Determination of In-situ Two-Phase Flow Properties through Downhole Fluid Movement Monitoring

Kuchuk, Fikri J.; Zhan, Lang; Ma, Mark; Al-Shahri, Ali; Ramakrishnan, T.S.; Altundas, Bilgin; Zeybek, Murat; Loubens, Romain de; Chugunov, Nikita

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“…Temperature log (5) is the oldest logging techniques. The original purpose of this survey is to allocate hydrocarbon zones from non-productive interval.…”

Section: Temperature Logging Surveymentioning

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An Integrated Approach for Downhole Leak Detection

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Effective well integrity practices ensure the protection of people, facilities and the environment from the risk of uncontrolled release of formation fluids throughout the life cycle of a well, so petroleum engineers are always required to ensure well integrity. Part of well integrity is to make sure downhole equipment and barriers are in excellent condition. Identifying the downhole leak source of pressure communication between tubingcasing and casing-casing annuli in any well is a huge challenge for petroleum engineers. Detecting any leak at the early stage is an important key to well integrity management. Two objectives were set in this paper as follows: The first objective is to develop a method that can detect downhole leaks by utilizing only rigless data based on full interpretation and evaluation of different logs in the field: temperature, noise, and corrosion log in different scenarios. The first scenario is shut-in condition while the second scenario is in flowing condition. The flowing condition will be either after bleeding off Tubing-Casing-Annulus or Casing-Casing-Annulus. This approach was implemented in a specific operation order to ensure job success. Also, the corrosion log was run to evaluate the condition of tubing and casing separately. The second objective of this study is to compare rigless approach results with the conventional rig approach for downhole leak detection, which will be completed by statistically analyzing corrosion, temperature, and noise surveys. Moreover, guidelines were set in each step of these surveys to confirm leak occurrence. This objective was achieved through developing a method and program for leak detection. Based on the conducted temperature, noise, and corrosion surveys, the integrated approach identified the leakage zones through the developed module in this report. The obtained results from the rigless approach were almost similar to the rig approach. The only difference between both approaches is that the developed method is more accurate, compared to the rig approach, since it can identify any corrosion or leak depth, while the rig approach will identify only leak zones. The paper will discuss in details the development of this method and its successful implementation in a few selected offshore wells in the same field of the Arabian Gulf.

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“…Temperature log (5) is the oldest logging techniques. The original purpose of this survey is to allocate hydrocarbon zones from non-productive interval.…”

Section: Temperature Logging Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Integrated Approach for Downhole Leak Detection

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In situ estimation of relative permeability from resistivity measurements

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Relative permeability is one of the key parameters governing fluid flow through porous media. Determination of relative permeability is traditionally conducted in the laboratory using either recombined reservoir oil or laboratory oil at simulated reservoir conditions, or simply at laboratory conditions. This is because it is expensive to sample representative uncontaminated reservoir fluids and extremely difficult to cut reservoir cores without altering their surface properties. Restoring rock properties to their original reservoir conditions has been a technical challenge to the industry. Upscaling laboratory special core-analysis data to reservoir scale is also a concern. Consequently, the industry has been researching new methods to extract relative permeability in situ , including the utilization of specially designed permanent downhole electric resistivity array, pressure and flow rate measurements. In this study, a different approach was taken. A semi-analytical model, developed to infer relative permeability from resistivity, was verified using experimental and field data. Relative permeability and resistivity were measured simultaneously in the laboratory. The results demonstrated that relative permeability derived from measured resistivity was close to the measured relative permeability. Relative permeability calculated from resistivity logs in two wells was compared to measured relative permeability with encouraging results.

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Estimating petrophysical parameters and average mud-filtrate invasion rates using joint inversion of induction logging and pressure transient data

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We introduce an inversion approach for determining the water-based mud-filtrate invasion profile, as well as the formation porosity and horizontal permeability, from the induction logging data. The inversion is constrained by a multiphase fluid flow simulator that simulates the mud-filtrate invasion process to obtain the spatial distributions of the water saturation and the salt concentration, which are in turn transformed into the formation resistivity using a resistivity-saturation formula. By ignoring the diffusion effect, we assume that the mud-filtrate invasion process is mainly convective so that it can be equivalently simulated by providing an average invasion rate and the duration of invasion. The average invasion rate can be directly inverted from the fluid-flow-constrained inversion of induction logging data. We also obtain the mud-filtrate invasion profile, which is consistent with the fluid flow physics. The reconstructed mud-filtrate invasion profile benefits the interpretation of the formation test. When the pressure transient data are available, this approach can be also used to jointly invert both induction logging data and pressure transient data to obtain the mud-filtrate invasion profile, as well as a parametric distribution of the TI-anisotropic formation permeability and porosity. Assuming a vertical well penetrating horizontal formations, the fluid flow problem is solved using an implicit black oil finite-difference simulator with brine tracking option based on a cylindrical, axially symmetric grid, whereas the response of the induction logging tool is simulated using a frequency-domain finite-difference solver based on a Cartesian grid. A Gauss-Newton inversion scheme using the multiplicative regularization technique is used for either the fluid-flow-constrained inversion or the joint inversion. The reliability of the inversion results depends on the accuracy of a priori knowledge of the reservoir, which needs to be confirmed via sensitivity analysis.

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Determination of In-situ Two-Phase Flow Properties through Downhole Fluid Movement Monitoring

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

An Integrated Approach for Downhole Leak Detection

An Integrated Approach for Downhole Leak Detection

In situ estimation of relative permeability from resistivity measurements

Estimating petrophysical parameters and average mud-filtrate invasion rates using joint inversion of induction logging and pressure transient data

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