Sensitivity Analysis and Prediction of Gas Reservoirs Performance Supported by an Aquifer Based using Box-Behnken Design and Simulation Studies

Document Type : Research Paper

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Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Prediction of gas reservoir performance in some industrial cases requires costly and time-consuming simulation runs and a strong CPU must be involved in the simulation procedure. Many reservoir parameters conform to a strong aquifer behavior on gas reservoir performance. Effects of parameters, including reservoir permeability, aquifer permeability, initial reservoir pressure, brine water salinity, gas zone thickness, water zone thickness, temperature, tubing diameter, reservoir inclination, the effective intruding angle of the aquifer, and porosity were investigated using Tornado chart, and seven parameters were filtered. Response functions of aquifer productivity index, gas recovery factor, initial maximum gas production, water sweep efficiency, gas production rate, water breakthrough time, and water production were defined statistically, using Eclipse E100 and Box-Behnken design (BBD). According to the formulae generated by the BBD based on simulation runs, reservoir permeability, aquifer permeability, well-head pressure, and gas zone thickness are the most influencing parameters on the gas reservoir performance supported by the strong aquifer. The aquifer was found to be important especially due to its productivity index and sweep water efficiency. Validation of results given by the BBD through simulation runs showed response functions of aquifer productivity index, sweep water efficiency, maximum gas production, and recovery factor are of deviation percentages in the ranges of 10.61%, 6.302%, 3.958%, and 2.04%, respectively.

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