Comprehensive Analysis of Methods for Assessing the Bottomhole Zone of Wells Operating Complex Carbonate Reservoirs

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Assessing the hydrodynamic state of bottomhole zones is a key task to be solved when conducting and interpreting hydrodynamic well studies. The most widely used indicator of the condition of bottomhole zones in practice is the skin factor. However, its definition for the conditions of complex carbonate reservoirs is often accompanied by difficulties. Under conditions of incomplete pressure recovery, typical for the conditions under consideration, the value of the skin factor often takes on an unreliable value, in some cases leading to an incorrect interpretation of the state of the bottomhole zone, regardless of the approaches used to interpretation. Using actual data as an example, the article demonstrates that a reduction in the pressure recovery curve leads to false negative skin factor values both when implementing the tangent graph-analytical method and when processing in accordance with Bourdais's theory. In such conditions, it is recommended to use fundamentally different indicators of the state of the bottomhole zones, for example, a dimensionless diagnostic feature determined when implementing the method of deterministic moments of pressure. However, the lack of experience in the widespread practical application of this method necessitates an assessment of its reliability. For this purpose, this article uses an effective tool of mathematical statistics – multiple regression analysis, which, in this case, was reduced to the construction of multidimensional models of well flow rates. The geological and technological indicators of well operation were used as independent variables, including parameters characterizing the bottomhole formation zone (skin factor determined in the KAPPA Workstation software product (Saphir module), skin factor calculated using the tangent method, as well as a dimensionless diagnostic feature). According to the theory of regression analysis, the parameter that is included in the constructed model at the earliest possible step is reliable. The procedure for constructing and analyzing multidimensional statistical models performed in this work demonstrated the reliability of a dimensionless diagnostic feature in assessing the state of bottomhole zones of productive formations represented by complex carbonate reservoirs.

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carbonate reservoirbottomhole zoneskin factordimensionless diagnostic featurewell testingpressure recovery curvemethod of deterministic pressure momentstangent methodregression analysisstatistical analysismultivariate statistical model

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Published
31 October 2024
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31 October 2024
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Vol. 24, No. 4 (2024)
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