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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2019)

Published: March 31, 2019

Pages: 12-16

Original Article

Hydrodynamics Behaviour of Single and Multi Fracture with Different Orientations in Petroleum Reservoir

Amani Jalil Al-Husseini 1 Falah A. Abood 2 Ahmed K. Alshara 3
1 Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Basra
2 Mechanical Engineering Department University of Basra
3 Civil Engineering Department University of Misan
History
  • Received: December 31, 2018
  • Available Online: March 31, 2019
DOI

https://doi.org/10.33971/bjes.19.1.2

Abstract

The studying of fluid flow throughout fracture in the reservoir is one of the most vital subjects attracted much attention from engineers and geologists. In the present paper, the Dual Porosity-Dual Permeability (DPDP) model has been applied to represent the fluid flow within the fractured reservoirs. This work aimed to demonstrate the utility of the fractures in the petroleum reservoir and how could be used the positive effect of these fractures on the productivity as well. The productivity of single-phase fluid flow within the single horizontal fracture, multi horizontal fractures, and inclined fracture with different orientations (20 o , 30 o , 45 o , and 70 o ) have been implemented by using ANSYS- CFX program and compared with the productivity of conventional (without fractures) reservoirs. In addition to, visualize the velocity streamlines within fracture and matrix zones for the DPDP model. To verify this work the comparison has been made with published paper, which studies the fluid flow through fractures, and a good agreement has been obtained with each other. The study indicates that the presence of macro scale fractures in petroleum reservoirs contributes to increasing the total productivity of these reservoirs. Clearly, the productivity index of multi-horizontal fractures domain is more than twice of nonfractured domain. It is also clear that, when comparing the fractured and nonfractured reservoir, the improvement percentage of the productivity index reaches to (71.8) for a single horizontal fracture with 9 ft length. While this percentage would be about (116.88) if the fracture is inclined with 20 o .

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