<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ENG</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Engineering</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">1947-3931</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/eng.2015.77041</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ENG-58139</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Engineering</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  A New Method for the Dynamic Reserves of Gas Condensate Reservoir Using Cyclic Gas Injection Based on the Effects of Reinjection Ratio and Water Influx
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>u</surname><given-names>Xiong</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ling</surname><given-names>Wang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhongqian</surname><given-names>Zhu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wei</surname><given-names>Xie</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Tarim Oilfield Research Institute, Beijing, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>swpuwl@163.com(UX)</email>;<email>swpuwl@163.com(LW)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>06</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>07</volume><issue>07</issue><fpage>455</fpage><lpage>461</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>23</day>	<month>June</month>	<year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>18</month>	<year>July</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>21</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  As we all know, cyclic gas injection is one of the most effective development methods to improve condensate oil recovery. When dealing with the calculation of the reserves, the injection-production differences and water influx create great influence on the accuracy. Based on the existing research, we proposed a new material balance equation which considered the differences of composition between produced and injected fluids and the effect of water influx, and a solution was provided in this paper. The results of the method are closer to the actual situation because they are built on the law of conservation of mass, and the using of curve fitting method can not only avoid the use of water influx coefficient but also obtain the water influx rate and reserves at the same time. The YH-23 gas condensate reservoir is taking as a typical subject to do the research, which has been exploited by cycle gas injection for 14 years. Three different methods are used to calculate the reserves, and the results show that the method proposed in this paper has minimum error of 2.96%.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Condensate Gas Reservoir</kwd><kwd> Cyclic Gas Injection</kwd><kwd> Dynamic Reserves</kwd><kwd> Material Balance Method</kwd><kwd> Reinjection Ratio</kwd><kwd> Water Influx</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Classical material balance method is one of the fundamental tools of reservoir engineering. It can be used to determine original gas-in-place and recoverable reserves [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref1">1</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref3">3</xref>] . Condensate gas reservoir has special retrograde condensation phenomenon, when its formation pressure drops to below the dew-point pressure, condensate oil which is originally gas will become liquid. Depletion development will lead to a serious loss of condensate; cyclic gas injection is one of the major measures to keep formation pressure and improve condensate oil recovery [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref4">4</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref7">7</xref>] .</p><p>Gas cycling is a way that dry gas is separated from the produced well fluids and then injected to keep the pressure. The injected gas contains only light components, but produced well flow contains both light and heavy components. Although produced and injected fluids are both hydrocarbon fluids, there is a huge differentia in composition. When using material balance equation to determine the original gas-in-place of gas condensate reservoirs, the expression of two fluids must be separated, and otherwise the result is unreliable [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref8">8</xref>] .</p><p>In gas condensate reservoirs with edge-bottom water, water influx is one of the key parameters for determination of development scale and production plan [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref9">9</xref>] . How to calculate the rate of water invasion correctly while analyzing the performance and calculating the dynamic reserve with material balance equation is still a difficulty for a long time.</p><p>In this paper, we build a new method and solution, which can be used to determine reserves and water influx rate. The method is applicable to condensate gas reservoir developed by cyclic gas injection, which reflects the influence of water invasion and injection-production differences.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Derivation of Material Balance Equation</title><sec id="s2_1"><title>2.1. Fundamental Equation</title><p>According to the law of conversation of mass, the underground reserves can be determined by subtracting the produced oil and gas from the amounts of original reserves and dry gas injection combined, molar number is used to describe the relationship because it can’t be influenced by temperature and pressure, the equation can be expressed as Equation (1).</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula5"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x5.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where, n<sub>i</sub><sub> </sub>is the mole number of initial reserves; n<sub>j</sub> is the mole number of underground remaining reserves; n<sub>ij</sub> is the mole number of cumulative injected gas; n<sub>p</sub> is the mole number of cumulative production.</p><p>The equation of authentic gas is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref10">10</xref>] . Using different parameters to describe the number of moles of hydrocarbons at the initial state:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula6"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x7.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where, p<sub>i</sub>, Z<sub>i</sub>, V<sub>i</sub> are the formation pressure, deviation factor and pore volume under the original condition respectively, p<sub>sc</sub>, Z<sub>sc</sub>, T<sub>sc</sub> are the pressure, deviation factor and absolute temperature under the standard condition respectively, G is the original condensate gas geological reserves, R is universal gas constant, T is the absolute temperature of reservoir.</p><p>Two phases, gas and liquid, exist in the formation when the bottom-hole pressure is lower than dew-point pressure, yet the two-phase deviation factor will be adopted to take place of single-phase deviation factor. The molar volume of underground hydrocarbon is:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula7"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x8.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The mole number of cumulative injected gas is:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula8"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x9.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where, V<sub>j</sub> is the pore volume in the process of production; V<sub>ij</sub> is the volume of injected gas; Z<sub>2</sub> is the two-phase deviation factor.</p><p>Produced condensate gas will become dry gas and condensate oil after the separator, translate the number of condensate oil as gas volume [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref11">11</xref>] , thus the amount of produced hydrocarbons as follows:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula9"><label>(5a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x10.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula10"><label>(5b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x11.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula11"><label>(5c)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x12.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Plug the above equations in Equation (1), which is:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula12"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x13.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In the above equations, G<sub>Lp</sub> is the cumulative production of condensate gas which includ dry gas and conversion volume of condensate oil, GE<sub>o</sub> is conversion volume of condensate oil, n<sub>o</sub> is the cumulative production of condensate oil.</p></sec><sec id="s2_2"><title>2.2. Introduction of Reinjection Ratio and Water Influx</title><p>As a non-ignorable factor in water drive gas reservoir, we must consider the influence of water invasion in the application of material balance method. With the exploitation of gas reservoir, water from water bodies flows into stratum, part will output and the rest still remain in the pore space. If we neglect the elastic expansion volume of rock and bound water, there is an equation about voids volume:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula13"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x14.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Assuming that hydrocarbons exist as vapor phase in the strata under the original condition, the original pore volume of gas can be written as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. We define the volume coefficient of remanent water as the ratio of the water storage in to the cubage, which is:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula14"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x16.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula15"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x17.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where, W<sub>e</sub> is the cumulative water influx rate, W<sub>p</sub> is the cumulative production of water, B<sub>w</sub> is the water volume factor, B<sub>gi</sub> is the original oil volume factor.</p><p>Combine Equation (6) with Equation (9), then the expression is:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula16"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x18.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Reinjection ratio is volume ratio of injected dry gas vs. total produced gas. Research and practice show that with the increase of reinjection ratio, some medium weight hydrocarbons transfer from oil to gas, the recovery of condensate oil improved. The volume ratio of accumulative production of dry gas vs. condensate gas is R<sub>v</sub>, and K is the reinjection ratio, therefore, we get Equation (11).</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula17"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x19.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We define an apparent reinjection ratio as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, that the equation can be simplified further:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula18"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x21.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>With the growing water influx, the nonlinear degree of Equation (12) becomes higher. Change the equation as a linear relationship of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which can be used to determine the OGIP. If we can obtain the accurate value of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and make a diagram, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the OGIP is equal to the size of the abscissa of the intercept.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula19"><label>(13a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x26.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula20"><label>(13b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x27.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s2_3"><title>2.3. Optimizing Solution</title><p>There are many methods can be used to obtain water influx [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref12">12</xref>] , but the process is complicated and apt to have deviation. In order to make the solution easier, new parameter, apparent relative pressure, is introduced to avoid using water influx.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula21"><label>(14a)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x28.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula22"><label>(14b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x29.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>There is a statistical relationship between <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref13">13</xref>] :</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula23"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x32.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We define <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then the prediction equation of the apparent relative pressure can be expressed as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula24"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x35.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Assuming a series of A, B values to seek an optimal fitting between the measured values and the predicted ones. When the deviation value is the minimum, we get the best fitting. Using the values of A and B can calculate the reserves and water influx.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula25"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x36.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Least squares method is widely used in curve fitting. To solve Equation (17) is equivalent to solve Equation (18).</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula26"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x37.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The Newton iteration method and the steepest descent principle are conventional solutions for unconstrained problem, but their application ranges are different. To solve this problem, we introduce the levy berg algorithms into the solution, which is a combination of the two methods.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula27"><label>( 19a )</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x38.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula28"><label>(19b)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x39.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula29"><label>( 19c )</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x40.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the A value get from the k times iteration; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the increment of A value; D is the diagonal made up by derivative of E with respect to A.</p><p>Plug the A value get from each iteration into Equation (17) to calculate the deviation, when the deviation reach the minimum, we get the optimal result.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Example and Results</title><p>The condensate gas reservoir of YH-23 located at the bottom of the paleogene and the top of the cretaceous, characterizing with high formation pressure, high dew pressure and high condensate oil content. The initial pressure is 56.11 MPa that is close to the critical state where saturation pressure is approach to maximum retrograde condensate pressure, and the phenomenon of retrograde becomes more obvious as pressure drops down. In order to maintain the formation pressure and enhance the oil recovery, cyclic gas injection has been lasting for 14 years. The temperature is 137˚C and gas bearing area is 24.5 km<sup>2</sup> and the porosity is 13.9%. By the end of 2013, related production data are given in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref>.</p><p>With the method proposed in the paper, we get an optimal fitting of measured values and predicted values of the apparent relative pressure, the fitting-curve is provided in the <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>, and the results are listed in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref>.</p><sec id="s3_1"><title>3.1. Calculation of Reserves</title><p>According to the method in this paper, the reserves can be obtained by parameter A, and the calculation formula is Equation (20). We use three different methods to determine the reserves, the proven geological reserve is provided as a counterpoint, the final results are shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref>.</p><fig id="fig1"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> The fitting-curve of the gas condensate reservoir</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x43.png"/></fig><table-wrap id="table1" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref></label><caption><title> Production data of the condensate gas reservoir</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >Time</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Pressure (MPa)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Deviation factor</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Cumulative gas (10<sup>8</sup> m<sup>3</sup>)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Cumulative oil (10<sup>4</sup> t)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Cumulative water (10<sup>4</sup><sup> </sup>t)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Cumulative gas injection (10<sup>8</sup><sup> </sup>m<sup>3</sup>)</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2001</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >55.17</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.3713</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.7542</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >56.2596</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.0531</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.0687</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2003</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >54.09</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.3587</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >25.2189</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >141.0658</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.1278</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >19.9743</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2005</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >53.01</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.3418</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >41.8006</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >227.2167</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.2118</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >29.3444</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2007</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >50.09</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.2995</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >60.6059</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >321.0892</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.2557</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >39.4014</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2009</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >47.17</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.2730</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >83.9331</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >422.0353</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.0930</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >45.9593</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2011</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >45.50</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.2530</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >105.9413</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >506.7552</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.2084</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >55.3029</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2013</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >43.80</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.2388</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >131.9585</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >590.1109</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >16.3370</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >69.4387</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><table-wrap id="table2" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref></label><caption><title> The fitting result of the gas condensate reservoir</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >A</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >B</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >E(A, B)</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.0049</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.368</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.067</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula30"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x44.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>As can be seen from <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref>, the number 1 is the proven geological reserve, and the number 2 - 4 are reserves calculated by three different methods. Comparing the results in the <xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref>, we can find that method 2 has largest error and the suggested method has smallest error. To analyze the three methods, method 2 assumes that the gas reservoir has closed boundary and constant volume, which is the primary reason of error. Although the method 3 has significant improvement than method 2, the computed result is on the large side because of the calculation error of water influx. In contrast to the previous approaches, the application of the suggest method is more convenient and the result is more accuracy.</p></sec><sec id="s3_2"><title>3.2. Prediction and Analysis of Water Invasion</title><p>According to the Equation (8) and the Equation (15), the water influx rate can be determined by parameter B:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.58139-formula31"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x45.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Related parameters of water invasion can be calculated, which were shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">Table 4</xref>. In order to discuss the accuracy of prediction of water invasion, production data of 2010 are provided to contrast with the predicted value. As is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref14">14</xref>] , log interpretation indicates that gas-water contact of gas reservoir rose an</p><fig id="fig2"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> The log interpretation of YH23-2-H4</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-8102418x46.png"/></fig><table-wrap id="table3" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref></label><caption><title> Reserves calculated by different methods</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >number</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >method</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Condensate gas (10<sup>8</sup> m<sup>3</sup>)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Natural gas (10<sup>8</sup> m<sup>3</sup>)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Condensate oil (10<sup>4</sup> t)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Error (%)</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Proven geological reserve</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >196.22</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >176</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1240.9</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >/</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Method considering injection-production differences [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref8">8</xref>]</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >/</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >232.20</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1637.10</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >31.93</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Water drive material balance method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.58139-ref9">9</xref>]</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >218.94</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >196.38</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1384.58</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.58</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Suggested method</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >202.02</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >181.20</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1277.58</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.96</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><table-wrap id="table4" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">Table 4</xref></label><caption><title> Predicted parameters of water invasion</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >Basic parameters</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Result</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >The intensity of water invasion</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.368</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Water invasion volume factor</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.238</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >The cumulative water influx rate (10<sup>4</sup> m<sup>3</sup>)</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1676.604</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Maximum speed of water invasion (10<sup>4</sup> m<sup>3</sup>/month)</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >21.247</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><p>average of only three meters while single well water cone up seven meters. We can use volumetric balance formula to obtain the cumulative water influx rate, which is 1021.65 &#215; 10<sup>4</sup> m<sup>3</sup>, the prediction result of suggested method is 1104.42 &#215; 10<sup>4</sup> m<sup>3</sup>.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Conclusions</title><p>In summary, we draw the following conclusions:</p><p>1) We infer a material balance equation for dynamic reserves of condensate gas reservoir based on the law of conservation of mass, considering the influences of water invasion and injection-production differences. The structure of equation is simplified by the reinjection ratio and water influx, which is similar to the form of general material balance equation for gas reservoir.</p><p>2) The application of the optimization method avoids the use of water invasion coefficient. The results show that the fitting error and the dispersion degree of measurements and predictions of the apparent relative pressure are minor, which prove that this method is in line with the actual situation of gas reservoir and accurate in the calculation of reserves.</p><p>3) The forecast results of water invasion about the real gas reservoir by the proposed method correspond with the results of well log interpretation. This indicates that the proposed method can predict the basic parameters of dynamic water invasion accurately as well as dynamic geological reserves.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>YuXiong,LingWang,ZhongqianZhu,WeiXie, (2015) A New Method for the Dynamic Reserves of Gas Condensate Reservoir Using Cyclic Gas Injection Based on the Effects of Reinjection Ratio and Water Influx. 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