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Creating Value With Permanent Downhole Gauges in Tight Gas Appraisal Wells

Downhole instrumentation of the Khazzan tight gas appraisal wells provides a rare opportunity to quantify reservoir pressure and temperature dynamics.

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Fig. 1—Example of a typical fracture-treatment surveillance illustrating a screenout being prevented by timely shutdown.

Downhole instrumentation of the Khazzan tight gas appraisal wells provides a rare opportunity to quantify reservoir pressure and temperature dynamics. Several appraisal wells were tested initially for 3–4 weeks and subsequently shut in for approximately 1 year. The continuous downhole-gauge recordings of the resulting pressure buildups were then analyzed to quantify understanding of stimulation effectiveness, reservoir quality away from the wellbore, total producible connected gas, geomechanics, and wellbore hydraulics. This paper examines the pressure-transient analysis (PTA) of one representative well in the field.

Value of Permanent Downhole Gauges in Tight Gas

Dual permanent downhole gauges (PDHGs) were spaced approximately 100 m apart in the upper-completion design, close to the perforations, to fulfill various surveillance requirements and provide the ability to measure gradients in the wellbore in real time.

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