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Method for predicting water invasion frontier for complex well in bottom-water gas reservoir

US12281564B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 28, 2024
Grant dateApr 22, 2025
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Expiry dateMar 28, 2044

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02A20/152
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for predicting a water invasion frontier for a complex well in a bottom-water gas reservoir. The technical solution is as follows: with consideration of forms of different well types and a gravitational pressure drop in production, a coupled permeability of a corresponding well type acting on a gas-water interface under the action of a baffle plate is expressed by using an equivalent percolation resistance method; a productivity of each infinitesimal section of the corresponding well type is calculated; a position of the gas-water interface is calculated with an equivalent permeability and a pseudo-productivity as characteristic parameters; water breakthrough is determined when there is a point over a water avoidance height, and a change in water invasion frontier form may be expressed with water quality point position data at this time.

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