Practical Solutions for Pressure-Transient Responses of Fractured Horizontal Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

摘要

An analytical trilinear-flow solution was developed to simulate the pressure-transient and production behavior of fractured horizontal wells in unconventional reservoirs. This solution provides an alternative to rigorous solutions, which can be cumbersome to evaluate. These solutions provide insight about and the conditions leading to these flow regimes. Identifying these flow regimes is important to characterize unconventional reservoirs from pressure-transient tests.