Department of Petroleum & Gas Engineering

Subject: Well Testing

Grade: 4th Class
Lecture: 5
Lecturer: Dheyaa F. Kadhim
2023
University of Thi-Qar, Iraq
 1. TRANSIENT WELL TESTING
A transient test: is essentially conducted by creating a pressure disturbance in the reservoir and
recording the pressure response at the wellbore, i.e., bottomhole flowing pressure pwf, as a
function of time.
The pressure transient tests most commonly used in the petroleum industry include:
1. Pressure drawdown.
2. Pressure buildup.
3. Multirate.
4. Interference.
5. Pulse.
6. Drill stem.
7. Fall off.
8. Injectivity.
9. Step rate.

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 1.1. Drawdown Test
1-Drawdown Test:
A pressure drawdown test is simply a series of bottom-hole pressure measurements made during a period of flow at
constant producing rate.
Usually the well is shut in prior to the flow test for a period of time sufficient to allow the pressure to equalize
throughout the formation, i.e., to reach static pressure.
The fundamental objectives of drawdown testing are:
1. To obtain the average permeability, k, of the reservoir rock within the drainage area of the well.
2. To assess the degree of damage or stimulation induced in the vicinity of the wellbore through drilling and
completion practices.
3. To determine the pore volume and to detect reservoir
inhomogeneities within the drainage area of the well.

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 1.1. Drawdown Test
The pressure behavior of a well in an infinite-acting reservoir:

The skin effect can be obtained by rearranging:

Then the average permeability is given by

The slope m is given by:

the pressure drop

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Example 3-242: Estimate oil permeability and skin factor from the drawdown data of Figure 3-35.
The following reservoir data are available: Assuming that the wellbore storage effects are not
significant, calculate:
• Permeability.
• Skin factor.

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Example 2. Given the rock and fluid properties in Table 3.1, analyze the pressure drawdown test
data in Table 3.2. calculate:
1. Permeability.
2. Skin factor.
3. Radius of investigation.

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Solution: 1. Graph the flowing bottomhole pressure, pwf , vs. the test time, t, on a semilog scale.

Note: The data toward

the end of the test
appear to fall on a
straight line, so we select
this data for analysis.

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2. Draw a straight line through the selected data, and find the slope m and intercept p1hr. Reading two
points on the straight line (as far apart as possible for best accuracy), we find the slope m to be

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Note: For a drawdown test, the slope m must always be negative.

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4. Calculate the permeability k from the slope m.

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5. Calculate the skin factor s from the slope m and the intercept p1hr.
From data

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6. Calculate the radius of investigation:

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