RESEARCH ARTICLE
Production Analysis of Tight Sandstone Reservoir in Consideration of Stress-Sensitive Permeability
Yinghao Shen1, *, Xinyu Yang2, Yuelei Zhang3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 10
First Page: 82
Last Page: 93
Publisher Id: TOPEJ-10-82
DOI: 10.2174/1874834101710010082
Article History:
Received Date: 22/08/2016Revision Received Date: 07/02/2017
Acceptance Date: 10/03/2017
Electronic publication date: 28/04/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Tight sandstone reservoirs play an important role in the oil industry. The permeability of tight sandstone reservoir generally has stronger stress sensitivity than that of conventional reservoir because of the latter’s poor physical properties. However, the production analysis of tight sandstone reservoir did not fully considered the stress-sensitive permeability yet.
Objective:
This paper proposed a production analysis method considering the stress- sensitive permeability.
Method:
This paper firtstly investigated the stress sensitivity characteristics and the effect of stress-sensitive permeability on a tight reservoir. Decline-type curves that consider stress-sensitive permeability are then established, and a systematic analysis method was built for the production analysis to obtain the single-well controlled dynamic reserves and reservoir physical properties.
Results:
A field analysis was performed in combination with Block Yuan-284 of Changqing Oilfield. Results show that with the reduction of reservoir pressure, stress sensitivity leads to the decline in reservoir permeability and the increase in seepage resistance, thus reducing the actual single-well controlled reserve and radius.
Conclusion:
By utilizing the analysis method based on the decline curves, we can effectively predict the single-well controlled dynamic reserves of such reservoirs and evaluate the characteristic parameters of reservoirs.
