dc.contributor.advisor | Devegowda, Deepak | |
dc.contributor.author | Goodluck, Nosirat | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-28T19:09:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-28T19:09:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-12 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/49568 | |
dc.description.abstract | The focus of this research is to calculate the Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) of shale wells for a diverse range of fluid types using Carter (1985) type curves. The Carter (1985) type curve is a plot of flow rate versus time in dimensionless form and originally developed for dry gas and under-saturated black oil reservoirs. One of the key advantages of the Carter (1985) type curves is that it accounts for different flow regimes such as transient, infinite-acting flow and boundary-dominated flow as well as fluid properties such as viscosity and compressibility. However, because it relies on the use of well-defined and pressure-sensitive fluid properties such as viscosity and compressibility, the Carter (1985) type curves cannot easily generalized to multiphase flow or flow of more complex fluid types.
In this thesis, I extend the use of Carter (1985) type curves to wet gas, gas-condensate and volatile oil reservoirs for flow above and below their respective saturation pressures. This is achieved by determining an effective viscosity-compressibility product that can be used in the Carter (1985) type curves. This viscosity-compressibility product is then correlated against fluid C7+ fractions so that the practicing reservoir engineer can easily look-up the appropriate viscosity-compressibility product values for use in EUR calculations using Carter (1985) type curves. | en_US |
dc.language | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Decline Curve Analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Arps Equation | en_US |
dc.subject | Estimated Oil Recovery Reservoir Evaluation | en_US |
dc.subject | Fetkovich and Carter Type Curves | en_US |
dc.title | CALCULATION OF ESTIMATED OIL RECOVERY USING CARTER TYPE CURVES | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Civan, Faruk | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Rai, Chandra | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fahs, Mashhad | |
dc.date.manuscript | 2017-01-27 | |
dc.thesis.degree | Master of Science | en_US |
ou.group | Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy::Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering | en_US |
shareok.orcid | 0000-0001-6204-8358 | en_US |