Journal
PROCESSES
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr10102085
Keywords
inter-salt shale oil reservoir; dual porosity model; salt dissolution; stress-sensitive; transient pressure behavior
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- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation (Southwest Petroleum University) [PLN2020-02]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51704032]
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This study investigates the unique characteristics of oil flow in inter-salt shale oil reservoirs and analyzes the transient pressure behavior of multi-stage fractured horizontal wells in this type of reservoir by establishing a transient pressure behavior model. The results of the study are significant for understanding the flow behavior in inter-salt shale oil reservoirs.
Oil flow in inter-salt shale oil reservoirs is different from that of other oil fields due to its high salt content. Dissolution and diffusion occur when the salt minerals meet the water-based working fluid, resulting in drastic changes in the shale's permeability. In addition, ignoring the stress-sensitive effect will cause significant errors in naturally fractured reservoirs for a large number of the natural fractures developed in shales. This study presents a transient pressure behavior model for a multi-stage fractured horizontal well (MFHW) in inter-salt shale oil reservoirs, considering the dissolution of salt and the stress sensitivity mentioned above. The analytical solution of our model was obtained by applying the methods of Pedrosa's linearization, the perturbation technique and Laplace transformation. The transient pressure of a multi-stage fractured horizontal well in an inter-salt shale oil reservoir was obtained in real space by using the method of Stehfest's numerical inversion. The bi-logarithmic-type curves thus obtained reflected the characteristics of the transient pressure behavior of a MFHW for the inter-salt shale oil reservoirs, and eight flow periods were recognized in the type curves. The effects of salt dissolution, stress sensitivity, the storativity ratio and other parameters on the type curves were analyzed thoroughly, which is of great significance for understanding the transient flow behavior of inter-salt shale oil reservoirs.
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