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Predicting the Performance of Undeveloped Multi-Fractured Marcellus Gas Wells Using an Analytical Flow-Cell Model (FCM)

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  • David Waters

    (Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA)

  • Ruud Weijermars

    (Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
    Department of Petroleum Engineering & Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR), College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (CPG), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KFUPM, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia)

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to predict how changes in the fracture treatment design parameters will affect the production performance of new gas wells in a target zone of the Marcellus shale. A recently developed analytical flow-cell model can estimate future production for new wells with different completion designs. The flow-cell model predictions were benchmarked using historic data of 11 wells and 6 different completion designs. First, a type well was generated and used with the flow-cell model to predict the performance of the later infill wells—with variable completion designs—based off the performance of earlier wells. The flow-cell model takes into account known hyperbolic forecast parameters ( q i , D i , and b -factor) and fracture parameters (height, half-length, and spacing) of a type well. Next, the flow-cell model generates the hyperbolic decline parameters for an offset well based on the selected changes in the fracture treatment design parameters. Using a numerical simulator, the flow-cell model was verified as an accurate modeling technique for forecasting the production performance of horizontal, multi-fractured, gas wells.

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  • David Waters & Ruud Weijermars, 2021. "Predicting the Performance of Undeveloped Multi-Fractured Marcellus Gas Wells Using an Analytical Flow-Cell Model (FCM)," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-42, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:6:p:1734-:d:521170
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    1. Ruud Weijermars & Kiran Nandlal, 2020. "Pre-Drilling Production Forecasting of Parent and Child Wells Using a 2-Segment Decline Curve Analysis (DCA) Method Based on an Analytical Flow-Cell Model Scaled by a Single Type Well," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-27, March.
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    1. Ruud Weijermars, 2022. "Gaussian Decline Curve Analysis of Hydraulically Fractured Wells in Shale Plays: Examples from HFTS-1 (Hydraulic Fracture Test Site-1, Midland Basin, West Texas)," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-23, September.
    2. Ruud Weijermars, 2020. "Optimization of Fracture Spacing and Well Spacing in Utica Shale Play Using Fast Analytical Flow-Cell Model (FCM) Calibrated with Numerical Reservoir Simulator," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-24, December.

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