Research Article

Production Decline Analysis and Hydraulic Fracture Network Interpretation Method for Shale Gas with Consideration of Fracturing Fluid Flowback Data

Table 3

Comparison of interpretation results.

Interpretation model
(arbitrary shape)
(rectangular)

Explain methodMicroseismic resultProduction decline analysisIntegrated inversion
(proposed in this paper)
KAPPA (commercial software)
Total length of discrete fractures (m)8189.65028.44887.64378.4
Average fracture half-length (m)157.596.793.484.2
Average fracture conductivity (mD·m)210.674.569.7124.6
SRV volume (104 m3)739435418396.9
Average width of SRV (m)56.848.747.745.3
SRV permeability (mD)
SRV porosity0.058