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Production Analysis: Power-law Exponential Decline<br />

SPE 116731<br />

Exponential vs. Hyperbolic Decline in Tight<br />

<strong>Gas</strong> S<strong>and</strong>s — Underst<strong>and</strong>ing the Origin <strong>and</strong><br />

Implications for Reserve Estimates Using<br />

Arps' Decline Curves<br />

D. Ilk, Texas A&M U., J.A. Rushing <strong>and</strong> A.D.<br />

Perego, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., <strong>and</strong> T.A.<br />

Blasingame, Texas A&M U.<br />

a. Production forecast <strong>of</strong> a tight gas well using Arps' hyperbolic<br />

decline relation.<br />

[DI]<br />

b. Derivation <strong>of</strong> the power-law exponential relation.<br />

c. "qDb" plot — Data matched using power-law exponential rate<br />

decline relation.<br />

StrataGen <strong>Engineering</strong> — 2011 Workshop<br />

Stimulation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Unconventional</strong> <strong>Oil</strong> <strong>and</strong> Natural <strong>Gas</strong> Liquid <strong>Reservoirs</strong> — 27 April 2011<br />

<strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Aspects</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Unconventional</strong> <strong>Oil</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Gas</strong> <strong>Reservoirs</strong><br />

Dilhan Ilk (DeGolyer & MacNaughton)/T.A. Blasingame (Texas A&M U.)<br />

Slide — 20/37

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