PETE-358: WELL PERFORMANCE

COURSE OUTLINE
1.

Introduction
Well Test Objectives
Well Test Types
Inflow Performance Relationship

2. Fundamental Concepts in Well Testing

Flow Regimes: Steady, Pseudo-Steady and
Transient
Skin Effects
Wellbore Storage
Radius of Investigation
Principle of Superposition
3. Analysis of Pressure Drawdown Tests
Infinite-Acting Radial Flow Analysis
Constant Rate Drawdown
Variable Rate Drawdown
Estimating Reservoir Volume
4. Analysis of Pressure Buildup Tests
Analysis and Interpretation
Average Reservoir pressure
Detection of Fault Boundaries

PETE-358: WELL PERFORMANCE

COURSE OUTLINE
5. Computer-Aided Analysis and Interpretation
Pressure Derivative Plot Diagnostics
Flow Regime Identification
Well, Reservoir and Boundary Models
Pressure Derivative Analysis
Automatic Parameter Estimation
6. Gas Well Testing
Pseudopressure and Pseudotime
Non-Darcy Flow/Rate Dependent Skin
Gas Well Deliverability
Gas Rate Forecasting
7. Well Test Design
Design Considerations
Design Equations
8. Introduction to Horizontal Well Test Analysis
Flow Regime Identification
Analysis of Test Data

Well Performance
Also known as:
Well Testing
Pressure Transient Testing
Reservoir Testing

Well testing generally refers to

generating and measuring pressure
variations with time in wells, and
using this information to estimate
rock, fluid and well properties
Powerful reservoir description tool.
Essential for analysis and
improvement of reservoir performance
Classification
Productivity well testing
Descriptive well testing

Types of Tests

Drawdown
Buildup
Injectivity
Falloff
Interference
Deliverability

Productivity Testing
Inflow Performance
Inflow from Reservoir to Well
Performance depends on
reservoir and fluid properties:

Reservoir pressure
Permeability
Viscosity
Bottom hole pressure

The well can deliver only what

the reservoir provides

Inflow Performance
Inflow performance is usually
expressed in terms of flow rate
versus drawdown pressure or rate
versus bottom-hole pressure
For single-phase liquids, flow rate
is proportional to drawdown
pressure.
For gases and gas-liquid systems,
flow rate is not necessarily
proportional to drawdown

Inflow Performance

Inflow Performance
(Liquid)
q = PI (Pres Pw)
PI is the Productivity Index,
which depends on

Reservoir permeability
Net thickness
Drainage area
Fluid properties
Well damage or stimulation

A = Oil well: Low productivity

B = Oil well: High productivity
C = Gas well: general