Fluid dynamics & materials processing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
20(6), P. 1365 - 1379
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Following
large-scale
volume
fracturing
in
shale
oil
reservoirs,
well
shut-in
measures
are
generally
employed.Laboratory
tests
and
field
trials
have
underscored
the
efficacy
of
fluid
imbibition
during
phase
augmenting
productivity.Unlike
conventional
reservoirs
exhibit
characteristics
such
as
low
porosity,
permeability,
rich
content
organic
matter
clay
minerals.Notably,
osmotic
pressure
effects
occurring
between
high-salinity
formation
water
low-salinity
fluids
significant.The
current
understanding
mobilization
patterns
crude
micro-pores
process
remains
nebulous,
mechanisms
underpinning
not
fully
understood.This
study
introduces
a
theoretical
approach,
by
which
salt
ion
migration
control
equation
is
derived
mathematical
model
for
spontaneous
introduced,
able
to
account
both
capillary
pressures.Results
indicate
that
fluids,
facilitate
external
into
pores,
thereby
complementing
forces
displacing
oil.When
considering
pressures,
calculated
depth
increases
12%
compared
case
where
only
present.The
salinity
difference
reservoir
significantly
influences
depth.Calculations
shutin
reveal
matrix
fractures
reaches
dynamic
equilibrium
after
28
days
shut-in.During
production
phase,
maximum
seepage
distance
target
block
approximately
6.02
m.
SPE Journal,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 16
Published: May 1, 2025
Summary
The
reservoirs
of
shale
gas
are
typified
by
their
low
porosity
and
permeability,
which
generally
necessitates
the
implementation
large-scale
hydraulic
fracturing
for
economic
development,
thereby
resulting
in
highly
complex
flow
mechanisms.
Well
test
analysis
is
an
effective
method
reservoir
parameter
inversion,
aids
efficient
development
gas.
However,
there
currently
a
lack
accurate
well
model
reservoirs.
To
address
this
issue,
study
proposes
numerical
fractured
that
incorporates
various
mechanisms,
including
adsorption/desorption,
diffusion,
stress
sensitivity,
fracture
closure,
non-Darcy
flow.
First,
transient
transmissibility
correction
factor
introduced
to
account
geometries
early-time
effects,
enhancing
accuracy.
Subsequently,
couples
transport
equations
with
geomechanical
effects
Langmuir
isothermal
adsorption,
solved
using
finite
volume
combined
Newton-Raphson
iteration.
subsequent
step
involves
validation
model’s
This
achieved
comparing
results
those
derived
from
standard
software
package.
Sensitivity
analyses
further
reveal
natural
fractures
reduce
pressure
loss
fluid
supply,
while
adsorption
delays
decline
at
later
stages;
additionally,
sensitivity
closure
intensify
drop,
particularly
soft
shales.
Moreover,
identifies
eight
stages,
wellbore
storage
skin
effect,
bilinear
flow,
linear
desorption,
interfracture
interference,
transitional
boundary-dominated
Finally,
field
case
Longmaxi
Formation
successfully
matches
production
data,
yielding
inverted
parameters
such
as
matrix
permeability
conductivity.
Overall,
work
provides
powerful
tool
capable
evaluating
fractures,
optimizing
interpreting
data.
SPE Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
29(04), P. 2026 - 2043
Published: Dec. 13, 2023
Summary
Surrogate
models
play
a
vital
role
in
reducing
computational
complexity
and
time
burden
for
reservoir
simulations.
However,
traditional
surrogate
suffer
from
limitations
autonomous
temporal
information
learning
restrictions
generalization
potential,
which
is
due
to
lack
of
integration
with
physical
knowledge.
In
response
these
challenges,
physics-informed
spatial-temporal
neural
network
(PI-STNN)
proposed
this
work,
incorporates
flow
theory
into
the
loss
function
uniquely
integrates
deep
convolutional
encoder-decoder
(DCED)
long
short-term
memory
(ConvLSTM)
network.
To
demonstrate
robustness
capabilities
PI-STNN
model,
its
performance
was
compared
against
both
purely
data-driven
model
same
architecture
renowned
Fourier
operator
(FNO)
comprehensive
analysis.
Besides,
by
adopting
transfer
strategy,
trained
adapted
fractured
fields
investigate
impact
natural
fractures
on
prediction
accuracy.
The
results
indicate
that
not
only
excels
comparison
but
also
demonstrates
competitive
edge
over
FNO
simulation.
Especially
strongly
heterogeneous
fractures,
can
still
maintain
high
Building
accuracy,
further
offers
distinct
advantage
efficiently
performing
uncertainty
quantification,
enabling
rapid
analysis
investment
decisions
oil
gas
development.
Petroleum Science and Technology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 23
Published: July 1, 2024
Prediction
of
fluid
production
from
hydraulically
fractured
wells
is
often
difficult
due
to
the
incomplete
understanding
mechanism
and
limited
availability
data.
In
this
paper,
we
propose
a
prediction
model
(MTL-Bi-LSTM-CNN)
predict
in
all
layers
based
on
convolutional
neural
network
(CNN),
bidirectional
long
short-term
memory
(Bi-LSTM)
multi-task
learning
(MTL).
The
integrates
fracturing
parameters
with
data
various
each
well.
It
harnesses
both
forward
backward
bi-directional
information
multiple
layered
capture
intrinsic
dependencies
features,
enhancing
accuracy
prediction.
results
demonstrate
that
stratified
using
proposed
paper
has
higher
smaller
error
than
single-well
unstratified
Consequently,
approach
significantly
improves
accuracy,
robustness,
versatility
predicting
moisture
content
wells.
Fluid dynamics & materials processing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
20(5), P. 1147 - 1163
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Class
III
tight
oil
reservoirs
have
low
porosity
and
permeability,
which
are
often
responsible
for
production
rates
limited
recovery.Extensive
repeated
fracturing
is
a
well-known
technique
to
fix
some
of
these
issues.With
such
methods,
existing
fractures
refractured,
and/or
new
created
facilitate
communication
with
natural
fractures.This
study
explored
how
different
refracturing
methods
affect
horizontal
well
fracture
networks,
special
focus
on
morphology
related
fluid
flow
changes.In
particular,
the
relied
unconventional
model
(UFM).The
evolution
field
after
initial
were
analyzed
accordingly.The
simulation
results
indicated
that
increased
formation
energy
reduced
reservoir
stress
differences
can
promote
expansion.It
was
shown
length
network,
width
complexity
be
improved,
drainage
area
increased,
distance
gas
seepage
reduced,
single
significantly
increased.