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Field Development Strategy

© Curtis H. Whitson Base Case


User Input Well
See IPR!
Average Well k 200 md 200
Average Well h 152.4 m 152
Average Well skin 0 0
Average Well CR (reservoir) #VALUE! Sm3/d/bara2 #VALUE!

See Tubing!
Average Well Inner Tubing Diameter 6.50 in 6.50 in
Average Well CT (tubing) #VALUE! Sm3/d/bara #VALUE! Sm3/d/bara
Initial Gas in Place 3.367E+10 Sm3
Initial Reservoir Pressure 275.8 bara
Initial Water Saturation 0.2 fraction
Aquifer Volume Ratio, M 1 =Vaq/VpR
Aquifer Water Compressibility 4.35E-05 1/bar
Aquifer Rock Compressibility 7.25E-05 1/bar
Aquifer Effective Compressibility, ce 2.47E-04 1/bar
Errosional Gas Rate, qgerrosion 3.00E+06 Sm3/d
Minimum Tubinghead Pressure, Ptmin 70 bara
Plateau Length 7 years
End-Plateau Target Recovery (Gp/G) 56 %
Maximum Number of Wells 50
Minimum Velocity to Lift 1.5 m/s
Minimum Rate to Lift (at Ptmin) #VALUE! Sm3/d per well
Surface-Datum Correction (exp(S/2)) #VALUE!

Target Plateau Rate 2.69E+09 Sm3/year


7.38E+06 Sm3/d

Average Allowed No
Well AOFP AOFP qgF Aquifer
Time Pc CR qgmax qg* Nw qgF % of Gp Gp/G Pw Pt PR Pwf PR
years bara Sm3/d/bara2 Sm3/d Sm3/d Sm3/d target Sm3 % bara bara bara bara bara

0.0 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! 0.00E+00 0.0 #VALUE! #VALUE! 276 #VALUE! 276
0.5 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
1.0 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
1.5 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
2.0 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
Reservoir IPR (Infow Performance Relation) Equation
Darcy Equation, pressure-squared

Permeability 200 md
Thickness 152 m 500 ft
Skin 0
Initial Gas Z-factor #VALUE!
Initial Gas Density #VALUE! kg/m3
Initial Gas Viscosity #VALUE! cp
Reservoir Temperature 93.33 oC 200 oF

ln(re/rw)-0.75 8

CR #VALUE! Sm3/d/bara2 #VALUE! scf/D/psia2


Tubing Equation
Vertical Well

True Vertical Depth 2210.4 m 7250 ft


Tubing Inner Diameter 0.165 m 6.5 in
Wellstream Gravity 1.111 air=1 1.111 air=1
Average Z-factor #VALUE! at Ptmin #VALUE!
Average Temperature 55 oC 131 oF

S #VALUE!
exp(S) #VALUE! term for correcting surface p2 to BH p2 (pc2->pR2)
exp(S/2) #VALUE! term for correcting surface p to BH p (pc->pR)
Fr 0.00081
CT #VALUE! Sm3/d/bara #VALUE! scf/D/psia
P w 2 - P t2, bara2 1E+01

1E+00
1E+00 Gas1E+01
Rate, Sm3/d 1E+02
Well Rates and Well Numbers
Field
1.2E+07 10

1.0E+07 qg*
qgmax 8
Average-Well Rates, Sm3/d

Required Number of Wells


Column Q
8.0E+06 Nw
6

6.0E+06

4
4.0E+06

2
2.0E+06

0.0E+00 0
0 5 10 15 20 25
Time, years
P re s s u re s P c , P w , P t (b a ra ) a n d F ie ld
R a te q g F (1 E 6 S m 3 /d )

50
100
150
200
250

0
0
5
10
qgF

Time, years
15
20
Pc (Average Reservoir)
Pw (Bottomhole Flowing)
Pt (Tubinghead Flowing)

25
0
2
4
6
8
10
12

R e q u ire d N u m b e r o f W e lls , N w
Field Rate and Well Numbers
Field
1E+08 50

qg*
8E+07 40

Required Number of Wells


Nw
Field Rate, Sm3/d

6E+07 30

4E+07 20

2E+07 10

0E+00 0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Time, years
Gas Material Balance
Aquifer Volume Ratio, M 1
350
Inlcuding Aquifer
300
No Aquifer
250

200
p/Z, bara

150

100

50

0
0 20 40 60 80 100
Cumulative Gas Recovery, Gp/G, %
Gas Material Balance
Field
400
Aquifer Volume Ratio, M 1
350
Average Reservoir Pressure, bara

300
Inlcuding Aquifer
250
No Aquifer

200

150

100

50

0
0 20 40 60 80 100
Cumulative Gas Recovery, Gp/G, %
Sheet 1 - Average Gas Properties
Basic Gas PVT Properties for Field

red Input (different for each application of spreadsheet)


green Input (same for each application of spreadsheet)
blue Important Calculated Results

RESULTS:
Specific Gravity 1.1111 air=1 Sutton Correlations:
Tpc 259.0 K 259.0 K
Ppc 41.84 bara 41.84 bara
SCRATCH calculations

Comp. yi Mi SGi Tci Pci m=yM yTc yPc


mol-% kg/kmol water=1 K bara kg K bara

N2 0.35 28 469.5 126.3 33.99 9.8 44.2 11.9


CO2 0.35 44 499.5 304.2 73.82 15.4 106.5 25.8
C1 92.35 16 329.7 190.6 46.04 1477.6 17601.9 4251.8
C2 3.35 30 449.6 305.4 48.8 100.5 1023.1 163.5
C3 1.20 44 507.2 369.8 42.49 52.8 443.8 51.0
iC4 0.30 58 560.7 408.2 36.48 17.4 122.5 10.9
nC4 0.30 58 583.8 425.2 37.97 17.4 127.6 11.4
iC5 0.20 72 626.8 460.4 33.81 14.4 92.1 6.8
nC5 0.15 72 629.5 469.7 33.69 10.8 70.5 5.1
C6 0.25 86 659.7 507.4 30.12 21.5 126.9 7.5
C7+ 1.20 135 775.0 615.5 25.19 162.0 738.6 30.2

Total 100.00 19.00 205.0 45.76 1899.6 20497.4 4575.9


Sheet 2 - Gas PVT f(p)
Basic Gas PVT Properties for Field

Gravity 1.1111 (air=1) Lee et al.


Tpc 259.0 K A1 0.0113
Ppc 41.84 bara A2 5.268
TR 366.4833 K 93.33333 C A3 1.275
Tpr 1.415

Lee et al.
Inverse Density Viscosity Delta pp
p ppr Z Bg bg=1/Bg dg ug ugZ p/Z p/uZ 1/ugBg 2(p/uZ)dp pp
bara m3/Sm3 Sm3/m3 g/cm3 mPa-s mPa-s bara bara/mPa-s 1/mPa-s bar2/mPa-s bar2/mPa-s

600 14.341 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
580 13.863 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
560 13.385 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
540 12.907 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
520 12.429 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
500 11.951 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
480 11.473 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
460 10.995 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
440 10.517 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
420 10.039 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
400 9.561 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
380 9.083 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
360 8.605 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
340 8.127 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
320 7.649 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
300 7.171 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
275.8 6.592 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
260 6.215 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
240 5.737 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
220 5.258 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
200 4.780 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
180 4.302 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
160 3.824 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
140 3.346 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
120 2.868 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
100 2.390 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
80 1.912 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
60 1.434 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
40 0.956 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
20 0.478 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
1 0.024 #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! 0 0
Field
10.60 0.08
9.60 Z-factor
Viscosity
8.60
0.06
7.60

Viscosity, mPa-s
6.60
Z-factor

5.60 0.04
4.60
3.60
0.02
2.60
1.60
0.60 0.00
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Pressure, bara
12
Field
p/uZ
1.50E+07
10 Pp

Pseudopressure, Pp, bar2/(mPa-s)


p/uZ, bara/(mPa-s)

8
1.00E+07

4
5.00E+06

0 0.00E+00
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

Pressure, bara

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