The objective of this paper is to investigate the transient pressure behavior of Cold Heavy Oil Production(CHOP) wells with the consideration of wormhole configurations and foamy oil flow.Wormholes provide main conduits for foamy oil flow in the production process,and foamy oil is highly compressible owing to the dispersed and encompassed gas bubbles.This study proposes a comprehensive model to describe the transient flow of matured CHOP wells.Then,the transient pressure behavior has been extensively analyzed.The model not only provides reliable transient pressure responses of matured CHOP wells,but also offers a way to estimate the possible wormhole configurations and to understand the possible pressure drop along wormholes.
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