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    A Simple Physics-Based Model Predicts Oil Production from Thousands of Horizontal Wells in Shales

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    Conference Paper
    Authors
    Patzek, Tadeusz cc
    Saputra, Wardana
    Kirati, Wissem
    KAUST Department
    Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (ANPERC)
    Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
    Earth Science and Engineering Program
    Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
    Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
    Date
    2017-10-09
    Online Publication Date
    2017-10-09
    Print Publication Date
    2017
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626050
    
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    Abstract
    Over the last six years, crude oil production from shales and ultra-deep GOM in the United States has accounted for most of the net increase of global oil production. Therefore, it is important to have a good predictive model of oil production and ultimate recovery in shale wells. Here we introduce a simple model of producing oil and solution gas from the horizontal hydrofractured wells. This model is consistent with the basic physics and geometry of the extraction process. We then apply our model thousands of wells in the Eagle Ford shale. Given well geometry, we obtain a one-dimensional nonlinear pressure diffusion equation that governs flow of mostly oil and solution gas. In principle, solutions of this equation depend on many parameters, but in practice and within a given oil shale, all but three can be fixed at typical values, leading to a nonlinear diffusion problem we linearize and solve exactly with a scaling
    Citation
    Patzek TW, Saputra W, Kirati W (2017) A Simple Physics-Based Model Predicts Oil Production from Thousands of Horizontal Wells in Shales. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/187226-MS.
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    This work was supported by the baseline and center funding at the Ali I. Al-Naimi Center for Petroleum Engineering Research (ANPERC) at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We would like to thank Dr. Arthur Berman of Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc. in Houston, Texas, for pointing out the multitudinous problems with allocation of oil well production in Texas, and working through a difficult example in DrillingInfo with Wardana and Wissem. Art visited us in November 2016.
    Publisher
    Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
    Journal
    SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
    DOI
    10.2118/187226-MS
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    https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/SPE-187226-MS
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    Conference Papers; Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (ANPERC); Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division; Earth Science and Engineering Program; Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division

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