Student: Victor Pugliese

R#: 11492336
Course: Advance Reservoir Engineering (PETR 5320)
Homework #4

Assume a homogeneous and isotropic reservoir, uncompressible fluid and steady state
flow. Assume also two production wells and an injection well as described in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Application

m3 r w =0.1 m
q=1,000 h=2 0 m
d
d=2, 000 m k =100 md
μ=1cp Φ av =200 Bars

Questions:

1. Calculate the velocities at any points.

The potential at any point, assuming that the well center is not at the origin:

qμ qμ
Φ ( x , y ) =Φ́+ ln ( r w r e )− ln ( x−x 0 )2 + ( y − y 0 )2 ]
4 π kh 4 πkh [

For multiple wells:

 n n n
qi μ qμ 2 2
Φ ( x , y ) =∑ Φ́i + ∑ ln ( r w r e )i−∑ i ln [ ( x−x i ) + ( y− yi ) ]
i i 4 πkh i 4 πkh

Taking the mass balance,

n

∑ qi=0
i
n
qi μ 2 2
Φ ( x , y ) =Φ́total−∑ ln [ ( x −xi ) + ( y− y i ) ]
i 4 πkh

The fluid velocity at any point due to a single well:

−k ∂ Φ ∂ Φ
V=
⃗
(
μ ∂x ∂y
, )
∂Φ −q ( x−x 0 )
=
∂ x 2 πh ( x−x 0 )2 + ( y− y 0 )2

∂Φ −q ( y− y 0 )
=
∂ y 2 πh ( x−x 0 )2 + ( y− y 0 )2

Then,
q ( x−x 0 ) ( y− y 0 )
V i=
⃗
( ,
2 πh ( x−x 0 ) + ( y− y 0 ) ( x−x 0 )2 + ( y − y 0 )2
2 2
)
Using the superposition principle, the velocity due to the effect of the three wells is:
n
V =∑ ⃗
⃗ Vi
i

n
1 ( x−x i ) ( y− y i )
V=
⃗ ∑
2 πh i
qi 2
( 2
, 2
( x− xi ) + ( y − y i ) ( x −xi ) + ( y− y i )
2
)
n
1 q i ( x −xi ) qi ( y − yi )
V=
⃗ ∑ ( ,
2 πh i ( x−x i )2 + ( y − y i )2 ( x−x i )2 + ( y − y i )2 )
q1 ( x−x1 ) q1 ( y − y1 ) q 2 ( x−x 2 ) q2 ( y− y 2 ) q
V=
⃗ 1
2 πh [( 2 2
, 2
( x−x 1 ) + ( y − y 1 ) ( x−x 1 ) + ( y − y 1 )
2
) ( W1
+ 2 2
, 2
( x−x 2 ) + ( y− y 2 ) ( x−x 2 ) + ( y− y 2 )
2
) (
W2
+
( x−x

2
 V=
⃗ 1
2 πh ([ x2+qxy , x2+qyy )−( ( xq+( dx)+d+ )y , ( x+ dqy) + y )−( ( x−d
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
q ( x−d )
2
) + y ( x −d ) + y )]
2
,
qy
2 2

q 2x x +d x−d 2y y y
V=
⃗
( − − , 2 2− −
2 πh x + y ( x+ d ) + y ( x−d ) + y x + y ( x+ d ) + y ( x−d )2+ y 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 )
2. Calculate the velocity along the X axis.
y=0

q 2x x+ d x−d
V x=
(
2
− 2
−
2 πh x ( x +d ) ( x−d )2 )
q 2 1 1
V x= (
− −
2 πh x x+ d x−d )
q 1 x
V x=
( − 2 2
πh x x −d )
The real velocity is:
q 1 x q −d2
V x= −
( =
)
πh ϕ x x 2−d 2 πh ϕ x 3 −d 2 x ( )
3. Plot the velocity for x varying from +r w to + ( d−r w ).

4. Calculate the BT time.

tBT d
−πhϕ
∫ dt = q d 2 ∫ ( x3 −d 2 x ) dx
0 0

3
 d
−πhϕ x 4 2
2 x
t BT =
qd
2
4[ −d
2 ]
0

−πhϕ d 4 d 4
t BT = ( −
q d2 4 2 )
π d 2 hϕ
t BT =
4 q

5. Estimate the Sweep Efficiency.

π d2 hϕ
W iBT =2q t BT =
2

V p=π d 2 hϕ=π d 2 hϕ
Therefore:
W iBT π d 2 hϕ
E ABT = =
Vp 4 π d2 hϕ
1
E ABT =
4