WELL TEST ANALYSIS

(PRESSURE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS)

Dr. Salam Al-Rbeawi

METU-Northern Cyprus
Campus
CHAPTER 8
MODERN WELL TEST
ANALYSIS
The solution of the flow equations, particularly for a radial-cylindrical flow, for
various boundary conditions may be obtained by the analytical solution
explained in the previous chapters or by the numerical solution.
These flow equation can be solved graphically. Agarwal, Al-Hussainy, and
Ramey 1970 presented a graphical solution for circular drainage area
reservoirs. This solution is referred to as type-curve.
Bourdet et al 1983 presented another type-curve plot for
a vertical wellbore in circular drainage area reservoirs
Al-Rbeawi 2018 presented a type-curve plot for a
horizontal wellbore in rectangular-shape reservoirs.
Bourdet et al. type-curve plot uses the pressure and the pressure
derivative defined by:
𝑃𝑖 − 𝑃𝑖−1 ∗ (ln 𝑡𝑖+1 − ln 𝑡𝑖 ) 𝑃 − 𝑃𝑖 ∗ (ln 𝑡𝑖 − ln 𝑡𝑖−1 )
+ 𝑖+1
(ln 𝑡𝑖 − ln 𝑡𝑖−1 ) (ln 𝑡𝑖+1 − ln 𝑡𝑖 )
𝑡 ∗ ∆𝑃′ = 𝑎𝑏𝑠( )
(ln 𝑡𝑖+1 − ln 𝑡𝑖−1 )

This plot can be used to characterize the reservoir parameters

(permeability, skin factor, and wellbore storage factor) by a
technique called type-curve matching. This technique includes the
following procedures:
1- Calculate the pressure drop ∆𝑷𝒘 .
2- Calculate the pressure derivative 𝒕 ∗ ∆𝑷′𝒘𝒇 using the model
above.
3- Log-log plot the pressure drop and the pressure derivative vs
production time.
4- Check that the number of the log cycles on your plot is the same
number of the log cycles on the type-curve plot for the X, and Y
axises.
5- Check that the size of your plot is the same size of the type-
curve plot.
6- Move your plot (left-right and up-down) to match the type-
curve plot.
7- Pick any point on your plot. This point should be located also
on the type-curve plot.
8- Read the coordinates of this point from your plot and the type
curve plot. The coordinates represent:
𝒕 𝑴 , ∆𝑷𝒘𝒇 , 𝒕 ∗ ∆𝑷′𝒘𝒇
𝑴 𝑴
′
𝒕𝑫 𝑪𝑫 𝑴, 𝑷𝑫 𝑴, 𝑷𝑫 𝑴

9- Read the value of 𝑪𝑫 𝒆𝟐𝒔 from the matching plots.

10- Calculate the permeability by:
𝟏𝟒𝟏. 𝟐𝑸𝝁𝑩 𝑷𝑫 𝑴
𝒌= .
𝒉 ∆𝑷𝒘𝒇
𝑴
11- Calculate the skin factor by:

12- Calculate the wellbore storage factor:

 Example-12
Q 1200 Stb/day Pi 4474 psi ct 2E-05 psi-1
u 0.29 cp po 0.216 h 26 ft
B 1.52 rbbl/Stb rw 0.22 ft
t, hrs Pwf, psi t, hrs Pwf, psi t, hrs Pwf, psi
0.01 4449.3 0.72 3310.4 9.84 2299.8
0.022 4419.7 0.874 3171.5 11.8 2281.1
0.036 4384.8 1.06 3035 14.2 2263.1
0.054 4343.9 1.28 2905.3 17 2245.6
0.074 4296.2 1.55 2786.8 20.5 2228.5
0.099 4240.7 1.87 2682.6 24.6 2211.7
0.129 4176.7 2.25 2595 29.5 2195.1
0.165 4103.1 2.71 2524 35.4 2178.7
0.208 4019.5 3.26 2468.4 42.5 2162.5
0.26 3925.2 3.92 2425.3 48 2156.8
0.322 3820.2 4.72 2391.6 60 2141
0.396 3704.9 5.67 2364.1 72 2118
0.485 3580.1 6.82 2340.6 96 2099
0.592 3447.8 8.19 2319.5 150 2062
 𝒕 𝑴 = 𝟏𝟎 ∆𝑷𝒘𝒇 = 𝟐𝟎
𝑴
𝒕𝑫 𝑪𝑫 𝑴 = 𝟏𝟒𝟎 𝑷𝑫 𝑴 = 𝟎. 𝟏
𝑪𝑫 𝒆𝟐𝒔 𝑴 = 𝟏𝟎𝟖

𝟏𝟒𝟏. 𝟐𝑸𝝁𝑩 𝑷𝑫 𝑴
𝒌= . = 𝟏𝟒. 𝟑𝟔 𝒎𝒅
𝒉 ∆𝑷𝒘𝒇
𝑴
𝒌𝒉 𝒕 𝑴
𝑪 = 𝟎. 𝟎𝟎𝟎𝟐𝟗𝟓 . = 𝟎. 𝟎𝟐𝟕 𝒃𝒃𝒍/𝒑𝒔𝒊
𝝁 𝒕𝑫 𝑪𝑫 𝑴

∅𝒄𝒕 𝒉𝒓𝟐𝒘
𝒔 = 𝟎. 𝟓𝒍𝒏 𝑪𝑫 𝒆𝟐𝒔 = 𝟒. 𝟗
𝟎. 𝟖𝟗𝟑𝟓𝟗 𝑪 𝑴