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------------- (2)
Where
psc = standard pressure, psia Tsc = standard temperature, R
Qg = gas flow rate, scf/day qgr = gas flow rate at radius r, bbl/day
p = pressure at radius r, psia T = reservoir temperature, R
z = gas compressibility factor at p and Tz sc = gas compressibility factor at standard
condition 1.0
Considering Tsc = 520 R and psc = 14.7 psia, the equation yield:
------------------------- (3)
Integrating Equation (3) from the wellbore conditions (rw and
pwf) to any point in the reservoir (r and p) to give:
------------------------- (4)
Imposing the condition of Steady-state flow which requires that
Qg is constant at all radii and Homogeneous formation which
implies that k and h are also constant, the above equation is
transformed as:
where
Therefore,
--------------- (5)
Integral o p ( 2p / g z) dp is called the real gas potential or real
gas Pseudo pressure and usually represented by m(p) or . i. e.
------------ (6) and the equation (5) gives:
or
----------- (7)
----------------------------------------------- (9)
Where
e = real gas potential as evaluated from 0 to pe, psi 2/cp
w = real gas potential as evaluated from 0 to Pwf, psi2/cp
k = permeability, md h = thickness, ft.
re = drainage radius, ft. rw = wellbore radius, ft.
Qg = gas flow rate, scf/day
-------------------------------------------- (10)
--------------------------- (11)
Modification:
The exact gas flow rate , which incorporates the term 2/z may
be modified as constant(?), the equation (11) may be written as:
------------------------- (12)
Where
Qg = gas flow rate, Mscf/day and k = permeability, md
The term (g z ) avg is evaluated at an average pressure p,
given as
Note:
This modified method is called the pressure-squared method.
*** Only for the pressure range of < 2000 psi
Example
Step 3. Calculate numerically the area under the curve for each value of p.
These areas correspond to the real gas potential at each pressure.
These values are tabulated below and versus p is also plotted in
the figure above.
Remarks:
Results show that the pressure-squared method approximates the
exact solution of 37,614 with an absolute error of 1.86%. This
error is due to the limited applicability of the pressure-squared
method to a pressure range of <2000 psi.