• This is aquick Power point to indicate the

effect of Fracture half length , pwf, skin

on flow regimes of gas unconventional
reservoirs
• We will use GASSIM updated by DR:Mazher to
perform asimulation cases till certain time
say(312 days)
• Using the output data of GASSIM as an input data
to Shale linear model to perform RTA
• Comparing the output data of Shale linear with
the input data of GASSIM
• Then running GASSIM for long time then
comparing the output with the forcasting
obtained from Shale linear
 Studying the effect of fracture spacing on the
flow regimes of shale unconventional reservoirs
• In this study we will investigate the effect of changing
the fracture spacing on the flow regimes through gas
unconventional reservoirs
𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔ℎ𝑡
• Fracture spacing =
𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠
• So we will investigate the effect of changing the
number of stages of constant well length
• Performing the complete simulation cases
using GASSIM and comparing these simulated
cases with the forecasted data obtained by
Shale linear model
• Performing a match between these cases and
recording the notes
• Then studing the effect of changing fracture
spacing of whole simulated cases
• We can see that for small number of stages
(large fracture spacing ) agood match is obtained
during early and late time regions but for large
number of stages (small fracture spacing ) the
predicted cases and simulated cases poorly
match each other in late time this can be
interpreted due to change in gas prosperities
during late time region due to rapid depletion
and small drainage area for each fracture casues
change in gas properities be significant
• Increasing the number of stages (reducing
fracture spacing ) causes an increase in initial
gas production but rapid depletion occurs and
reservoir reaches the boundary dominated
flow earlier .In other words decreasing the
number of stages reducing the initial
production but linear flow regimes remains
for longer time in comparison with large
number of stages
The Effect of changing PWF
• Increasing Pwf will cause acrosponding
decrease in production rate but the most
important note is the seperation between the
parllel curves is decresed with decreasing Pwf
• Which can be interpreted according to the
change in m(p) i.e the change is nearly small
for pressure more than 2000 psi
The effect of skin
• We can see that as the skin increseas the
linear flow is gradually decreased and the
curve become more flat and bilinear flow with
forth slope is be obvious till only pseudo radial
at high skin appear and reservoir depletion
process will take more time
• Further interpretation will be made