Data Driven Gas Well Performance Model Hands Back Control to Engineers

Abstract

This paper presents a fit-for-purpose gas well performance model that utilizes a minimum set of inflow and outflow performance parameters, and demonstrates the use of this model to describe real-time well performance, to compare well performance over time and between wells, and to generate production forecasts in support of well interventions. The inflow and outflow parameters are directly related to well-known reservoir and well properties, and can be calibrated against common well surveillance and production data. By adopting this approach, engineers develop a better appreciation of the magnitude and uncertainty of gas well and reservoir performance parameters.