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

    公开(公告)号:US11136871B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-05

    申请号:US17149015

    申请日:2021-01-14

    Abstract: A method for developing shale gas by tapered gradient pressure drop with multi-stage fractured horizontal well is provided and 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.

    Methods of optimizing well spacing for shale gas development

    公开(公告)号:US10822938B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US16833806

    申请日:2020-03-30

    Abstract: A method of optimizing well spacing for shale gas development is provided. 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, the method can define appropriately well spacing for shale gas exploration and enhance effectively the output of shale gas.

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