Fetkovich Decline Curves

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For a well entered in a closed circular reservoir a constant BHFP , the relationship between Fetkovich dimensionless decline rate function qDd and dimensionless decline time tDd is defined as:

\[q_{Dd} = q_D\left[ln \left(\frac{r_e}{r_{wa}}\right)-\frac{1}{2}\right] \] \[ t_{Dd} = \frac{t_D}{\frac{1}{2}\left[\left(\frac{r_e}{r_{wa}}\right)^2-1\right]\left[ln \left(\frac{r_e}{r_{wa}}\right)-\frac{1}{2}\right]}\] \[ r_{eD} = \frac{r_e}{r_{wa}}\] Dimensionless rate \(qD\) in function of dimensionless time \(tD\) can be approximate by (Edwardson et al., 1961):

\(t_D < 200\)

\[ q_D = \frac{26.7544 + 43.5537t_D^{0.5}+13.3813t_D+0.492949t_D^{1.5}}{47.421t_D^{0.5}+35.5372t_D+2.60967t_D^{1.5}}\] \(t_D \leq 200\)

\[ q_D = \frac{3.90086+2.02623t_D(ln \ t_D-1)}{t_D(ln\ t_D)^2}\]

Now, we can generate Fetkovich dimensionless flow rate \(q_{Dd}\) type curves

First, define \(t_{Dd}\) and \(r_{eD}\) range, in this case, 2000 \(t_{Dd}\) values and 8 \(r_{eD}\) values

library(emdbook)
library(reshape2)
library(dplyr)
library(plotly)

#Dimensionaless decline time
tDd <-  lseq(0.0001,10,2000)
#Dimensionless reservoir drainage radius 
reD <- c(10, 20, 50, 100, 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, 10^6)

We need to define \(t_D\) from \(t_{Dd}\) equation above, using sapply function we repeat the calculate with every \(r_{eD}\) value.

For \(q_D\), we define a functión qD.func(), using the aproximation and then calculate \(q_{Dd}\)

#Dimensionaless time 
tD <- sapply(reD,function(reD){
  tDd*(0.5*(reD^2-1)*(log(reD)-0.5)) 
})

#Dimensionaless rate
qD.func <- function(tD){
  ifelse(tD < 200,
         (26.7544+43.5537*tD^0.5+13.3818*tD+0.492949*tD^1.5)/
           (47.421*tD^0.5+35.5372*tD+2.60967*tD^1.5),
         (3.90086+2.02623*tD*(log(tD)-1))/(tD*(log(tD))^2))
}

qD <- qD.func(tD)

#Dimensionaless decline rate
qDd <- qD
for(i in 1:8){
  qDd[,i] <- qD[,i]*(log(reD[i])-0.5)
}

For plotting, generate a Dataframe using all the above values, with the function melt you can join several column in one define a common variable, in this case \(t_{Dd}\). Finally we plot \(q_{Dd}\) vs \(t_{Dd}\) for every \(r_{eD}\)

data.FET <- data.frame(tDd, qDd, exp(-tDd))
colnames(data.FET) <- c("TDd","10", "20", "50", "100", "10^3", "10^4", "10^5", 
                        "10^6", "e(-tDd)")

data.FET <- reshape2::melt(data.FET,id.vars=c("TDd"))

colnames(data.FET)<-c("TDd","reD", "qDd")

data.FET <- data.FET %>% 
  filter(qDd >= 0.01)

data.FET$qDd <- ifelse(data.FET$TDd > 0.13 & data.FET$reD != "e(-tDd)", 
                       NA, data.FET$qDd)

#Plot
plot_FET <- plot_ly() %>% 
  add_trace(x = data.FET$TDd , y = data.FET$qDd, color = data.FET$reD, 
            legendgroup = 'group1', mode = 'lines', text =data.FET$reD, 
            hovertemplate  = paste("reD: %{text}")) %>%
  layout(xaxis = list(title = "tDd", type = "log"), 
       yaxis = list(title = "qDd", type = "log"), 
       legend=list(title=list(text = "reD")))
  
plot_FET

Files

Reference Ahmed, T (2019) Reservoir Engineering Handbook. Fifth edition

Edwardson, M.J., Girner, H.M., Parkinson, H.R., Williams, C.D. and Matthews, C.S. (1962) Calculation of formation temperature disturbes caused by Mud Circulation, JPT