Improving the technology for Inflow Profile Evaluation in horizontal Wells by temperature changes Due to calorimetric Mixing

The paper is devoted to the problem of increasing the effectiveness of temperature logging quantitative interpretation for the inflow profile evaluation in horizontal production wells draining heterogeneous reservoirs with low permeability. Such wells are characterized by an extremely uneven distribution of inflow along the length of the wellbore. One of the ways of quantitative interpretation of temperature logging is based on the effect of calorimetric mixing. It’s widely used to quantify the share of local producing intervals in the total flow rate.
The low accuracy of interpretation is associated with the lack of reliable information about the temperature of the fluid flowing into the wellbore. The authors propose an estimate of this parameter based on the similarity of the behavior of the temperature field vs time in the near-wellbore zone of a reservoir during periods of stable production and the periods of the well shut-in. This relationship is confirmed by the results of modeling the temperature field of the “well – reservoir” system, taking into account changes in a wide range of reservoir permeability and thermal properties of the reservoir, the geometry of hydraulic fractures in the reservoir, the flowing fluids, as well as the parameters of the well production targets. The logging technology recommended by the authors involves the registration of several temperature profiles along the length of the wellbore at the beginning of the well production with the maximum rate and drawdown and during the well shut-in. Their integrated analysis based on the behavior of the temperature field features in time identified on the basis of modeling makes it possible to evaluate with a high degree of certainty the dynamics of the temperature of the gas-liquid mixture coming from reservoirs to the wellbore during production periods. This provides the required accuracy in the quantitative assessment of the inflow profile from mixing anomalies.
The proposed approaches to the interpretation of thermograms are applicable in the analysis of the results of non-stationary temperature logging results in horizontal and vertical wells during the production from heterogeneous reservoirs both through perforation and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. 

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