US20150039276A1 - Systems and Methods for Estimating Fluid Breakthrough Times at Producing Well Locations - Google Patents

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US20150039276A1 US14/377,800 US201214377800A US2015039276A1 US 20150039276 A1 US20150039276 A1 US 20150039276A1 US 201214377800 A US201214377800 A US 201214377800A US 2015039276 A1 US2015039276 A1 US 2015039276A1
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  • the present invention generally relates to estimating fluid breakthrough times at producing well locations. More particularly, the invention relates to estimating fluid breakthrough times at producing well locations based on fluid propagation simulations.
  • HM technology has evolved tremendously and gained major recognition and expansion from the traditional (i.e. manual, deterministic) approach, mostly built on stratigraphic methods to new developments like probabilistic, streamline-based HM, sensitivity/gradient-based and experimental design.
  • the present invention includes a method for estimating a fluid breakthrough time at a production well based on fluid propagation simulation data, comprising: i) identifying streamline tracking data; ii) calculating an average streamline travel time in each grid-cell based on the streamline tracking data; iii) identifying a shortest or fastest streamline for the production well using the average streamline travel time in each grid-cell; iv) calculating an average time-of-flight for the shortest or fastest streamline over each traversed grid-cell using a computer processor; and v) estimating the fluid breakthrough time at the production well using the fluid propagation simulation data, and the average time-of-flight for the shortest or fastest streamline.
  • the present invention includes a non-transitory program carrier device tangibly carrying computer executable instructions for estimating a fluid breakthrough time at a production well.
  • the instructions being executable to implement: i) identifying streamline tracking data; ii) calculating an average streamline travel time in each grid-cell based on the streamline tracking data; iii) identifying a shortest or fastest streamline for the production well using the average streamline travel time in each grid-cell; iv) calculating an average time-of-flight for the shortest or fastest streamline over each traversed grid-cell using; and v) estimating the fluid breakthrough time at the production well using the fluid propagation simulation data, and the average time-of-flight for the shortest or fastest streamline.
  • FIG. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating one embodiment of a method for implementing the present invention.
  • FIG. 2A illustrates the velocity and the direction of fluid propagating through a wide sand pocket.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the streamline travel time along its arc length within a given grid-cell (i,j,k) of a 2D permeability model.
  • FIG. 7D illustrates the observed (measured) water-cut curve for the producing well P 4 in FIG. 4A .
  • FIG. 1 a flow diagram illustrates one embodiment of a method 100 for implementing the present invention.
  • Velocity vectors 202 , 204 are utilized in the FPS algorithm.
  • the FPS algorithm is designed to perform one simulation of a numerical variable using the Eden simulation technique.
  • the technique provides a faster alternative solution for a multiphase fluid flow simulation program.
  • the technique combines a dual medium “black and white” example where white represents sand and black represents shale with one or more injection wells and one or more production wells as illustrated in FIG. 3 .
  • the locations of sand facies 302 , 304 , 306 , and of two injection wells 307 , 308 are illustrated.
  • step 104 the FPS data results from step 102 are identified, which includes the fluid invasion time given by the number of simulation iterations needed for the fluid to reach any production well (P m ) from an injection well through one or more grid-cells representing the reservoir property model.
  • the streamline tracking data are identified using any well known technique, which include the number of streamline segments traversing each grid-cell (N SLN ), the travel time ( ⁇ ) for each streamline segment ( ⁇ m,n i,j,k ) in each grid-cell, the grid-cell indices and the total number of grid-cells traversed by all streamlines connecting an injection well with a production well.
  • N SLN the number of streamline segments traversing each grid-cell
  • ⁇ the travel time for each streamline segment in each grid-cell
  • the grid-cell indices the total number of grid-cells traversed by all streamlines connecting an injection well with a production well.
  • FIG. 6 the streamline travel time along its arc length within a given grid-cell of a 2D permeability model is illustrated.
  • the shortest/fastest streamline is identified for each production well (P m ) using the average streamline travel time in each grid-cell from step 108 and any well-known searching algorithm.
  • the shortest/fastest streamline is the streamline with the lowest sum of average streamline travel times ( ⁇ tilde over ( ⁇ ) ⁇ min ) in the grid-cells the streamline traverses between an injection well (I) and a production well (P m ).
  • step 124 an estimate of the fluid breakthrough time for each production well (P m ) is calculated by combining the streamline tracking data from step 106 with the FPS data from step 104 , which may be calculated using the following equation:
  • Table 2 lists the water invasion times calculated by the FPS algorithm the water breakthrough times (T B7 ) calculated using the proposed method in FIG. 1 and the uncertainty associated with result obtained by the proposed method in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 8 a block diagram illustrates one embodiment of a system for implementing the present invention on a computer.
  • the system includes a computing unit, sometimes referred to as a computing system, which contains memory, application programs, a client interface, a video interface, and a processing unit.
  • the computing unit is only one example of a suitable computing environment and is not intended to suggest any limitation as to the scope of use or functionality of the invention.
  • a client may enter commands and information into the computing unit through the client interface, which may be input devices such as a keyboard and pointing device, commonly referred to as a mouse, trackball or touch pad.
  • Input devices may include a microphone, joystick, satellite dish, scanner, or the like.

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