This paper describes the practical applicacion of a method known as Flowing Gas Material Balance FGMB (L. Mattar and Mcneil, 1997) for reserve's estimation using bottomhole flowing pressure data in two dry gas fields in Mexico. The main purpose of this work is to apply the method in real cases having enough data and make a comparison with other standard methods of reserves estimation (J. Lee, 1996 and G.J. DeSorcy, 1994) such as Volumetric, Decline Curve Analysis, Conventional Material Balance and Numerical Simulation to see the results and validate the efficacy of its application.There are some premises should be considered before its application that will be explained, besides the advantages and results of this comparison which showed differences no greater than 10% with respect to the method more trustable to report reserves for these reservoirs.

This paper describes the practical applicacion of a method known as Flowing Gas Material Balance FGMB (L. Mattar and Mcneil, 1997) for reserve's estimation using bottomhole flowing pressure data in two dry gas fields in Mexico. The main purpose of this work is to apply the method in real cases having enough data and make a comparison with other standard methods of reserves estimation (J. Lee, 1996 and G.J. DeSorcy, 1994) such as Volumetric, Decline Curve Analysis, Conventional Material Balance and Numerical Simulation to see the results and validate the efficacy of its application. There are some premises should be considered before its application that will be explained, besides the advantages and results of this comparison which showed differences no greater than 10% with respect to the method more trustable to report reserves for these reservoirs.

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