Pressure drawdown (PDD) Test –

Late Transient & Reservoir Limit Testing

Lecture 3b – Fiki Hidayat, M.Eng
 Late transient – bounded reservoir
• Pressure behavior at constant rate in bounded reservoir
can be represented by

• With slope and intercept

• Plot log (pwf - 𝒑) vs t will be linear if 𝒑 is known.

Therefore, trial and error method should be applied for
determining 𝑝
• Schematic late-transient drawdown analysis plot
 Late Transient Analysis
After determining the correct 𝑝, then kh can be calculated,

The pore volume (drainage volume) can also determine from the slop of
the plot,

in which re ,

Skin can also be determine,

Pressure drop due to skin

 RESERVOIR LIMIT
TESTING
If the reservoir is small enough or the
test long enough, outer boundary
effects will be encountered during the
well test.

This encounter may be accidental,

deliberate (as in reservoir limit
testing), or inevitable (analysis of
long-term production data).
 Semi-steady state (Reservoir Limit Test)
If the Pressure Drawdown (PDD) test is run for a long period of
time, the pressure will follow semi-steady state behavior.
Cartesian plot between Pwf and t should be linear, shows by
equation below.

where
Semi-steady state
The slope can be used to calculate the reservoir drainage volume

And if the PDD test data is available during infinite and SSS period,
drainage shape can be estimated

The dimensionless time used by Dietz to define the beginning of

SSS behavior
Problem Example
• See and redo the example 2.12 – Estimating Reservoir Pore Volume
from a Constant-Rate Flow Test (Pressure Transient Testing – John
Lee, John Rollins, John Spivey)