Modeling fracturing pressure parameters in predicting injector performance and permeability damage in subsea well completion multi-reservoir system

Abstract The significance of fracturing parameters which are aquifer integrity, rock properties, thermal stress, fracturing pressure and produced water quality to alter permeability damage, cake formation and injectivity performance was highlighted in a robust improved internal filtration—hydraulic model and permeability reduction model incorporating a $$R_{\text{AT}} (c)$$ RAT(c) function. The studied system is an injection well multi-reservoir formations. Field data obtained from the log and field reports and improved model were used to simulate injector, fracturing and permeability damage performance. Thus, data requirements in the $$R_{\text{AT}} (c)$$ RAT(c) function which are rock properties, water quality, aquifer integrity, fractures rates and pressures parameters were assessed for its impact on injector performance and permeability damage simulated in MATHLAB and COMSOL multi physics environment. The profile of injector performance and damage reservoir permeability to changes in rock properties and aquifer integrity were demonstrated to have a profound influence on both fracturing phenomena. Thus, sustainable re-injection scheme was shown as a direct consequence of rock mechanics parameters, well hydraulics aquifer integrity that largely depends on the initial concentration of active constituents of the produced water as well as physic-chemical properties of the host aquifer.

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