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100 1 _aKabir, C. S.
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100 1 _aIsmandi, D.
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100 1 _aFountain, S.
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245 0 0 _aEstimating in-place volume and reservoir connectivity with real-time and peridic surveillance data
260 _cagos. 2011
270 _a03/04/2012 ; 03/04/2012
300 _a9 p. ; 258 - 266
520 _aTranscripción del resumen del autor. This paper demonstrates the value of collecting and interpreting real-time data. With an intensive data gathering strategy, starting at wells' inception to the mature production phase, we show how transient pressure and rate data can be used to manage a complex carbonate gas reservoir. In particular, reservoir connectivity is discerned with pulse testing and with the leading-edge p/q graph, and continuous updates of in-place volume are made with both static and dynamic material-balance methods and corroborating the same with rate-transient analysis. Interwell connectivity information was deduced during underbalanced drilling by way of interference test between two pairs of wells. Thereafter, transient-pressure tests on individual wells characterized the layered, dual-porosity system, with production logs corroborating the notion of layering. Production maturity over three years has paved the way for estimating connected in-place gas volume associated with each well using the transient-PI, and also with a new method introduced here. This new approach entails plotting both static and dynamic material-balance data on the same graph, yielding the same solution. Errors associated with real-time rate measurements presented interpretation challenges for rate-transient analysis; however, application of a physics-based filtering algorithm resolved this issue. Flow-after-flow tests that were embedded in monthly variable-rate production allocations, in turn, allowed us to obtain average-reservoir pressure explicitly to do the static material-balance analysis.
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773 0 _tJournal of Petroleum Science & Engineering
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