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ISOCHRONAL TEST

MUHAMMAD HASHIR ALI

ROLL NO: 16PG119

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 CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• OBJECTIVE
• PROCEDURE
• GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION
• CONCLUSION

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 GENERAL MEANING
• UNIFORM IN TIME
• HAVING EQUAL DURATION
• RECURRING AT REGULAR INTERVALS

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 OBJECTIVE
• To determine the production capacity of gas wells for various conditions of reservoir
pressure and bottomhole pressure.
• To determine AOF.
• Determining necessity for stimulation.
• Correctly evaluating damage (skin effect).
• Establish inflow performance relationship curves for future comparison.

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 INTRODUCTION
• THE ISOCHRONAL TEST IS A SERIES OF SINGLE-POINT TESTS DEVELOPED TO ESTIMATE
STABILIZED DELIVERABILITY CHARACTERISTICS.
• THIS TEST IS DESIGNED FOR A LOWER PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS
• WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT OR IMPRACTICAL TO ACHIEVE STABILIZED FLOW BECAUSE OF LOW
RESERVOIR PERMEABILITY, THE ISOCHRONAL OR MODIFIED ISOCHRONAL MULTIPOINT TEST IS
USED.

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 INTRODUCTION
A DISADVANTAGE OF THE FLOW-AFTER-FLOW BACKPRESSURE TEST IS THAT IT MAY
TAKE A WHILE BEFORE A WELL STABILIZES, PARTICULARLY IN TIGHT RESERVOIRS
FOR THIS REASON, CULLENDER PROPOSED THE ISOCHRONAL TEST.

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 PROCEDURE
• THE ISOCHRONAL TEST IS CONDUCTED BY ALTERNATELY PRODUCING THE WELL THEN
SHUTTING IT IN AND ALLOWING IT TO BUILD TO THE AVERAGE RESERVOIR PRESSURE BEFORE
THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT PRODUCTION PERIOD.
• PRESSURES ARE MEASURED AT SEVERAL TIME INCREMENTS DURING EACH FLOW PERIOD.
• THE TIMES AT WHICH THE PRESSURES ARE MEASURED SHOULD BE THE SAME RELATIVE TO THE
BEGINNING OF EACH FLOW PERIOD.
• A FINAL STABILIZED FLOW POINT OFTEN IS OBTAINED AT THE END OF THE TEST.

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 PROCEDURE
• THE ISOCHRONAL TEST IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE RADIUS OF DRAINAGE
ESTABLISHED DURING EACH FLOW PERIOD DEPENDS ONLY ON THE LENGTH OF TIME FOR
WHICH THE WELL IS FLOWED AND NOT THE FLOW RATE.

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GRAPHICAL RESPRESENTATION

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 CONCLUSION
• ISOCHRONAL TESTING IS USED TO DETERMINE THE PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF GAS WELLS
FOR VARIOUS CONDITIONS OF RESERVOIR PRESSURE AND BOTTOMHOLE PRESSURE.

• THIS INFORMATION IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE FOR GAS-RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT

PLANNING AND THE ANALYSIS OF GAS-RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE.

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