Enhancement of gas production from hydrate reservoir using a novel deployment of multilateral horizontal well

Guangrong Jin, Zheng Su, Haizhen Zhai, Chuangji Feng, Jie Liu, Yingyu Peng and Lihua Liu

Energy, 2023, vol. 270, issue C

Abstract: Most marine hydrates deposit in low permeable argillaceous sediments. However, the gas production rate of current field trials for hydrate reservoir is lower than the commercial criterion. To enhance gas production, a novel multilateral horizontal well was numerically investigated based on an unconfined hydrate reservoir in the Shenhu Area in the South China Sea. The investigation shows the novel deployment enhances gas production rate due to the enlarged dissociation region and a great quantity of stimulated hydrates. The release rate of gas from hydrate exceeds the production rate, 70% of produced gas is gaseous methane and water-to-gas ratio is favorable. For various factors, increasing the length and the number of lateral well significantly enhances the gas and water production rates, which raises about 30% with additional 100 m lateral well. The lateral well deployed in the middle of reservoir causes a high gas rate and low water rate, and the angle of the main and lateral wellbores (ANGMW&LW) slightly affects the gas production. The sequence of factor of the deployment on gas production herein is: well length, depth, spacing, ANGMW&LW. The commercial gas rate could be achieved with 22 groups of 1000 m length multilateral well.

Keywords: Natural gas hydrate; Multilateral horizontal well; Enhanced gas production; Depressurization; Effectiveness; South China Sea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.126867

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