Student: Victor Pugliese

R#: 11492336
Course: Advance Reservoir Engineering (PETR 5320)
Homework #3

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

Figure 1

Application

m3 r w =0.1 m
q=1,000 h=10 m
d
d=1,000m k =100 md φ=0.25
kgf
μ=1cp Φ av =200
c m2

Questions:

1. Calculate the velocities at any points.

−k Φ e −Φ w 1
U rad ( r )=

[ ( )]
μ
ln e
r
rw
r
 −k −qμ 1 q
U rad ( r )= [ ] =
μ 2 πkh r 2 πrh

m3 1 d 1h
U rad ( r )=
−1,000 ( )(
d 24 h 60 min )( 160mins )
2 πr∗10 m

m −1.842∗10−4
U rad [ ]
s
=
r [m]

2. Calculate the velocity along the X axis.

U x =U rad cos θ
y
θ=tan −1
x
Then,
−1.842∗10−4 y
U x=
r [m] (
cos tan−1
x )
3. Plot the velocity as a function of r.
The sign of the velocity is negative.