Inflow Performance of a Stacked Multilateral Well

摘要

The use of multilateral well is becoming an emerging method to improve oil recovery efficiently. A stacked multilateral well can produce fluids from two or more separate productive zones. Unlike a commingled vertical well, inflow performance relationship (IPR) of a multilateral system is influenced by wellbore hydraulics of the horizontal boreholes. As a rock and fluid properties may vary considerably from one zone to another, construction of the composite IPR would become a necessity in an effort to evaluate and optimize the production performance.