Organization
School of Petroleum Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
Abstract
In shale gas reservoirs, natural fractures tend to present a tortuous geometry. In order to study the dynamic change of gas flow in the shale reservoir fracture network, based on the tortuous capillary bundle model and the fractal binary tree model, the flow length of gas in the cracked capillary was corrected. The correction coefficient of crack capillary length was introduced. At the same time, according to the formula of gas nonlinear stable seepage, the network permeability model of binary tree crack with different tortuosity was deduced, and the model was verified by micro-etching model. The results show that in the shale gas reservoir, as the crack capillary length correction coefficient decreases, the fracture network fractal dimension increases, while the crack network bifurcation angle decreases, and the fracture network permeability increases. This research established a reasonable shale fracture network permeability model, which has certain guiding significance for the development of reasonable shale gas reservoir development plan.