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Gas Material Balance Equation

PETE 301 Reservoir Engineering

Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim

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Hydrocarbon in place

Average pressure

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Unit recovery

 Bulk volume Vb is not known

 Reservoir calculations on a unit basis

 Usually 1 ac-ft of bulk reservoir rock, contains

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Unit recovery
 Bga is the gas volume factor at the
abandonment pressure

 Unit recovery is the difference between the initial

gas in place and that remaining at
abandonment pressure

Recovery factor
 A percentage of the initial in-place gas

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Example
 At initial reservoir pressure, gas volume factor is 0.00533
ft3/SCF
 At abandonment pressure, gas volume factor is 0.03623
ft3/SCF.
 Unit recovery?
 Recovery factor?

Solution

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With water drive

 Under initial condition

 Under abandonment condition

With water drive

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Example
 Produced under a water drive so that the pressure stabilizes at
1500 psia.
 If the residual gas saturation is 24% and the gas volume factor
at 1500 psia is 0.01122 ft3/SCF
 Unit recovery?
 Recovery factor?

Solution

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With water drive

 Water drive is very active
 Essentially no decline in reservoir pressure
 Bgi = Bga

Example

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Example

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MBE
 Original

 For gas

 Gas compressibility >> formation/water

compressibility

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MBE in volumetric gas reservoir

 No water

 Z-factor

 Isothermal

MBE in volumetric gas reservoir

 rearranged

 pi, zi, and G are constants

 a plot of p/z versus Gp would yield a straight line

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MBE in volumetric gas reservoir

MBE in water-drive gas reservoir

 Not linear due to water-drive
 From

 We have

 If no water

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Example

Solution
 reservoir gas pore volume

 initial gas in place

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Solution
 gas remaining at 500-psia abandonment
pressure

 initial gas reserve = difference

Example

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Solution

Solution
 This much water We has invaded 13.04 MM ft3 of bulk rock
that initially contained 25% connate water

 Then the residual gas saturation Sgr is 33%.

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Solution
 Use pseudocritical properties (recall Chap 2, P33)

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Recall

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Solution

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Solution

Thank You

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