In recent oil and gas exploration, the most reservoirs are low permeability with abundant reserves. Conventional mining of low permeability reservoir is commonly utilizing the hydraulic fracturing technology, whereas,...In recent oil and gas exploration, the most reservoirs are low permeability with abundant reserves. Conventional mining of low permeability reservoir is commonly utilizing the hydraulic fracturing technology, whereas, it encounters various technical issues, such as clay expansion and water lock damage. Using the fluid of supercritical carbon dioxide(S-CO_2) to exploit the low permeability oil and gas reservoirs is attracting more attention. The implementation of S-CO_2, without liquid phase, can help avoid the aforementioned problems. Nevertheless, the phase change of CO_2 during fracturing is complicate, and it is difficult to accurately predict the CO_2 phase transition. In this work, first, the physical properties of S-CO_2 were analyzed by the Span-Wagner model and Vesovic model. Next, S-CO_2 was applied to a typical oilfield, and an unsteady coupling model of heat transfer and pressure drop was developed. Then the staggered grid method and iteration procedures were used for numerical solutions, and the temperature and pressure distributions of wellbores were investigated. The results indicate that the temperature control of a wellbore is the key to the phase prediction of S-CO_2; CO_2 within the single-diameter pipeline below 2300 m can maintain the supercritical state, while CO_2 within the stepped pipeline can maintain the supercritical state at the depth of 2280 m. Moreover, compared with the single-diameter pipeline, the bottom pressure of the stepped pipeline is lower and the bottom temperature is higher. By analyzing the flow and heat transfer of S-CO_2 in the wellbores, the phase state of S-CO_2 was well predicted, which is helpful to improve the exploring performance of low permeability oil and gas reservoirs.展开更多
Direct calculations of unsteady-state Weymouth equations for gas volumetric flow rate occur more frequently in the design and operation analysis of natural gas systems. Most of the existing gas pipelines design proced...Direct calculations of unsteady-state Weymouth equations for gas volumetric flow rate occur more frequently in the design and operation analysis of natural gas systems. Most of the existing gas pipelines design procedures are based on a particular friction factor and steady-state flow analysis. This paper examined the behavior of different friction factors and the need to develop model analysis capable of calculating unsteady-state gas flow rate in horizontal and inclined pipes. The results show different variation in flow rate with Panhandle A and Panhandle B attaining stability in accurate time with initial unsteadiness at the instance of flow. Chen and Jain friction factors have opposition to flow with high flow rate: The prediction also reveals that Colebrook-White degenerated to Nikuradse friction factor at high Reynolds number. The horizontal and inclined flow equations are considerably enhanced on the usage of different friction factors with the aid of Matlab to handle these calculations.展开更多
Deep petroleum resources are in a high-temperature environment.However,the traditional deep rock coring method has no temperature preserved measures and ignores the effect of temperature on rock porosity and permeabil...Deep petroleum resources are in a high-temperature environment.However,the traditional deep rock coring method has no temperature preserved measures and ignores the effect of temperature on rock porosity and permeability,which will lead to the distortion of the petroleum resources reserves assessment.Therefore,the hollow glass microspheres/epoxy resin(HGM/EP)composites were innovatively proposed as temperature preserved materials for in-situ temperature-preserved coring(ITP-Coring),and the physical,mechanical,and temperature preserved properties were evaluated.The results indicated that:As the HGM content increased,the density and mechanical properties of the composites gradually decreased,while the water absorption was deficient without hydrostatic pressure.For composites with 50 vol%HGM,when the hydrostatic pressure reached 60 MPa,the water absorption was above 30.19%,and the physical and mechanical properties of composites were weakened.When the hydrostatic pressure was lower than 40 MPa,the mechanical properties and thermal conductivity of composites were almost unchanged.Therefore,the composites with 50 vol%HGM can be used for ITPCoring operations in deep environments with the highest hydrostatic pressure of 40 MPa.Finally,to further understand the temperature preserved performance of composites in practical applications,the temperature preserved properties were measured.An unsteady-state heat transfer model was established based on the test results,then the theoretical change of the core temperature during the coring process was obtained.The above tests results can provide a research basis for deep rock in-situ temperature preserved corer and support accurate assessment of deep petroleum reserves.展开更多
The Monte Carlo method is used to simulate unsteady-state particle transport calculations. Due to the computational time existing obviously difference among the different steps and I/O percentage is rated high, it res...The Monte Carlo method is used to simulate unsteady-state particle transport calculations. Due to the computational time existing obviously difference among the different steps and I/O percentage is rated high, it results in the parallel com-putation efficiency down if the fix processors are used in each step. So parallel I/O and the adaptive parallel algorithms are developed. The good results and high speedup are obtained.展开更多
Multi-fractured horizontal wells are commonly employed to improve the productivity of low and ultra-low permeability gas reservoirs.However,conventional productivity models for open-hole multi-fractured horizontal wel...Multi-fractured horizontal wells are commonly employed to improve the productivity of low and ultra-low permeability gas reservoirs.However,conventional productivity models for open-hole multi-fractured horizontal wells do not consider the interferences between hydraulic fractures and the open-hole segments,resulting in significant errors in calculation results.In this article,a novel productivity prediction model for gas reservoirs with open-hole multi-fractured horizontal wells was proposed based on complex potential theories,potential superimposition,and numerical analysis.Herein,an open-hole segment between two adjacent fractures was regarded as an equivalent fracture,which was discretized as in cases of artificial fractures.The proposed model was then applied to investigate the effects of various parameters,such as the angle between the fracture and horizontal shaft,fracture quantity,fracture length,diversion capacity of fractures,horizontal well length,and inter-fracture distance,on the productivity of low permeability gas reservoirs with multi-fractured horizontal wells.Simulation results revealed that the quantity,length,and distribution of fractures had significant effects on the productivity of low permeability gas reservoirs while the effects of the diversion capacity of fractures and the angle between the fracture and horizontal shaft were negligible.Additionally,a U-shaped distribution of fracture lengths was preferential as the quantity of fractures at shaft ends was twice that in the middle area.展开更多
基金financial support from the Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51676208)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2017M622308)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (18CX07012A, 19CX05002A).
文摘In recent oil and gas exploration, the most reservoirs are low permeability with abundant reserves. Conventional mining of low permeability reservoir is commonly utilizing the hydraulic fracturing technology, whereas, it encounters various technical issues, such as clay expansion and water lock damage. Using the fluid of supercritical carbon dioxide(S-CO_2) to exploit the low permeability oil and gas reservoirs is attracting more attention. The implementation of S-CO_2, without liquid phase, can help avoid the aforementioned problems. Nevertheless, the phase change of CO_2 during fracturing is complicate, and it is difficult to accurately predict the CO_2 phase transition. In this work, first, the physical properties of S-CO_2 were analyzed by the Span-Wagner model and Vesovic model. Next, S-CO_2 was applied to a typical oilfield, and an unsteady coupling model of heat transfer and pressure drop was developed. Then the staggered grid method and iteration procedures were used for numerical solutions, and the temperature and pressure distributions of wellbores were investigated. The results indicate that the temperature control of a wellbore is the key to the phase prediction of S-CO_2; CO_2 within the single-diameter pipeline below 2300 m can maintain the supercritical state, while CO_2 within the stepped pipeline can maintain the supercritical state at the depth of 2280 m. Moreover, compared with the single-diameter pipeline, the bottom pressure of the stepped pipeline is lower and the bottom temperature is higher. By analyzing the flow and heat transfer of S-CO_2 in the wellbores, the phase state of S-CO_2 was well predicted, which is helpful to improve the exploring performance of low permeability oil and gas reservoirs.
文摘Direct calculations of unsteady-state Weymouth equations for gas volumetric flow rate occur more frequently in the design and operation analysis of natural gas systems. Most of the existing gas pipelines design procedures are based on a particular friction factor and steady-state flow analysis. This paper examined the behavior of different friction factors and the need to develop model analysis capable of calculating unsteady-state gas flow rate in horizontal and inclined pipes. The results show different variation in flow rate with Panhandle A and Panhandle B attaining stability in accurate time with initial unsteadiness at the instance of flow. Chen and Jain friction factors have opposition to flow with high flow rate: The prediction also reveals that Colebrook-White degenerated to Nikuradse friction factor at high Reynolds number. The horizontal and inclined flow equations are considerably enhanced on the usage of different friction factors with the aid of Matlab to handle these calculations.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 51827901)funded by the Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Enterpreneurial Teams(No.2019ZT08G315)Shenzhen Basic Research Program(General Program)(No.JCYJ20190808153416970)
文摘Deep petroleum resources are in a high-temperature environment.However,the traditional deep rock coring method has no temperature preserved measures and ignores the effect of temperature on rock porosity and permeability,which will lead to the distortion of the petroleum resources reserves assessment.Therefore,the hollow glass microspheres/epoxy resin(HGM/EP)composites were innovatively proposed as temperature preserved materials for in-situ temperature-preserved coring(ITP-Coring),and the physical,mechanical,and temperature preserved properties were evaluated.The results indicated that:As the HGM content increased,the density and mechanical properties of the composites gradually decreased,while the water absorption was deficient without hydrostatic pressure.For composites with 50 vol%HGM,when the hydrostatic pressure reached 60 MPa,the water absorption was above 30.19%,and the physical and mechanical properties of composites were weakened.When the hydrostatic pressure was lower than 40 MPa,the mechanical properties and thermal conductivity of composites were almost unchanged.Therefore,the composites with 50 vol%HGM can be used for ITPCoring operations in deep environments with the highest hydrostatic pressure of 40 MPa.Finally,to further understand the temperature preserved performance of composites in practical applications,the temperature preserved properties were measured.An unsteady-state heat transfer model was established based on the test results,then the theoretical change of the core temperature during the coring process was obtained.The above tests results can provide a research basis for deep rock in-situ temperature preserved corer and support accurate assessment of deep petroleum reserves.
文摘The Monte Carlo method is used to simulate unsteady-state particle transport calculations. Due to the computational time existing obviously difference among the different steps and I/O percentage is rated high, it results in the parallel com-putation efficiency down if the fix processors are used in each step. So parallel I/O and the adaptive parallel algorithms are developed. The good results and high speedup are obtained.
基金This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51574197)Educational Commission of Sichuan Province of China(16ZA0071).
文摘Multi-fractured horizontal wells are commonly employed to improve the productivity of low and ultra-low permeability gas reservoirs.However,conventional productivity models for open-hole multi-fractured horizontal wells do not consider the interferences between hydraulic fractures and the open-hole segments,resulting in significant errors in calculation results.In this article,a novel productivity prediction model for gas reservoirs with open-hole multi-fractured horizontal wells was proposed based on complex potential theories,potential superimposition,and numerical analysis.Herein,an open-hole segment between two adjacent fractures was regarded as an equivalent fracture,which was discretized as in cases of artificial fractures.The proposed model was then applied to investigate the effects of various parameters,such as the angle between the fracture and horizontal shaft,fracture quantity,fracture length,diversion capacity of fractures,horizontal well length,and inter-fracture distance,on the productivity of low permeability gas reservoirs with multi-fractured horizontal wells.Simulation results revealed that the quantity,length,and distribution of fractures had significant effects on the productivity of low permeability gas reservoirs while the effects of the diversion capacity of fractures and the angle between the fracture and horizontal shaft were negligible.Additionally,a U-shaped distribution of fracture lengths was preferential as the quantity of fractures at shaft ends was twice that in the middle area.
