Numerical simulation of heating process of casing heater in natural gas hydrate production wells
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1.College of Construction Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun Jilin 130026, China; 2.Key Lab of Drilling and Exploitation Technology in Complex Conditions of Ministry of Natural Resources, Changchun Jilin 130026, China; 3.Oil and Gas Resources Investigation Center, China Geological Survey, Beijing 100083, China; 4.Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Guangzhou Guangdong 510075, China

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    The casing heater can also maintain the wellbore formation while maintaining the stability of the pore wall to prevent the formation of secondary hydrates in the well during the hydrate production process. In order to analyze the influence of daily water production, gas-water ratio and heating power on the temperature distribution in the well formation during the hydrate production process, the heating process was simulated by COMSOL Multiphysics. The simulation results show that the effect of water production rate on the heating effect is obviously greater than the heating power. The heating power mainly affects the formation temperature of the near-well section, and the gas-water ratio mainly affects the heating radius. The numerical simulation is used to analyze and evaluate the heating effect of casing heater, which is of guiding significance for the economical and efficient mining of natural gas hydrate.

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  • Received:November 06,2018
  • Revised:April 12,2019
  • Adopted:April 22,2019
  • Online: June 20,2019
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