Optimum Design of Coalbed Methane Reservoir Development Strategies through Numerical Simulation

Abstract:

The research on the development strategies of conventional gas field is quite mature both in and abroad, but less attention has been paid on development strategies of coalbed methane reservoirs. This paper elaborates the remarkable dissimilarities of development strategies between coalbed and conventional gas, including commingled development design, reasonable dewatering rate and well pattern design. Eventually, Liulin area, in Hedong coal field located in Shanxi Province, China, was taken as an example to conduct optimum design of development strategies by numerical simulation software. All the aspects mentioned above can provide guidance to China’s CBM development.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 402)
• Pages: 854-859
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.402.854
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Jin Shi, Xiao Dong Wu, Yong Sheng An, Li Peng Wang, Yu Yuan
• Keywords: Coalbed Methane (CBM), Commingled Production Strategies, Development Strategy, Dewatering Rate, Well Pattern Design

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