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Go to Editorial ManagerThis paper presented experimental and numerical studies to investigate pressure drop in perforation horizontal wellbore with a 90° phasing and 20 spm perforation density. The experimental apparatus has been constructed to calculate the static pressure drop and calculate the exit velocity in the horizontal pipe after mixing the axial flow with the radial flow through the perforations in the wellbore. The specifications of the wellbore used were the inner diameter is 44 mm, length is 2 m, and perforation diameter is 4 mm. For this objective, a simulation model was created in the wellbore using the ANSYS Fluent simulation software by using the standard k-ε model and applied to the (CFD) by changing the axial flow from (40-160) lit/min and constant inflow through perforations from range (0 - 80) lit/min. According to the study's findings, the increase in the radial flow through the perforations increases the total flow rate ratio and the total pressure drop and vice versa. In addition, an increase in the axial flow mixed with radial flow increases the total pressure drop, friction factor, and a decrease in productivity index. Furthermore, the percentage error of the total pressure drop between the numerical and experimental results in test 4 is about 3.83 %. It was found that the numerical and experimental results represented a good agreement about the study of the flow-through perforations at 90° angle in terms of pressure drop and productivity index, etc.
This paper presents a pressure drop analysis in perforated vertical wellbores for different perforation parameters. The effect of the density of the perforations (number of perforation), the phase angle of the perforations, the diameter of the perforation and the flow rate of the crude oil from the perforations on the pressure drop and the productivity index of the perforated vertical wellbores were studied. The analysis of the vertical wellbore was performed numerically using ANSYS FLUENT 15.0 software. Three dimensional, steady-states, turbulent and incompressible fluid flow is assumed during the numerical solution of the governing equations. The results of this study show that, increased perforation density of the perforated vertical wellbore caused an increase in pressure drop, and also, decreased productivity index due to increasing the friction losses. Friction pressure drop has a significant effect on crude oil flow into the wellbore. When the main velocity is 1.5 m/s and the inlet velocity from the perforations is 2 m/s, the friction pressure drop is about 66 % and the acceleration pressure is approximately 34 % of the total pressure drop.
This paper demonstrates experimental and numerical studies to investigate in perforation pipes with a phasing 180° and perforation densities 9 spm in a horizontal wellbore. The experimental study was conducted to investigate the phasing angle 180° in a horizontal wellbore. The wellbore has an inner diameter of 44 mm, as well as the length of the pipe is 2 m. For this purpose, a simulation model was created in the wellbore using the ANSYS FLUENT simulation software by using the standard k - e model and applied to the (CFD) with changing the axial flow from (40 - 160) lit/min and constant inflow through perforations from range (20 - 80) lit/min. Concerning the findings of this study, it was noticed that the total pressure drop (friction, acceleration, mixing) goes high as the total flow rate ratio increases. As well as, an increase of the inflow concerning the main flow rate ratio leads to an increase in the total pressure drop and a decrease in the productivity index. Furthermore, the percentage error of the total pressure drop between the numerical and experimental results in test 4 is about 5.4 %. Also, the average velocity goes high with increasing the total flow rates and the velocity keeps increasing along the length of the pipe until it reaches its maximum value at the end of the pipe due to the effect of the perforations. It was concluded that there are the numerical and experimental results reflected a good agreement concerning the study of the flow-through perforations at 180° angle in terms of pressure drop and apparent friction factor, etc.
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 .