Laboratory experiments of well testing for fracture-cave carbonate gas reservoirs

Abstract

It is well known that the flowing of oil and gas in fracture and cave does not obey Darcy law, which makes it unable to interpret parameters correctly when doing well testing for those kinds of formation for having no flowing test used to correct corresponding flowing equations. Based on similarity criterion, a physical experimental method for gas flowing from cave to wellbore through fracture has been built up. The characteristics of fluid flowing in fracture and cave can be seen clearly according to log-log curves with the measured data, which was obtained from the experimental model test and dealt with Savitzky-Golay filtering method. In addition, a new mathematical model reflecting those transient-flow behaviors as well as its solution has been presented in this paper. Log-log curves obtained from our new model could reflect the characteristics of flowing in fracture and cave. The results showed that test experiments can reflect the influence of large-scaled cave and fracture on the flowing characteristics and the new model can be applied to explain parameters of fracture and cave for similar cases.

Keywords

Fractured-cave reservoir / Well testing / Mathematical model / Similarity criterion

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