CGE 659

Petroleum Production
Engineering

Inflow Performance Relationship

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Summary

IPR
An analytical relation between bottomhole pressure
(Pwf) and production rate (q) for a given flow regime
Is a plot of the bottom hole pressure vs bottom hole
flowrate
Productivity index - The ratio of flow rate to the
difference drawdown
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 Undersaturated or saturated reservoir

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Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)

1. Inflow performance relationship (IPR)

A. Transient flow (time-dependent) linear function of log t

For oil

For Natural gas

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Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)

1. Inflow performance relationship (IPR)

B. Steady-state flow (time-independent)

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Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)

1. Inflow performance relationship (IPR)

A. Pseudo steady state flow

For oil

For Natural gas

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IPR of single phase flow

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Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)

Inflow performance relationship for two-phase flow

Vogel method

Fetkovich method

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