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Faculty of Engineering
Chemical and Petroleum
Eng. Dpt.
Ch. 2
Fundamentals of Well Testing
Dr. Rami HARKOUSS
CPE
Flow Regime
Darcy Law
Valid within a time interval when the flow rate and other parameters are constant
Does not depend on the porosity of the medium, or on the compressibility of either
the fluids or the rock.
Assignment 1
A well is producing in a radial reservoir at a bottom hole pressure of 5,500 psi. The reservoir
pressure is 6,000 psi. Oil viscosity is 0.25 cp and the formation volume factor is 1.5 bbl/STB.
If the permeability of the reservoir is 20 md, the thickness is 30 ft and the drainage radius is
1,000 ft., at what rate will the well produce? The well bore radius is 6"
If, by applying artificial lift method, the bottom hole pressure is reduced to 3,000 psi, at what
rate will the well produce?
Radial flow of a single-phase fluid with skin factor S
Example
A well is producing under reservoir pressure maintenance project. The reservoir pressure is
8,000 psi and the minimum possible wellbore pressure without using artificial lift is 7,500
psi. Well test analysis shows a skin factor of +4. Determine:
1. Well flow rate under these conditions
2. Well flow rate after an acid job that improves the skin factor to S = 0.
Basic Fluid Flow Equations in Oil
Reservoir
Equations of:
• Steady-State Flow
• Pseudo-steady state
• Unsteady state
Pe= 2200 psia; Pw= 950 psia; Oil flow rate = 100 rb/day;
rw = 0.39 ft; reff = 750 ft; h = 15 ft; μ0 = 0.95 cP;
q0 = 75 rb/day and P0 = 1.240 rb/stb.
• ∆pskin ?
• If ∆pskin = 0, q?
• If rw = 5.5 ft ∆pskin ?
K is missing… assume K = 10 mD
Pseudo-Steady State Flow
• Pseudo-steady state (PSS) flow occurs during
the late time region when the outer
boundaries of the reservoir are all no flow
boundaries.
This happens when the
reservoir boundaries are
sealing faults or nearby
producing wells cause no
flow boundaries to arise.
ft and is equal to
Porosity-
thickness
Flow Equ. for Different Flow Regimes
permeability-
• For PSS: thickness
In general
If P = Pe
If average pressure
for circular drainage
area
Skin factor for PSS
Example
Reservoir and well data are: Pe = 3350 psi; re = 2000 ft;
rw = 0.5 ft; ct = 10-5 psi-1; μ0 = 0.65 cP; pw = 3.050 psi;
q0 = 900stb/day; βo = 1.150 rb/stb.
The pwf is declining at a constant rate of 2.2 psi/day.
Determine:
1. Porosity-thickness
2. Permeability-thickness
3. Permeability-thickness. Assuming there is water drive
(steady-state flow) and bottom hole pressure remains
constant
When the fluid mass situated at the drainage
boundary starts moving towards the producing
well, the pseudo-steady state begins. This is also
called as semi-steady-state or a depletion state.
Finally:
Table 3-10
Shape Factor- Dependent Skin Factors, SCA, for Vertical
Wells
Generally, oil wells are developed on 40-acres
spacing and gas wells are developed on 160-acres
spacing.
hrs
Example: Oil Well
For an oil well drilled on 40-acre spacing, calculate the time to reach
pseudo-steady state given φ = 10%, cti = 0.00005 psi-1, k = 35 md, and
μ = 4.2 cp (shallow well-dead oil).
Radial form
Nonlinear equation
Laplacian
Linear Flow
Flow lines are parallel, and the cross-sectional area of flow is constant
which is the rectangular coordinate system in the one-dimensional
form:
Using Eq.
which reduces to
Finally
Example
What is the equivalent linear permeability of four
parallel beds having equal widths and lengths under the
following conditions?