Title
Modeling condensate banking in lean gas condensate reservoirs
Date Issued
13 August 2012
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Repsol
Repsol
Publisher(s)
OnePetro
Abstract
Gas condensate reservoirs show a complex behavior when they are produced below dew point pressure under isothermal conditions, due to the presence of a two-phase system, and the appearance of a condensate banking phenomena. Recent gas condensate field discoveries in Peru exhibited initial reservoir pressures slightly higher than dew point; as PVT reports indicated that retrograde liquid saturation would not exceed 4%, condensate drop-out was not presumed to be a significant problem affecting well productivity and production performance, and indeed, strategies to face this problem have been currently delayed Initial multirate tests run in the Peruvian gas condensate fields did show only a slightly indication of liquid drop-out in NIA formation (less than 5%), but some features of the existence of condensate banking were noticed in NOI and ENE reservoirs. As a consequence, it is worth to study the condensate drop-out phenomena as in many cases, it causes a permanent reduction in well productivity, and eventually, in recovery factor, even though is partially compensated by capillary number effects. An integrated approach to model the condensate banking phenomena at well and fullfield scales, over the time, in Peruvian gas condensate fields is proposed by the combination of two powerful tools: well testing analysis and numerical compositional simulation; while the transient testing analysis, supported by a deconvolution algorithm, is used to evaluate "snapshots" of the three or four regions representing the various mobility zones around the wellbore, the compositional simulation allows predicting how the condensate banking will evolve in the future, and how this phenomena will affect production performance. Preliminary results predict a reduction of gas and oil production and recovery between 3% and 5%. Copyright 2012, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Start page
1132
End page
1146
Volume
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84864651360
Resource of which it is part
SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings
ISBN of the container
978-162276046-6
Conference
SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference 2012, LACPEC 2012 16 April 2012 through 18 April 2012
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus