Analyzing Well Performance in Hydraulically Fractured Gas Wells: Non-Ideal Cases

Abstract

TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractTo facilitate timely solutions, practical gas-well performance analysis is based on ideal (simplifying) assumptions regarding the reservoir, completion and reliability of input data. Yet phenomena can exist in field situations that violate some of the ideal assumptions implicit within the analytic approaches. This paper investigates the impact of several known non-ideal cases on analytic solutions.