Reservoir Evaluation and Development ›› 2019, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (6): 78-84.

• Non-conventional Reservoir • Previous Articles    

Optimization of fracture layout of fractured horizontal well in multi-well pad mode of shale gas reservoirs

Yonggang DUAN,Tailai ZHANG,Mingqiang WEI,Keyi REN,Tong ZHOU,Zijian WU   

  1. School of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Southwest University of Petroleum, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
  • Received:2019-04-01 Online:2019-12-30 Published:2019-12-26

Abstract:

Compared with the single well development mode of the conventional gas reservoirs, multi-well pad technology has several advantages such as great improvement of operating efficiency and reduction of project cost. Strong interference between the wells and between the fractures exist in small well spacing and network fracturing mode of multi-well pad for shale reservoir, which affect the overall development effect of the well group. Based on the unstructured PEBI grid technology, its simulator for fracturing horizontal wells is developed independently. According to the results of microseismic monitoring, the stimulated reservoir volume(SRV) area formed by the network fracturing of horizontal well groups are assumed to be ovals. Considering the adsorption, desorption, diffusion and nonlinear seepage mechanisms of shale gas, the numerical simulation model of the fracturing horizontal well group in the multi-well pad mode is established by the finite element method. The difference between the cumulative production of the single well and the well group is compared, and the influence of the layout mode of the fractures and the horizontal wells on the cumulative production in homogeneous shale gas reservoirs are discussed. The results show that the inter-well seepage interference makes the cumulative production of the well group lower than the sum of that of a single well. U-shape layout mode of the fractures for single well can reduce the interference to a certain extent, which make the cumulative production of the well group superior to that of the uniform mode and the inverted U-shape mode. The cumulative production of cross distribution of horizontal wells is better than that of parallel mode.

Key words: shale gas, multi-well pad, fractured horizontal well, production, optimization

CLC Number: 

  • TE37