DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS FOR COMPOSITE RESERVOIRS

M. ISSAKA A. AMBASTHA

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THE PETROLEUM SOCIETY PAPER 96-15 Decline Curve Analysis for Composite Reservoirs M. Issaka Fekete Associates Inc.
A. Ambastha University of Alberta This paper is to be presented at the 47th Annual Technical Meeting of The Petroleum Society in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 10 - 12, 1996. Discussion of this paper is invited and may be presented at the meeting if filed in writing with the technical program chairman prior to the conclusion of the meeting. This paper and any discussion filed
will be considered for publication in CIM journals. Publication rights are reserved. This is a pre-print and is subject to correction. ABSTRACT comparison of production rate and cumulative production responses for the various composite reservoirs. A detailed Analysis of production decline curves
presents a useful investigation of the effects of mobility and storativity ratios, tool in forecasting the future production from a well or and also, the reservoir size on the production rate and reservoir. A knowledge of the future production is an cumulative production responses from radial and linear, important factor in the economic analysis of exploration and composite reservoirs is presented.
production expenditures. Decline curve analysis can be used to estimate the production performance of a stimulated well Results from this study show that the mobility-storativity due to acidizing. A comparison of the production decline Product, MF, is not a correlating parameter for transient rate before and after acid treatment will enable a determination of and cumulative production responses from finite, linear,
the technical and economic success of the treatment. composite reservoirs, unlike the case for infinitely large, linear, composite reservoirs. Some type curves for decline Decline curve analysis for homogeneous reservoirs has curve analysis of radial and linear composite reservoirs are been discussed extensively in the literature. However, the presented.
conventional homogeneous decline type curves are not appropriate for composite reservoirs. While production INTRODUCTION decline curves for radial, composite reservoirs have been presented, the same is not the case for composite reservoirs Analysis of production decline curves presents a useful in elliptical, linear and spherical flow geometrics, tool in forecasting the future production
from a well or reservoir. A knowledge of the future production is an This study presents a comparisons of the production important factor in the economic analysis of exploration and performances of two-region, composite reservoirs in radial, production expenditures. Decline curve analysis can be used elliptical, linear and spherical flow
geometrics. Transient to estimate the production performance of a stimulated well rate and cumulative production responses for both infinite due to acidizing. A comparison of the production decline and closed, finite reservoirs for the various flow geometries curves before and after acid treatment will enable a are discussed. Normalizing factors are presented to enable