| CPC G01N 24/081 (2013.01) [G01N 1/34 (2013.01); G01N 1/44 (2013.01); G01N 27/041 (2013.01); G01N 33/24 (2013.01)] | 5 Claims |
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1. A method for determining a soaking time of a shale gas well, implementing testing and experimentation using a device for testing the soaking time of the shale gas well, wherein the device for testing the soaking time of the shale gas well comprises an online nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tester, a core gripper disposed on the online NMR tester, a resistivity tester connected to the core gripper, a methane gas cylinder connected with an inlet of the core gripper, a simulated fracturing fluid injection pump connected with the inlet of the core gripper, a nitrogen gas cylinder connected with the inlet of the core gripper, a first pressure sensor connected with the inlet of the core gripper, a vacuum pump connected with the core gripper, a confining pressure pump connected with the core gripper, a second pressure sensor connected with the core gripper, a throttle valve connected with an outlet of the methane gas cylinder, a first valve connected with an outlet of the throttle valve, a third valve connected with an outlet of the first valve, a fifth valve connected with an outlet of the core gripper, and a computer control system electrically connected with the first pressure sensor, the second pressure sensor, and the core gripper, respectively, wherein a core sample to be tested is placed in the core gripper, a resistivity tester is configured to detect the resistivity of the core sample to be tested in the core gripper, and the online NMR tester and the core gripper are disposed in a constant temperature room;
the method for determining the soaking time of the shale gas well comprises:
S1, selecting a plurality of first core samples of which surfaces contain natural fractures and a plurality of second core samples of which surfaces do not contain the natural fractures, respectively; performing salt washing, oil washing, and drying on the plurality of first core samples and the plurality of second core samples; measuring lengths and diameters of the plurality of first core samples and the plurality of second core samples, and obtaining volumes of the plurality of first core samples and the plurality of second core samples, respectively; and measuring and obtaining porosity Φ0 of the plurality of first core samples and the plurality of second core samples, respectively;
S2, presetting a temperature in the constant temperature room to a temperature of a reservoir in which the plurality of first core samples and the plurality of second core samples are located, placing each of the plurality of first core samples in the core gripper, activating the confining pressure pump, and applying a core confining pressure to each of the plurality of first core samples in the core gripper; vacuumizing the core gripper using the vacuum pump to simulate a state of each of the first core samples in the reservoir;
S3, injecting methane into each of the plurality of first core samples in the core gripper using the methane gas cylinder until a pore pressure of the reservoir is reached, and maintaining the pore pressure for 4 days;
S4, activating the simulated fracturing fluid injection pump and injecting simulated fracturing fluid into the core gripper; and closing the third valve;
S5, activating the resistivity tester to measure a resistivity change curve of each of the plurality of first core samples; and continuously measuring and obtaining a half-life period of pressure attenuation of the first pressure sensor using a pressure attenuation method at a same time until an inflection point appears in the resistivity change curve of each of the plurality of first core samples;
S6, replacing each of the plurality of first core samples in the core gripper with each of the plurality of second core samples, and repeating operations S2-S5; and obtaining an experimental duration t1f during which each of the plurality of first core samples presents a shortest half-life period of pressure attenuation and an experimental duration t1m during which each of the plurality of second core samples presents the shortest half-life period of pressure attenuation, respectively;
during a time period between the injection of the simulated fracturing fluid in operation S4 and the appearance of the inflection point in the resistivity change curve in operation S5, continuously monitoring methane nuclear magnetic signals of the plurality of first core samples and the plurality of second core samples using the online NMR tester, and obtaining a time point t2f at which core nuclear magnetic signals of the plurality of first core samples have a largest change amplitude and a time point t2m at which the core nuclear magnetic signals of the plurality of second core samples have the largest change amplitude, respectively;
S7, sorting the experimental duration t1f during which each of the plurality of first core samples presents the shortest half-life period of pressure attenuation, the experimental duration t1m during which each of the plurality of second core samples presents the shortest half-life period of pressure attenuation, the time point t2f at which the core nuclear magnetic signals of the plurality of first core samples have the largest change amplitude, and the time point t2m at which the core nuclear magnetic signals of the plurality of second core samples have the largest change amplitude, taking sorted two intermediate arrays as time endpoints, and a value within the time endpoints being soaking time tc at a core scale; and
S8, obtaining soaking time tR of the shale gas well based on the soaking time tc at the core scale, which is expressed as:
 wherein V2 denotes a total volume of reservoir reconstruction by hydraulic fracturing; V3 denotes a total volume of sand spreading fractures formed in the reservoir after the hydraulic fracturing; Vc denotes a volume of the simulated fracturing fluid injected to establish a target water saturation of the core sample; V1 denotes a volume of each of the plurality of first core samples or each of the plurality of second core samples; Vf denotes a volume of fracturing fluid pumped for onsite hydraulic fracturing construction; and Φm denotes a reservoir porosity after hydraulic fractures are removed from a total reconstruction region of the hydraulic fracturing.
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