Tese: Pressure and Temperature transiente response in a coupled stratified wellbore-reservoir model
Aluno(a) : José Adriano Bento de Souza CardosoOrientador(a): Márcio Carvalho e Danmer Paulino Maza Quinones
Área de Concentração: Termociências
Data: 27/07/2020
Link para tese/dissertação: http://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.50351
Resumo: Well formation tests are usually performed to determine the geological properties of a reservoir and the obtained data has often been interpreted based on an assumption that the reservoir is homogeneous in the vertical direction and described by a 1-D model. However, many reservoirs are found to be composed of different number of layers that have different characteristics. Production wells in such reservoirs may receive oil from more than one layer. In stratified reservoir system, the pressure and temperature behavior are not necessarily the same as in single layered system, and rarely reveals the same average properties of the entire system. The prediction of the characteristics of the individual layers is important to describe properly the reservoir and improve production management. This work presents a numerical transient-thermal model for a coupled wellbore/2D-reservoir considering Joule-Thompson heating/cooling, adiabatic fluid expansion, conduction and convection effects for both wellbore and reservoir for one phase fluid flow. The two-dimensional reservoir model allows the analysis of stratified zones and barriers. The model allows cross flow between the adjacent layers with different rock properties. Wellbore temperature and pressure at a certain gauge depth are evaluated numerically. Results show how pressure transient analysis (PTA) and temperature transient analysis (TTA) can be used to characterize different configuration of stratified reservoirs.