煤层渗透率的各向异性及其对多分支井的选编.doc

中国石油科学与工程88–89 (2012) 13–28 Article history: Received 2 June 2011 Accepted 2 April 2012 Available online 30 April 2012 Characteristic of anisotropic coal permeability and its impact on optimal design of multi-lateral well for coalbed methane production 煤层渗透率的各向异性Dong Chen Zhejun Pan Jishan Liu Luke D. Connell a School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, WA, 6009, Australia 西澳大学机械与化学工程学院b CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, VIC, 3169, Australia地球科学与资源工程， Coal permeability is usually anisotropic and the permeability anisotropy ratio along the face cleats to the butt cleats can be up to 17:1 for some coals. The characteristic of the anisotropic coal permeability and its impact on the optimal well design for coal bed methane (CBM) production are important, but have not been well studied. 煤的渗透性通常是具有各向异性的，一些煤沿面割理对端割理的渗透率各向异性比值可以高达17：1。煤层渗透率的各向异性This paper investigates this issue through numerical modeling and reservoir simulations. Various case studies are performed on the two commonly used multi-lateral well patterns including the quad lateral well and the pinnate lateral well to investigate the impact of permeability anisotropy ratio on the layout of the multi-lateral well. 本文通过数值模拟和油藏模拟对这个问题进行研究。为了研究多分支井的布局对渗透率各向异性比两种常用多模式四井和羽状井各种案例研究The results demonstrate that the optimal well direction of the quad-lateral well is parallel to the butt cleat direction as expected. However, the optimal main well angle of the pinnate lateral well is significantly affected by the permeability anisotropy ratio. 结果表明四分支井的最佳方向是平行于端割理方向的，这正如我们的预料。然而，羽状多分支井的最佳主井角侧向井显著受渗透率各向异性比的影响。 The orientations of the branches of the pinnate lateral well are less sensitive than the branch numbers and this indicates that more gas recovery efficiency can be effectively achieved by drilling more branches but not by varying the branch orientations. 羽状多分支井分支的方向没有分支数敏感，这说明我们可以通过钻多分支来有效的实现气体回收效率，而不是通过改变分支方向。 These conc