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The optimization of well spacing has become more important in unconventional shale reservoirs to efficiently design infill developments, estimate the Stimulated Reservoir Volume (SRV), and more importantly the estimation of Ultimate Oil Recovery (EUR) from each well. This paper presents a new analytical solution to estimate the start and end of pseudo-transient flow for the data production analysis where boundary-dominated flow exists in the induced fractures hence estimate the SRV for hydraulically fractured horizontal wells for unconventional shale reservoirs.This paper presents a semi-analytical model to obtain the pressure transient response to characterize the flow and estimate the boundary effect which can be used to analyze the field data in unconventional shale reservoirs. The results from the model are compared and validated against an in-house developed numerical simulation model. The semi-analytical model is based on trilinear model where the SRV is modeled using dual-porosity idealization. The developed model involves the simulation of interference tests for two hydraulically-fractured horizontal well in unconventional shale reservoir using the real-time distributed pressure data. The proposed asymptotic solution evaluates not only the pseudo-transient in induced fractures but also the matrix.The pressure measurements from real-time distributed pressure sensors and the production measurement using interference test provide a better understanding of the physical phenomena of the interaction between the parent and child wells in shale reservoirs. This paper presents a new model to assess the interference characteristics in horizontal wells to evaluate the optimum well spacing in unconventional shale reservoirs. It is observed that the production from a well is greatly affected by the distance of the wells, the reservoir properties between the wells, and the matrix permeability. It is presented that if the matrix permeability is lower, the start of the pseudo transient flow is sooner; therefore, the drainage volume becomes smaller. This can be observed by comparing the field data from unconventional shale reservoirs in Bakken and Eagle Ford where the matrix permeability in Bakken is higher than that of the Eagle Ford; therefore, the wells observe longer linear flow regime in higher permeability with larger SRV and in-turn larger well-spacing. The proposed asymptotic solution can also be used to analyze the field data in unconventional shale reservoirs to decipher the productivity and economics of horizontal wells.To effectively produce from unconventional shale reservoirs, an optimum well spacing is required. This paper presents a novel asymptotic solution to characterize the flow regimes and provide a novel formulation in analyzing the pressure and rate variation with time to forecast future performance. |
