NDLI: Analytical Modeling of Flow Behavior for Wormholes in Naturally Fractured

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Author	Wang, Lei Wang, Xiaodong Luo, Erhui Wang, Junlei
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Acidizing technology has been widely applied when developing naturally fractured–vuggy reservoirs. So testing and evaluating acidizing wells’ pressure behavior become necessary for further improving the wells’ performance. Analyzing transient pressure data can estimate some key reservoir parameters. Generally speaking, carbonate minerals are usually composed of dolomite and calcite which are easy to be dissolved by hydrochloric acid which is often used to react with the rock to create a high conductivity channel, namely wormhole. Pressure transient behavior in fractured–vuggy reservoirs has been studied for many years; however, the models of acidizing wells with wormholes were not reported in previous studies. This article presented an analytical model for wormholes in naturally fractured–vuggy carbonate reservoirs, and wormholes solutions were obtained through point sink integral method. The results were validated accurately by comparing with previous results and numerical simulation. Then in this paper, type curves were established to recognize the flow characteristics, and flow was divided into six flow regimes comprehensively. The calculative results showed that the characteristics of type curves were influenced by inter-porosity flow factor, wormhole number, fluids capacitance coefficient. We also showed that the pressure behavior was affected by the angles between wormholes, and the pressure depletion increased as the angle decreased, because the wormholes were closer, their interaction became stronger. At the end, a reservoir example was showed to demonstrate the methodology of new type curve analysis.
Starting Page	539
Ending Page	558
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01693913
Journal	Transport in Porous Media
Volume Number	105
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15731634
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-09-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Carbonate minerals Wormholes Analytical solutions Wormhole number Asymmetric wormholes Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Hydrology/Water Resources Civil Engineering Hydrogeology Classical Continuum Physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Catalysis

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