GasCals v. 1.

3


What its doing:

This program calculates the Shut In Wellhead Pressure (when it is given the reservoir pressure)
for a well full with gas, and the Reservoir pressure in static and flowing conditions (steady
flow) when the wellhead pressure is known.

How its do it:

The calculation is done by the Cullender-Smith method. The gas viscosity is based on the Carr,
Kobayashi and Burrows for gas mixtures corrected for mixtures with N
2
, CO
2
and H
2
S. The
compressibility factor is calculated with Peng - Robinson equation of state.
The program should be used for vertical or near vertical wells.

How it works:

- Input data in the light yellow fields. If the gas composition is unknown, input 100 (percents)
in the cell of Methane and 0 in all the rest of the components.

Mole
Name
[%]
C1 (CH
4
) 80.57
C2 (C
2
H
6
) 6.95
C3 (C
3
H
8
) 2.47
iC4 (C
4
H
10
) 0.405
nC4 (C
4
H
10
) 0.695
iC5 (C
5
H
12
) 0.26
nC5 (C
5
H
12
) 0.36
C6 (C
6
H
14
) 0.62
C7 (C
7
H
16
) 0.44
C8 (C
8
H
18
) 0.385
CO
2
6.685
N
2
0.16
H
2
S
O
2


- In the temperature profile the data can be input manually or it can be generated based on the
surface data + a temperature gradient. Please note this temperature profile is the temperature
distribution in the column of gas filling the hole, not the rock's temperature profile. If you dont
have the temperature profile you can chose a straight line (drawn between the surface
temperature and the reservoir temperature or an exponential function like




where a can be 2 to 7 (for example) and b can be 0.2 to 0.5 (for example). However at the
moment this function its not implemented and you have to generate the points on a separate
excel sheet, copy and paste them on the cells L5 to M26.

The calculation interval is 1/1000 of the TVD of the well for the version .

Example: a=3, b=0.3, Ts=110 [C], Tres = 146 [C]


Temp profile
TVD TVD TVD TVD Tem p Tem p Tem p Tem p
[m] [C]
0 110.00
50 119.70
110 122.29
190 124.48
270 126.09
400 128.10
600 130.44
900 133.09
1,300 135.78
1,600 137.44
1,900 138.89
2,090 139.73
2,280 140.51
2,470 141.26
2,660 141.96
2,850 142.63
3,040 143.26
3,230 143.88
3,420 144.46
3,610 145.02
3,800 145.57
4,000 146.12
Temperature profile
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
0 50 100 150 200
Temp [C]
T
V
D


[
m
]
b
TVD a Ts TVD T + = ) (

Calculate
WHP

Example temperature profile (linear) generated:




Fill Reservoir pressure and TVD, and press








The result will be shown in:



Temp profile
TVD TVD TVD TVD Tem p Tem p Tem p Tem p
[m] [C]
0 110.00
190 111.90
380 113.80
570 115.70
760 117.60
950 119.50
1,140 121.40
1,330 123.30
1,520 125.20
1,710 127.10
1,900 129.00
2,090 130.90
2,280 132.80
2,470 134.70
2,660 136.60
2,850 138.50
3,040 140.40
3,230 142.30
3,420 144.20
3,610 146.10
3,800 148.00
4,000 150.00
Reservoir
Pressure TVD
[psi] [m]
11,230 4,000
Wellhead
pressure
[psi]
9,036.1
Temperature profile
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
0 50 100 150 200
Temp [C]
T
V
D


[
m
]
To calculate the Reservoir Pressure either static or flowing well, fill in the wellhead pressure,
select the appropriate option, and click the button:

Wellhead
pressure
[psi]
8,921.7


However for the well flowing (once again, steady flow) you have to fill supplementary data:

Flow Flowing path
rate ID Rough.
[Mscfd] [in] [in]
12000 2.441 0.0023

The measuring units are customizable except the Flow Rate, Pipe ID and Roughness, at least in
version . You have the possibility to select the desired units for the different parameters by
pressing the "Change units" button.
However this will not convert the data you input!
The interpolated values for pressure, compressibility factor, density and temperature are
provided on the sheet Charts.
The input sheet is not "fool proof" therefore pay attention to the data you fill in, to the
measuring units you use and to get 100% by the summation of the fractions of mole of the
mixture (cell B30).
Calculate BHP
Static Flowing