Calculation Model of Drainage Radius of Single-Layer/Multi-Layer Commingled Gas Production Wells in a Closed Constant-Volume Gas Reservoir and Its Application

Abstract

Gas drainage radius is the most important parameter for determining reasonable well spacing. However, the drainage radius of both single-layer and multi-layer commingled gas production wells cannot be directly obtained through reservoir well tests. In order to address the above challenge, for single-layer gas production wells in a closed constant-volume gas reservoir, a calculation model for drainage radius is derived using the modified flowing material balance method. The results indicate that the calculated error of this model is only 0.73% and much smaller than that of the flowing material balance method (5.78%), implying its high accuracy. For multi-layer commingled gas production wells, another calculation model of drainage radius is established by coupling the pseudo-steady-state production capacity equation with the material balance principle. The research results demonstrate that the novel calculation model has a maximum relative error of only 2.33% and requires only two production profile tests to rapidly calculate the drainage radius of each layer within the gas reservoir, suggesting its satisfactory simplicity, significant efficiency and high precision. The proposed calculation models of drainage radius achieve a convenient and rapid calculation for both single-layer and multi-layer commingled gas production wells, and fill the theoretical gap in efficient calculation of drainage radius for a closed constant-volume gas reservoir.

Keywords

• drainage radius
• mathematical model
• flowing material balance method
• pseudo-steady flow