Gas production has increased exponentially over the last 30 years, which is in
response to the increasing demand for natural gas. This trend is speculated to continue
to increase as legislation continues to be passed requiring power plants to reduce
nitrogen oxide emissions. This recently happened in Colorado according to the
Washington Post, giving more consideration to using natural gas.
As natural gas becomes more popular there is a need to understand the
production patterns and observable trends, integrating data from various sources. This
research will attempt to do just that for wells producing from the Travis Peak formation.
Using data from HPDI L.L.C., (www.hpdi.com) a visual representation was
created for the areal distribution of peak gas rates and cumulative gas production. This
allowed us to categorize wells by their production performance and we found that areas
with relatively high peak gas rates also had high cumulative gas production.
An analysis of these wells was done by completion year, and we found that
wellhead prices of natural gas strongly influenced the annual number of new wells. We
also found that the distribution of the annual number of new wells affected the average
annual initial production rate and the peak gas rate of new wells.
Wells located in areas of poor production performance were analyzed and it was
apparent that newer wells performed relatively better than older ones and well
stimulation is a major requirement for better gas production.
Wells located in areas of good production performance were also analyzed and
we found that the distribution of newer wells to older ones influenced the relative
performance of individual wells.
Overall, there was no observable trend between production variables in Travis
Peak. No trend in production variable was found to be exclusively associated with good
performing wells or poor performing wells.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8293 |
| Date | 2010 August 1900 |
| Creators | Ayanbule, Babafemi O. |
| Contributors | Valko, Peter |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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