Automatic type curve matching for predicting gas wells production

The determination of gas wells production using type curve matching is one of the methods used in evaluating gas reservoirs. Matching curves manually is time consuming and exposed to human error. Aminian type curves unlike the other type curves accounts the pressure dependency of gas properties and the effect of non-darcy factor. The sensitivity of Aminian type curves to non-darcy factor makes them hard to match with naked eyes.;Sfrac is a computer program generates type curves using conventional calculations for wells where all the reservoir properties are available. Using the idea of Sfrac, a program was developed to generate type curves with non-darcy factor and initial gas in-place in addition to the gas properties. This computer program which is known as MatchCurve automatically matches the production history to generated type curves. Based on the automatic match production of gas wells is predicted.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Year dc:date.available

1999

Author dc:creator

• Tesfaslasie, Samson

Contributors dc:contributor

• Khashayar Aminian.

• Petroleum engineering

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/979

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1982