Stress Sensitivity of Low Permeable and Water-Bearing Gas Reservoir without Gas Slippage Effect

Abstract:

Because of the gas slippage, the testing methods of stress sensitivity for gas reservoir should be different from that for oil reservoir. This text adopts the method that imposing back pressure on the outlet of testing core to weaken the gas slippage effect and tests the stress sensitivity of low permeability gas reservoirs, then analyzes the influence of permeability and water saturation on stress sensitivity. The results show that: low permeable and water-bearing gas reservoirs have strong stress sensitivity; the testing permeability has the power function relationship with net stress, compared to the exponential function, the fitting correlation coefficient is larger and more suited to the actual; the lower the permeability is and the higher water saturation is, the stronger the stress sensitivity is. The production of gas well is affected when considering the stress sensitivity, so the pressure dropping rate should be reasonable when low permeable gas reservoirs are developed. The results provide theoretical references for analyzing the well production and numerical simulation.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 962-965)
• Pages: 570-573
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.962-965.570
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Jian Yan*, Xiao Bing Liang, Qian Wu, Qing Guo
• Keywords: Back Pressure, Low Permeable, Productivity of Gas Well, Stress Sensitivity, Water Saturation, Water-Bearing Gas Reservoirs

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