ENPE 533/622

PETROLEUM PRODUCTION ENGINEERING/SUBSURFACE PRODUCTION

OPERATIONS

ASSIGNMENT 6: WELL DELIVERABILITY

SOLUTIONS

1) Textbook Problem 6.1. Also, state which IPR model and which TPR model you (or the spreadsheet) are
using.

Use BottomHoleNodalGas.xls to obtain

IPR is Fetkovich applied to single phase gas flow.

TPR is the AverageTZ model.
 2) Textbook Problem 6.5. State which IPR, TPR and CPR you (or the spreadsheet) are using.

Operating flowrate = 3046 Mscf/d

Operating pressure = 884 psia
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IPR is Fetkovich applied to single phase gas flow.

TPR is the AverageTZ model.
CPR is sonic flow of gas model.
 3) Textbook Problem 6.3 – assume saturated flow and use the appropriate BottomHoleModalOil-XX.xls
spreadsheet. State which IPR and TPR models you (or the spreadsheet) are using.

Input data is appropriate for the BottomHoleModalOil-GG.xls model.

Liquid production rate, q = 1,225 bbl/d

Bottom hole pressure, pwf = 2,204 psia

IPR is saturated oil flow (Vogel model)

TPR is Guo-Ghalambor

4) Textbook Problem 6.7. State which IPR model you (or the spreadsheet are using).

Using WellheadModalOil-GG.xls we obtain

Liquid production rate, q = 1,412 bbl/d

Bottom hole pressure, pwf = 1,778 Psia
Wellhead pressure, phf = 256 Psia

IPR is saturated oil flow (Vogel model)

TPR is Guo-Ghalambor

5) Textbook Problem 6.8

Applying WellheadModalOil-HB.xls, we find

So q = 5200 bbl/d of liquid, and oil rate is 80% of the liquid rate, or 4160 bbl oil/d.
 6) For the data given in Problem 6.3, assume saturated flow and
a. Plot the IPR and TPR curves on a single plot; the x-axis should be the liquid flow rate.

Use Guo-GholamborBHP to generate TPR by calculating Pwf values for a given P_hf and various values of Q.

IPR is Vogel with qmax = 2200 stb/d

b. If the tubing inside diameter is increased 20%, what is the new production rate (what is the new
operating point), assuming no change in Phf.

Use Guo-GholamborBHP to generate TPR as for (a) but with larger tubing ID. New operating point indicates
q_liquid increases to ~1350 stb/d.
c. Plot WPR and CPR curves on a single plot for three choke sizes of 32/64 in., 48/64 in. and 64/64 in.

Use WellheadModalOil-GG.xls to generate WPR by setting choke sizes from 12/64 to 64/64 and running the
solver to obtain a series of values of liquid production rate and Phf. CPR is readily computed from the
multiphase flow model of Gilbert.
 d. Which choke size most closely corresponds to the operating point you found in Problem 6.3?

The operating point (black dot in plot below) from Problem 6.3 is the IPR/TPR intersection from (b), replotted
below. The flow rate determined there is quite close to the operating point determined from the WPR/CPR
intersection for a 32 1/64 in. choke (red dot). Note the IPR and TPR refer to wellbore bottomhole flowing pressure
Pwf on the lefthand y-axis, while WPR and CPR refer to wellhead flowing pressure Phf on the righthand y-axis.
 7) For the data given in problem 6.5,

a. Plot the IPR and TPR curves on a single plot of Pwf vs qsc. Set the flowing wellhead pressure Phf
to the value you calculated in Problem 6.5. What is the bottom hole flowing pressure Pwf?
Setting Pwf = 884 psia from Problem 6.5, produce the plot below from WellheadNodalGas-
SonicFlow.Corrected.xls and conclude that Pwf = 1200 psia.

b. If the tubing inside diameter is decreased 20%, what is the new production rate (what is the new
operating point) assuming no change in Phf.

See above plot. qsc = 2750 MSCF/D and Pwf = 1350 psia for the smaller tubing ID and Phf = 884 psia.

c. Determine whether the assumption in part (b) is valid; that is, compute Phf for the new production
rate computed in (b) assuming sonic flow.

choke flow at narrow tubing operating point

q_sc, sonic 2750 MSCFD
P_hf from CPR 800 psia

d. Given your answer to c), do you expect the actual new production rate when narrower tubing is
installed to be larger or smaller than the value computed in (b)?
S
maller actual Phf (choke imposes 800 psia at the operating point of 2750 MSCF/D whereas 884 psia was
used to calculate the operating point) would enable the same flow rate to occur at smaller bottomhole
flowing pressure. This would shift the TPR downward. Smaller bottomhole pressure would enable
larger flow rate from the reservoir, and this is consistent with a downward-shifted TPR intersecting the
IPR at larger flow rate and lower Pwf than the grey curve plotted above. Consequently expect larger
flow rate than calculated in (b).

e. Check your answer to d) by plotting WPR and CPR curves on a single plot for the smaller tubing
ID.
From the plot with tubing ID = 1.807 (see below), the flow rate is 2830 MSCF/D at a wellhead flowing
pressure of 822 psia. As expected, this flow rate is larger than the 2750 MSCF/D calculated for the
wellhead flowing pressure of 884 psia.