Research Article

Prediction of Production Performance of Refractured Shale Gas Well considering Coupled Multiscale Gas Flow and Geomechanics

Table 1

Reservoir and fracture parameters used in this simulation.

ParametersValuesUnitsParametersValuesUnits

Number of initial fracturing stage16Cluster number3
Length of horizontal well1600mCluster spacing30m
Well radius0.1mFracture permeability in stimulated area0. 01mD
Bottom-hole flowing pressure3MPaHydraulic fracture conductivity0.2D·cm
Initial reservoir pressure21MPaHydraulic fracture half-length100m
Reservoir temperature80°CBandwidth of SRV per cluster6m
Number of refractured fractures32Stress sensitivity coefficient0.01MPa-1
Shape factor of kerogen system321/m2Porous medium tortuosity5
Fracture spacing in SRV1mReservoir height40m
Natural fracture porosity0.001Langmuir volumem3/kg
Total matrix porosity0.05Langmuir pressure5MPa
The portion of the kerogen pore volume in total matrix pore volume0.25Shale density2600kg/m3
Initial pore radius in inorganic matrix10nmGas molecular mass0.016kg/mol
Initial pore radius in kerogen2nmSurface diffusion coefficientm2/s
Overburden stress40MPaMaterial constant0.04
Poisson’s ratio0.2Horizontal minimum principal stress37MPa
Horizontal maximum principal stress41MPaElastic modulus25GPa
Langmuir volume strain0.001Net pressure of open fracture3.5MPa