Analyzing well production data using combined type curve and decline-curve analysis concepts

摘要

This pape presents new production decline curves for analyzing well production data from radial and vertically fractured oil and gas wells. These curves have been developed by combining Decline curve and Type curve analysis concepts to result in a practical tool which we feel can more easily estimate the gas (or oil) in place as well as to estimate reservoir permeability, skin efect, fracture length and conductivity, etc. Accuracy of this new method has been verified with numerical simulations and the methods have been used to perform analyses using production data from several different kinds of gas wells. Field and simulated examples are included to demonstrate the applicability and versatility of this technology.