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Productivity of Horizontal Wells
Productivity of Horizontal Wells
Productivity of Horizontal Wells
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Introduction
Horizontal oil and gas well drilling has become one of
the most valuable technologies ever introduced in the
business It is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) or gas
recovery method that is becoming more and more
popular as the price per barrel of oil Gets higher and
generally increase productivity to at least 2-3 times that of
vertical wells which our seminar will talk about and often
enables successful reservoir development. The oil or
natural gas in some types of reservoirs can be most
thoroughly recovered by horizontal drilling.
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Purpose
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Candidated reservoirs
1) Thin reservoirs
A vertical well drilled into a thin reservoir will have a very
small contact surface (effectively limited by reservoir
thickness) with the oil-producing horizon.
A horizontal well in the same reservoir layer can have a
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►Borehole inclination.
►The longer contact length between borehole and
reservoir.
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Assumptions:
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Method I
Joshi proposed that the drainage area is represented by
two half circles of radius b (equivalent to a radius of a
vertical well rev) at each end and a rectangle, of
dimensions L(2b), in the center. The drainage area of the
horizontal well is given then by:
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Method II
Joshi assumed that the horizontal well drainage area is an
ellipse and given by:
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Joshi noted that the two methods give different values for
the drainage area A and suggested assigning the average
value for the drainage of the horizontal well. Most of the
production rate equations require the value of the
drainage radius of the horizontal well, which is given by:
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Example
A 480-acre lease is to be developed by using 12 vertical
wells. Assuming that each vertical well would effectively
drain 40 acres, calculate the possible number of either
1,000 or 2,000 ft long horizontal wells that will drain the
lease effectively?
Solution steps
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Method I
► For the 1,000-ft horizontal well :
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Method II
►For the 1,000-ft horizontal well :
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Mathematical Solutions
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Borisov’s Method
Borisov (1984) proposed the following expression for
predicting the productivity index of a horizontal well in an
isotropic reservoir, i.e., kv = kh
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1) Borisov method
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2) Giger method
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3) Joshi method
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Effecting factors
Influence of reservoir height and horizontal well length:
►The influence of reservoir height on horizontal well
productivity is quite significant. The incremental gain
in reservoir contact area (L/h) in a thin reservoir is
much more than that in a thick reservoir.
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References:
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► www.horizontaldrilling.org
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