Study on the Effect of Cement Sheath on the Stress of Gas Storage Well

Compressed natural gas (CNG) has been widely used as an automotive fuel in china, which the service security of CNG storage well (CSW), the main storage equipment in Chinese filling station, is becoming more and more prominent. In order to analyze the stress of CSW and its influencing factors, the mechanical model of CSW + cement sheath + stratum (CCS) processed by both elastic mechanics and finite element method was studied in this work. Using the most common well of Φ177.8× 10.36mm as a calculation case to obtain the analytic solutions and numerical solutions of CCS. The results indicated that the analytic solutions and numerical solutions are very close with relative deviation less than 3%, which verified their reliability each other. The calculation case can prove that the stress of CSW reduced evidently due to the effect of well cementation, which equivalent to the value of circular and axial stress of CSW strengthens to 18% and 20%. And when increasing the elastic modulus of cement sheath, the stress of CSW decreased that the support and potentiation to CSW by cement sheath becomes stronger.