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Dongying Wang

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Jun Yao

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Mingyu Cai

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Piyang Liu

TRANSIENT PRESSURE AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS IN CARBONATE GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS WITH CHANGING EXTERNAL BOUNDARY FLUX

ABSTRACT
In this paper, a triple-medium flow model for carbonate geothermal reservoirs with an exponential external boundary flux is established. The pressure solution under constant production conditions in Laplace space is solved. The geothermal wellbore pressure change considering wellbore storage and skin factor is obtained by Stehfest numerical inversion. The well test interpretation charts and Fetkovich production decline chart for carbonate geothermal reservoirs are proposed for the first time. The proposed Fetkovich production decline curves are applied to analyze the production decline behavior. The results indicate that in carbonate geothermal reservoirs with exponential external boundary flux, the pressure derivative curve contains a triple dip, which represents the interporosity flow between the vugs or matrix and fracture system and the invading flow of the external boundary flux. The interporosity flow of carbonate geothermal reservoirs and changing external boundary flux can both slow down the extent of production decline and the same variation tendency is observed in the Fetkovich production decline curve.
KEYWORDS
carbonate geothermal reservoir, changing external boundary flux, triple-medium, well test interpretation chart, Fetkovich production decline
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2017-03-10
PAPER REVISED: 2017-05-01
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2017-05-18
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2017-12-02
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI17S1177W
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2017, VOLUME 21, ISSUE Supplement 1, PAGES [S177 - S184]
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Transient pressure and productivity analysis in carbonate geothermal reservoirs with changing external boundary flux

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