Beh vior of W ter Cresting nd Production Perform nce of Horizont l Well in Bottom W ter Drive Reservoir: Sc led Model Study

摘要

Although application of horizontal well technology is categorized as a relatively new and expensive but it has been proven more effective and efficient in producing oil. However, the production rate strategy to obtain optimal result has not been well developed due to the difficulties to identify the influence and interaction of forces related to fluid flow mechanisms in reservoir. Particularly for oil reservoir with bottom water drive, the movement of water-oil contact/interface in a reservoir is strongly affected by interaction of the acting forces, such as: viscous force, gravity force and capillary force. The main objective of this research is to study and investigate the influence of the forces interaction on production performance of the horizontal well producing oil from bottom water drive reservoir. For this purpose, a physical scaled model has been successfully constructed to simulate the prooduction performance. Scaling down and construction of t he model are performed by using dimensional analysis. Results show that the interaction of the forces in the reservoir strongly affects the well production, in which the production performance increases as the ratio of gravity to viscous forces increases for all cases examined. Meanwhile, the changing of capillary force, which was believed by several researchers that it has no pronounced effect to the fluid flow mechanism in the reservoir, shows significant effect to the production performance of the well. The influence of reduced capillary forces in reservoir will enhance the well production performance. Consequently, in term of the ratio of gravity to capillary force, an increase in the ratio tends to improve the oil recovery.