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Predicting the Performance of Undeveloped Multi-Fractured Marcellus Gas Wells Using an Analytical Flow-Cell Model (FCM)

David Waters and Ruud Weijermars
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David Waters: Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Ruud Weijermars: Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-42

Abstract: The objective of the present study is to predict how changes in the fracture treatment design parameters will affect the production performance of new gas wells in a target zone of the Marcellus shale. A recently developed analytical flow-cell model can estimate future production for new wells with different completion designs. The flow-cell model predictions were benchmarked using historic data of 11 wells and 6 different completion designs. First, a type well was generated and used with the flow-cell model to predict the performance of the later infill wells—with variable completion designs—based off the performance of earlier wells. The flow-cell model takes into account known hyperbolic forecast parameters ( q i , D i , and b -factor) and fracture parameters (height, half-length, and spacing) of a type well. Next, the flow-cell model generates the hyperbolic decline parameters for an offset well based on the selected changes in the fracture treatment design parameters. Using a numerical simulator, the flow-cell model was verified as an accurate modeling technique for forecasting the production performance of horizontal, multi-fractured, gas wells.

Keywords: flow-cell model; proved undeveloped gas reserves; physics-based DCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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