Analysis of Oil Production Behavior for the Fractured Basement Reservoir

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  [a] Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering Lab., Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University.
  * Corresponding author.
  Supported by the Energy Efficiency & Resources of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by Korea Government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (No.2010201010092A).
  Received 1 January 2013; accepted 14 March 2013
  Abstract
  Unlike naturally fractured reservoir, fractured basement reservoir (FBR) has almost non-permeable matrix and flow is strongly dependent upon fracture network. This might cause the rapid changing behavior on oil production whether fracture near wellbore is saturated with either oil or water. In this aspect, realistic representation of fracture network is essential in FBR. Therefore the simulation of FBR is generally applied by dual-porosity (DP) continuum approach because discrete fractured network (DFN) simulator with multiphase flow is not commercially available except in-house model.
  In this paper, hybrid DFN approach is applied, which is continuum model coupled with local grid refinement (LGR). LGR is adapted at the cells which are passing through fractures, in order to represent fracture width less than 0.1 ft. Up to now, LGR is mostly used for well block rather than the fracture. In this approach, well control volume can not be described by LGR cell, thus, four-leg horizontal well concept substitutes the vertical well with the use of equivalent wellbore radius for overcoming the numerical convergence problem. The application of hybrid DFN approach for FBR is discussed about investigation of the possibility for drastic change on oil production. Based on the results, in fractured reservoir using hybrid DFN approach, oil production is not found to be proportional to the magnitude of matrix permeability, not as in porous system with dual-porosity approach. Also, we realized that oil production is once dropped it can not be recovered back to previous level in FBR. This is because oil-saturated fracture near well is once changed to water-saturated, then, there was not anymore changes occurred within the same fracture.
  Key words: Dual-porosity; Hybrid DFN; Fractured basement reservoir; Local grid refinement
  Han, J. J., Lee, T. H., & Sung, W. M. (2013). Analysis of Oil Production Behavior for the Fractured Basement Reservoir Using Hybrid Discrete Fractured Network Approach. Advances in Petroleum Exploration and Development, 5(1), -0. Available from: URL: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/aped/article/view/j.aped.1925543820130501.1068   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.aped.1925543820130501.1068
  NOMENCLATURE
  Figure 1
  Reservoir System
  The fracture networks are composed of 19 major fractures that have a fracture aperture of 0.1 ft. We applied LGR for 3×3 cells to describe more realistic fractures for all of fracture cells. The permeability of the fractures (kf) is 2000 md and that of the matrix (km) is 0.1 md, assuming almost no flow. These fractures are 100% saturated with oil of 43° API gravity. The viscosities of the oil and the water are 2.0 cp and 0.5 cp, respectively. Kazemi’s model was adopted to represent relative permeability and capillary pressure. The mobile range of water saturation of relative permeability in the system is form 0.25 to 0.70. The capillary pressure is assumed to be the same in both the fracture and the matrix, and the capillary pressure end points are 4.0 psi, as indicated in Figure 2 (Kazemi et al., 1976).
  Figure 2
  Relative Permeability Curves for Oil and Water and Capillary Pressure
  The production well is located in the fracture near the center of the system. Since it is difficult to install a production well in an LGR system having 0.1 ft of fracture aperture at intercepted cell, we applied equivalent system of four horizontal-leg wells to correspond to a vertical well (Figure 3).
  Figure 3
  Well Block Description
  The production well was produced at a bottomhole pressure (BHP) of 5500 psia during the production period. The other reservoir properties are given in Table 1.
  2. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
  The fluids in FBR flow mainly through fracture networks because the matrix permeability of these reservoirs is extremely low. Because fluid flow through fracture network leads to sudden changes in production, we performed a simulation that is applied by using the hybrid DFN approach to understand flow behavior in the FBR. The absolute permeability of the matrix and the fracture are 0.1 md and 2000 md, respectively, and all boundary pressures maintain an initial reservoir pressure of 6000 psia. The oil-saturation distribution during 25 years of this resulting production is indicated in Figure 4. The inflow of oil into the fracture of a nearby production well is affected by inflow of water from the aquifer, because the production well is located in the fracture that is closed and is connected to the aquifer. Therefore, as shown Figure 5, the oil production rate decreased remarkably, as the water production rapidly increased after 400 days.   Figure 4
  Oil Saturation Distributions During 25 Years of Production with Matrix Permeability of 0.1 md
  Figure 5
  Oil Production Rate and Water Cut for General Case During 25 Years
  To examine these phenomena in more detail, we divided area “A” and area “B” in 25 years of production (Figure 6). First, “A” is the area where oil from the upper oil boundary meets water from the lower aquifer. In this area, oil flows into the production well is obstructed by water flow, because the oil viscosity (2.0 cp) is greater than the water viscosity (0.5 cp), and the production well is located near the aquifer. Considering that such conditions were maintained for 25 years, we knew that oil flowing into the production well would not change, although the production well continued to produce after 25 years. Second, area “B” represents the dead fracture in which only one side of the fracture is connected to the other fractures. In this area, we could show residual oil that did not move after flowing into the dead fracture. Due to such disturbance between the fluids, the oil remained and the pressure did not decrease at the upper left of the system. Therefore, to extract oil trapped in FBR, an infill well must be considered at area “A” outside the influenced area of the production well, as illustrated in Figure 7.
  We performed the simulation by changing the absolute permeability of the matrix from 0.1 md to 100 md to determine the importance of fluid flow through the fracture according to the magnitude of the absolute permeability of the matrix. Figure 8 represents the oil-saturation distribution according to the magnitude of the absolute permeability of the matrix during six years of production. In the case of 0.1 md, the fluids flowed only through the fracture networks. Oil was bypassed at the dotted line for the case of 1 md, in which the fluids flowed into the matrix, but the amount of oil was much less than the fluids flowing through the fractures. However, fluids flowed not only through fractures but also through the matrix because of the higher absolute matrix permeability in the cases of 10 md and 100 md. Consequently, we observed an irregular water cut, instead of an increasing water cut, with increasing absolute permeability of the matrix (Figure 9). That is, water for the system of 0.1, 1.0, 10, and 100 md starts producing at the times of 63, 613, 631, and 73 days, respectively.
  Figure 9
  Comparison of Water Cut for Matrix Permeability of 0.1, 1, 10, 100 md During 6 Years   We constructed a DP system that corresponds to the hybrid DFN system to compare the two systems. Absolute permeability of the matrix and fracture in both models are 0.1 md and 2000 md, respectively. All boundary conditions are maintained at the reservoir initial pressure (6000 psia). The distribution of pressure differed remarkably after 1 year of production simulated by hybrid DFN and DP approaches (Figure 10). In the DP system, pressure decreased homogeneously around the production well. Meanwhile, the pressure decreased heterogeneously through fracture networks in the hybrid DFN system, which reflects the complexity of fracture networks. Due to this effect, oil production rate curves for these simulations showed that the hybrid DFN curve decreased more rapidly than the DP curve during early production (Figure 11). Moreover, the curves of oil production rates cross one another after 6 years. Therefore, we expect that the analytical results for the same reservoir, such as total production rate and total duration of production, may differ owing to the difference in expression between the two models for fracture networks.
  Figure 10
  Distribution of Pressure After 1 Year of Production Dual Porosity and Hybrid DFN
  Figure 11
  Comparison of Oil Production Rate and Water Cut, Calculated by Dual Porosity and Hybrid DFN
  To determine the cause of rapidly changing production, which is characteristic of FBR, we analyzed which type of fluid in the fracture changes to another type of fluid according to differing boundary conditions, i.e., whether the fluid in the fracture changes from oil to water and then to oil again. Case “A” is based on the original case in which all of the boundary conditions remained at the reservoir initial pressure. Case “B” represents the depleted reservoir, which had the pressure of oil boundary condition that was lower than the pressure of water boundary condition. In case “C”, the reservoir was connected with the small aquifer that had the lower pressure of oil boundary condition. In these results, all three cases showed no change in the type of fluid in the fracture once the original saturated fluid (oil) in the fracture changed into another fluid (water), according to the effect of the boundary condition (Figure 12).
  Figure 12
  Oil Saturation Distributions During 15 Years of Production
  Figure 13 and 14 showed that oil production in the cases of “A” and “B” showed a similar decrease. However, oil production in the case of “C” decreased after the effect of the aquifer disappeared, and then regular oil production resumed by oil flow from the oil boundary after 1.5 days. The monotonic production behavior exhibited in all three cases showed that the type of fluid in the fracture did not change after the original oil-saturated fracture became saturated by water caused by the effect of the aquifer on the FBR. Therefore, the decreased oil production behavior is not reversed by flowing water in the production well.   We performed simulations to observe the flow pattern of fluids under the influence of well locations for porous and fractured basement reservoirs. Figure 15 shows the oil-saturation distribution for the hybrid DFN according to well location after 10 years of production. In the case of a well located at “A”, water did not flow into the upper left side of the fractures of the production well. However, in the case of a well located at “B”, although the production well was located near the oil boundary, water flowed into the upper left side of the fractures of production well.
  Figure 15
  Comparison of Fracture Networks According to Well Location in the Basement Reservoir After 10 Years
  Figure 16
  Oil Production Rate for the Porous Reservoir System and the Basement Fractured Reservoir System
  We compared the results for a porous reservoir and a fractured basement reservoir to examine the importance of fluid flow through a fracture network. As shown in Figure 16, the oil production rates of production wells located at “A” and “B” differed greatly between the two models. Therefore, the flow behavior is significantly affected by well location, because fluid flow through fractures is predominant for a fractured basement reservoir compared to a porous reservoir.
  CONCLUSION
  In this study, we have attempted to examine the drastic change of oil production in fractured basement reservoir. Hybrid DFN approach was applied by using local grid refinement method for representing the fracture more realistically in finite difference method simulator. From the results, we have drawn the following conclusions:
  (1) In fractured reservoir using hybrid DFN approach, oil production is not found to be proportional to the magnitude of matrix permeability not as in porous system with dual-porosity approach.
  (2) In accordance with the results of hybrid DFN comparing to DP approach, the reservoir pressure declined in a form of fracture network and consequently the production behavior can be also expected to be occurred rapid change unlike smoothing change in DP approach.
  (3) We realized that oil production is rapidly dropped once, it can not be returned back to previous level in FBR. This is because oil-saturated fracture near well is once changed to water-saturated, then, these was not anymore changes occurred within the same fracture.
  (4) In the influence of well location in FBR compared against porous system, it was concluded that in FBR. Well location is much more sensitive on oil production comparing to porous reservoir, since oil flows only through extremely high conductive fracture network.   REFERENCES
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