LIU Wenfeng, ZHANG Xuyang, SHENG Shuyao, et al. Research on a new combination method of production decline analysis for tight oil: Cases study of Mahu tight reservoir[J]. Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development, 2021, 11(6): 911-916.DOI:
In the tight reservoir like mahu with strong heterogeneity
large differences in the productivity of oil wells and obvious differences in the decline characteristics
the production decline analysis and prediction have important guiding significance to the management of oil well production system and the preparation and optimization of oil field development plan
and are also an important part of reservoir performance analysis. However
the traditional empirical decline models used today
such as the Arps production decline model
power law exponential decline model
Valkó extended exponential decline model
and Duong decline model
have different applicability. When using these methods to fit the production data of the fractured horizontal wells in the Mahu tight reservoir
the accuracy of the fitted results is low. Therefore
a new method of combination that uses different models for fitting in stages based on the model fitting results of Mahu oil wells in different stages is explored
and the examples are applied to verify it in this block. The research results show that this new method has lower error rate and higher degree of agreement than the traditional ones. In addition
by using this method
the prediction results of Estimated Ultimate Recovery(EUR) for the tight oil wells in Mahu reservoir are more accurate
and the method is highly feasible
which can be used as a reference for the research on the production decline law and the productivity prediction of other similar tight oil reservoirs.