2024/03/20 by Frank Male · 1 voice
Engineering · #Drilling and Well Engineering #Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis #Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
paper · pdf · doi:10.21105/joss.06191
openalex publication_date 2024/03/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/17
Well connectivity analysis has many applications for subsurface energy, covering any project where nearby wells are expected to influence one another, whether they are in oil or gas fields, geothermal fields, or an aquifer.After completing a well connectivity analysis, reservoir managers know the degree and time-dependence of influence of one well's behavior on another.With this knowledge, they can better allocate injections and plan well interventions.Capacitance Resistance Models are useful for performing well connectivity analysis with limited information about the geology of the reservoirs involved (Yousef et al., 2006).They are called Capacitance Resistance Models to refer to the fact that the equations describing well influence mimic a network of capacitors and resistors (Holanda et al., 2018).