Modeling hydraulic fractures in finite difference simulators: Application to tight gas sands in Montana

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 107-116

  Hoffman, B Todd ^a   Chang, Wui Min ^a  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

discrete connection of nodes; hydraulic fracture; low permeability gas reservoir; simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; COMMERCIAL SIMULATORS; DISCRETE CONNECTION OF NODES; DISCRETE OBJECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FRACTURE DESIGN; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE LENGTH; FRACTURED SYSTEMS; FUTURE RESPONSE; GAS FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; LOW PERMEABILITY; LOW PERMEABILITY GAS RESERVOIR; LOW PERMEABILITY GAS RESERVOIRS; MONTANA; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; PRESSURE COMMUNICATION; PRODUCTION DATA; REALISTIC MODEL; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SINGLE PHASE; SINGLE WELL; TIGHT GAS SANDS; WELL MODEL;

CAPILLARITY; CEMENTS; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SIMULATORS; WELLS;

FRACTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GAS PRODUCTION; GAS WELL; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL SAND; PERMEABILITY; PREDICTION; RESERVOIR ROCK;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349426984     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Cinco-Ley H., and Samaniego V.F. Transient pressure analysis for fractured wells. J. Pet. Technol. 33 9 (1981) 1747-1766
2. Crafton J.W., and Harris CD. Direct finite difference simulation of a gas well with a finite capacity vertical fracture. Numerical Simulation of Reservoir Performance (1976), Society of Petroleum Engineers, Los Angeles, California Paper SPE No. 5736
3. Dullien F.A.L. Porous Media: Fluid Transport and Pore Structure (1979), Academic Press, London 169-172
4. Elbel J.L., and Sookprasong P.A. The use of cumulative production type curves in fracture design. Soc. Pet. Eng. Prod. Eng. 2 3 (1987) 191-198
5. Gidley, John L., Holditch, Stephen A., Nierode, Dale E., Veatch, J R., and Ralph, W. 1989. Recent Advances in Hydraulic Fracturing. Society of Petroleum Engineers, Dallas, Texas, pp. 1-2, 14, 400-401.
6. Karimi-Fard M., Durlofsky L.J., and Aziz K. An efficient discrete-fracture model applicable for general-purpose reservoir simulators. Soc. Pet. Eng. J. 9 2 (2004) 227-236
7. Lee S.H., Lough M.F., and Jensen C.L. Hierarchical modeling of flow in naturally fractured formations with multiple length scales. Water Resour. Res. 37 3 (2001) 443-455
8. McGuire W.J., and Sikora V.J. The effect of vertical fractures on well productivity. J. Pet. Technol. 10 12 (1960) 72-74
9. Nydegger, G.L., Rice, D.D., Brown, C.A., 1980. Analysis of Shallow Gas Development from Low Permeability Reservoirs of Late Cretaceous Age, Bowdoin Dome Area. J. Pet. Technol. 32 (12), 2111-2120.
10. Pinnacle Technologies. FracproPT: User Guide (2004) Pinnacle Technologies, San Francisco, California, 463 pp.
11. Prats M., Hazebroek P., and Strickler W.R. Effect of vertical fractures on reser0voir behavior - compressible-fluid case. Soc. Pet. Eng. J. 2 2 (1962) 87-94
12. Romero D.J., Valko P.P., and Economides M.J. Optimization of the productivity index and the fracture geometry of a stimulated well with fracture face and choke skin. Soc. Pet. Eng. Prod. Facil. 18 1 (2003) 57-64
13. Schlumberger. Simulation Software Manuals: Eclipse Technical Description (2004) 941-963
14. Soliman M.Y. Modifications to production increase calculations for a hydraulically fractured well. J. Pet. Technol. 35 1 (1983) 170-172
15. Tinsley J.M., Williams Jr. J.R., Tiner R.L., and Malone W.T. Vertical fracture height - its effect on steady-state production increase. J. Pet. Technol. 21 5 (1969) 633-638
16. Voelker, J., 2004. A Reservoir Characterization of Arab-D Super-K as a Discrete Fracture Network Flow System; Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, California.
17. Voelker J., Liu J., and Caers J. A geostatistical method for characterizing superpermeability from flow-meter data: application to Ghawar Field. Annual Technical Conference and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, Paper SPE No. 84279 (2003)