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    Optimizing liquid recovery from a gas condensate reservoir operating below dew poin
    (U. P., 2019) Ariche, Princewill O; Onwukwe, S. I.; Duru, Ugochukwu; Chikwe, Anthony
    Fluid flow in gas condensate reservoir is very complex and involves phase changes, multiphase flow of the fluid, phase redistribution in and around the wellbore and retrograde condensation. This study seeks to evaluate the effect of hydraulic fracturing on gas and liquid production of gas condensate reservoir with pressure below dewpoint. This research utilised a compositional simulator (Eclipse 300) with a single vertical well model, relative permeability model,fluid and PVT parameters to model a gas condensate reservoir operating below dewpoint. Two cases were investigated. Case 1 is a control scenario where the reservoir was unfractured and allowed pressure to deplete using the reservoir energy. Case 2 represents a hydraulic fractured reservoir to ascertain the effect of fracturing on liquid and gas production. The hydraulic fracturing job was done using dual porosity dual permeability condensation model in Eclipse 300 with a conductive fracture attached closer to the wellbore with various fracture parameters. After ten years of production, the cumulative liquid production was 957803STB for the unfractured case. Fracturing the reservoir at fracture half length of 1000ft, fracture width of 0.03ft, fracture permeability of 1000md gave a cumulative liquid production of 1055936STB after ten years of production. Increasing the fracture half length to 2000ft, fracture width to 0.06ft, fracture permeability to 2000md gave a total liquid production of 1056137STB. Further increase of fracture half length to 3000ft, fracture width to 0.1ft and fracture permeability to 3000md gave a total liquid production of 1057139STB. The result obtained showed that continuous increase in fracture parameters may not result to an economic liquid recovery. Based on cumulative liquid production and economic feasibility of the project, a fracture half length of 1000ft, fracture width of 0.03ft and fractured permeability of 1000md proved optimal for the reservoir considered.