4.

4 Length, conductivity and equivalent skin effect

❖ As for horizontal wells, pseudoradial flow to a

fractured vertical well applies when flow streamlines to
the well at sufficient distance are mainly radial.
❖ Prats( 1961) correlated the relative capacity
parameter( a), and the dimensionless effective
wellbore radius:

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