the effect of above factors on the production performance of shale gas reservoirs. Through comparison, it can be found that hydraulic fracture parameters are more sensitive compared with reservoir parameters. And reservoirs parameters mainly affect the later production period. However, the hydraulic fracture parameters have significant effect on gas production from the early period. Result of this study can be used to improve the efficiency of history matching process. Also, it can contribute to the design and optimization of hydraulic fracture treatment design in unconventional tight reservoirs.

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Multi-stage Horizontal Well Hydraulic Fracturing Technic and Model for Shale Gas Production

  • Chaohua Guo,
  • Zhao Yang

摘要

Unconventional tight shale reservoirs have been developed during recent years due to increasing shortage of conventional resources and a large number of multi-stage fractured horizontal wells (MsFHW) have been drilled to enhance reservoir production performance. Gas flow in tight shale reservoirs is a multi-mechanism process, including: desorption, diffusion, and non-Darcy flow. The productivity of the shale gas reservoir with MsFHW is influenced by both reservoir condition and hydraulic fracture properties. In this chapter, a dual porosity model was constructed to estimate the effect of parameters on shale gas production with MsFHW. The simulation model was verified with the available field data from the Barnett Shale. Following flow mechanisms have been considered in this model: viscous flow, slip flow, Knudsen diffusion, and gas desorption. Langmuir isotherm was used to simulate the gas desorption process. Sensitivity analysis on production performance of tight shale reservoirs with MsFHW have been conducted. Parameters influencing shale gas production were classified into two categories: reservoir properties including matrix permeability, matrix porosity and hydraulic fracture properties including hydraulic fracture spacing, fracture half-length. Typical ranges of matrix parameters have been reviewed. Sensitivity analysis have been conducted to analyze the effect of above factors on the production performance of shale gas reservoirs. Through comparison, it can be found that hydraulic fracture parameters are more sensitive compared with reservoir parameters. And reservoirs parameters mainly affect the later production period. However, the hydraulic fracture parameters have significant effect on gas production from the early period. Result of this study can be used to improve the efficiency of history matching process. Also, it can contribute to the design and optimization of hydraulic fracture treatment design in unconventional tight reservoirs.