Methods for Optimizing Bunch Distance of Fractured Horizontal Wells of Shale Gas

    公开(公告)号:US20200225384A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16837078

    申请日:2020-04-01

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for optimizing bunch distance of fractured horizontal wells of shale gas, which relates to the technical field of oil exploration. The method comprises first establishing a stress field distribution model for a single fracture; then establishing an induced stress distribution model of segmented single-bunch fracturing for a horizontal well; later establishing an induced stress distribution model of segmented multi-bunch fracturing for a horizontal well; last optimizing fracturing parameters and fracture distance according to the distribution pattern of the induced stress difference.The method considers the stress barrier, stress interference effects, and the variation of the effective net pressure during the synchronous expansion of fractures, so the calculation model is more in line with the actual working conditions, has higher precision, and can provide more accurate theoretical guidance for the optimization design of segmented multi-bunch fracturing of a horizontal well.

    Method and device for developing shale gas by tapered gradient pressure drop with multi-stage fractured horizontal well

    公开(公告)号:US20210238973A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US17149015

    申请日:2021-01-14

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for developing shale gas by tapered gradient pressure drop with multi-stage fractured horizontal well; the method comprises: acquiring fracturing crack form parameters of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well and reservoir characteristic parameters of nearby formation; dividing the formation near the shale gas multi-stage fractured horizontal well into strongly transformed area, weakly transformed area and matrix area; establishing pressure difference-flow models of gas-phase and water phase of the three areas respectively, and coupling the models of the three areas to establish production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; according to the production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well, performing numerical simulation with different combinations of production pressure differences in the three stages of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; and selecting a combination of production pressure differences with the greatest economic benefit as combination of production pressure differences.

    Method and device for identifying structure of flow field in unconventional gas reservoir

    公开(公告)号:US20210003004A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US17027951

    申请日:2020-09-22

    Abstract: A method for identifying structure of flow field in unconventional gas reservoir is provided. The unconventional gas reservoir comprises at least one horizontal well, for any horizontal well in the at least one horizontal well, the method comprises: during fracturing fluid flowback stage, obtaining first production data, and drawing an actual production curve diagram of the fracturing fluid flowback stage; obtaining reservoir physical parameters corresponding to different fracture network forms and second production data, and performing numerical simulations on water production rate, gas production rate and casing pressure of the fracturing fluid flowback stage, and drawing layouts of structure of flow field corresponding to different fracture network forms of the fracturing fluid flowback stage; and comparing the actual production curve diagram with the layouts of structure of flow field corresponding to different fracture network forms to identify structure of flow field of the reservoir after fracturing.

    Methods of Optimizing Well Spacing for Shale Gas Development

    公开(公告)号:US20200224522A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16833806

    申请日:2020-03-30

    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method of optimizing well spacing for shale gas development. It belongs to the technical field of hydrocarbon reservoir exploration and development. The method comprises: firstly verifying block area based on the explored geological structure; analyzing the connection situation of a shale reservoir, identifying the minimum developing area units; calculating the recoverable reserves of the units, confirming the candidate units; drilling representative shale cores and analyzing related physical properties; calculating seepage field and pressure field using unified multi-field, multi-flow-regime, and multi-scale mathematical models; calculating the effective recoverable area of each well; and arranging wells based on the rule that the interference among wells is not larger than 10%. Considering the fluid-solid coupling effects, this method can define appropriately well spacing for shale gas exploration and enhance effectively the output of shale gas.

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