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PERFORMANCE
(Chapter 8)
Presented By:Michael Okuneye
(K00285804)
Introduction
Engineers are often called upon to predict the
pressure-production behavior of wells to determine
their productive capacity.
Having an idea of the pressure-rate behavior
enables engineer to evaluate various operating
scenarios to ascertain the optimum production
scheme and to design and install surface and
subsurface production equipment when necessary.
To understand the flow capacity of a gas well
requires a relationship between the inflow gas rate
and the flowing bottom-hole pressure.
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.(8)
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The Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent
(LIT) Approach
Pressure-Squared Quadratic Form
Equation 12 can be written in a more simplified form as
(21)
with
(22)
.(23)
The term (a Qg) in Equation 21 represents the pressure-squared
drop due to laminar flow while the term (b Q 2g) accounts for the
pressure squared drop due to inertial-turbulent flow effects.
Equation 21 can be linearized by dividing both sides of the equation
by Qg to yield:
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The Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent
(LIT) Approach
Pressure-Squared Quadratic Form
The coefficients a and b can be determined by plotting
versus Qg on a Cartesian scale and should yield a straight
line with a slope of b and intercept of a.
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The Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent
(LIT) Approach
Pressure-Quadratic Form
The pressure-approximation equation, i.e., Equation 15, can be
rearranged and expressed in the following quadratic form.
..(24)
..(25)
..(26)
The term (a1 Qg) in Equation 24 represents the pressure drop
due to laminar flow while the term (b 1 Q2g) accounts for the
pressure drop due to inertial-turbulent flow effects.
Equation 24 can be linearized by dividing both sides of the
equation
by Qg to yield:
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The Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent
(LIT) Approach
Pressure-Quadratic Form
The coefficients a1 and b1 can be determined by plotting
versus Qg on a Cartesian scale and should yield a
straight line with a slope of b1 and intercept of a1.
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The Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent
(LIT) Approach
Pseudopressure Quadratic Approach
Equation 16 can be written as:
.(27)
..(28)
..(29)
The term (a2 Qg) in Equation 27 represents the pseudopressure drop due to
laminar flow while the term (b2 Q2g) accounts for the psuedopressure drop due
to inertial-turbulent flow effects.
Equation 27can be linearized by dividing both sides of the equation
by Qg to yield:
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The Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent
(LIT) Approach
Pseudopressure Quadratic Approach
The coefficients a2 and b2 can be determined by plotting
versus Qg on a Cartesian scale and should yield a straight
line with a slope of b2 and intercept of a2.
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Thank You
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