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Prediction of Flowing Bottomhole Pressures for Two-Phase Coalbed Methane Wells
Authors:, LIU Xinfu
Institution:Technology Research Center, CNOOC Research Institute, Beijing 100027, China
Abstract:A method is proposed to predict the flowing bottomhole pressures (FBHPs) for two‐phase coalbed methane (CBM) wells. The mathematical models for both gas column pressure and two‐phase fluid column pressure were developed based on the well liquid flow equation. FBHPs during the production were predicted by considering the effect of entrained liquid on gravitational gradients. Comparison of calculated BHPs by Cullender‐Smith and proposed method was also studied. The results show that the proposed algorithm gives the desired accuracy of calculating BHPs in the low‐productivity and low‐pressure CBM wells. FBHP is resulted from the combined action of wellhead pressure, gas column pressure and fluid column pressure. Variation of kinetic energy term, compressibility and friction factors with depth increments and liquid holdup with velocity should be considered to simulate the real BHPs adequately. BHP is a function of depth of each column segment. The small errors of less than 1.5% between the calculated and measured values are obtained with each segment within 25 m. Adjusting BHPs can effectively increase production pressure drop, which is beneficial to CBM desorption and enhances reservoir productivity. The increment of pressure drop from 5.37 MPa2 to 8.66 MPa2 leads to an increase of CBM production from 3270 m3/d to 6700 m3/d and is attributed to a decrease in BHP from 2.25 MPa to 1.33 MPa.
Keywords:coalbed methane productivity  flowing bottomhole pressure  gas column pressure  two-phase fluid column pressure
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