Special Oil & Gas Reservoirs ›› 2024, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 143-149.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-6535.2024.03.019

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Optimized Proration Plan Based on Stable Production in Luojiazhai High-sulfur Gas Reservoir

Lan Yunxia, Jia Changqing, Liao Huawei, Zhang Junliang, Xue Jiangtang, Zhang Qiang, Li Xiang   

  1. PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gas field Company, Dazhou, Sichuan 636450, China
  • Received:2022-11-04 Revised:2024-04-05 Online:2024-06-25 Published:2024-07-26

Abstract: The gathering system of Luojiazhai high-sulfur gas reservoir is affected by sulfur accumulation, the interlock alarm is frequently triggered by the gas well pressure after the secondary throttling. To avoid the interlocking shut-in, the production can only be maintained by means of pressure reduction. By analyzing the relationship between average daily gas production and sulfur accumulation of single well during the phase, it is found that as the ratio of gas production per well increased, the sulfur accumulation also shows an increasing trend. In order to extend the continuous production cycle of single well and reduce the sulfur accumulation and its impact on the gathering system, the traditional production proration method currently used can no longer meet the production requirements. To obtain the optimal stable production period of gas reservoirs, this paper starts from various factors affecting production proration of single well, and establishes a nonlinear mathematical model with the optimal stable production period as the objective function through node analysis. Taking into account constraints such as gas well productivity, critical sulfur-carrying production, maximum production limit of safety valve after throttling, and maximum production corresponding to interlocking pressure after secondary throttling, the single well production proration corresponding to the optimal stable production period is obtained by iterative computation based on differential calculus. According to the optimal production proration plan, production adjustments were made to 6 production wells. After the secondary throttling, the average pressure drop of single wells is about 0.3 MPa, the average stable production days increased from 106 d to 201d, and the sulfur accumulation in gathering system decreased by 121 kg. The method effectively guides the production of gas wells and also provides reference significance for optimizing production allocation in similar gas fields.

Key words: high sulfur gas reservoir, sulfur accumulation, nodal analysis, nonlinear optimization, production proration of single well

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