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Conventional Method: Well Tests - Interpretation Methods

The conventional method is used to interpret well tests and study radial flow around a well perforated along the entire reservoir thickness. It involves analyzing pressure buildup data using the flow rate superposition principle and semi-log plots of pressure versus time. Key parameters like permeability-thickness product, skin, and average reservoir pressure can be computed from the straight line slope and intercept on these plots. The Miler Dyes and Hutchison (MDH) method is an example that uses this type of interpretation.

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Conventional Method: Well Tests - Interpretation Methods

The conventional method is used to interpret well tests and study radial flow around a well perforated along the entire reservoir thickness. It involves analyzing pressure buildup data using the flow rate superposition principle and semi-log plots of pressure versus time. Key parameters like permeability-thickness product, skin, and average reservoir pressure can be computed from the straight line slope and intercept on these plots. The Miler Dyes and Hutchison (MDH) method is an example that uses this type of interpretation.

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WELL TESTS – INTERPRETATION METHODS

CONVENTIONAL METHOD

The methods covered are used to study radial flow around the
well that has been perforated over the whole reservoir thickness
Care must be taken to read the pressure at 1 hour on the semi-log
straight line and not by interpolating among the measurement
points. After one hour the data mat still be affected by the wellbore
storage effect. In this case, they did not verify the semi-log straight
line equation.
Most of the information from a well test comes from interpreting
the pressure buildups
Pressure buildup is analysed using the flow rate superposition
principle
The variation in flowing pressure are given by the following
equation once the wellbore storage effect has ended

Replacing the two right-hand terms of equation of the above


equation by the semi-logarithmic expression of radial flow gives
The above equations show that that the bottom hole pressure

varies linearly versus


RESERVOIR KH
SKIN
The skin value is computed from the difference between:
-- the value of the pressure recorded after 1 hour of the buildup on
the semi-log straight line
EXTRAPOLATED PRESSURE

It is used to compute the average pressure when production is not


negligible compared to the amount of oil in place
Becomes
The following figure illustrate the interpretation method developed
by Miler Dyes and Hutchison i.e. the MDH method:
(Figure)
below
A test after varying flow rates is interpreted using the flow rate
superposition principle

Once the wellbore storage effect has ended, the pressure


variations are given by the equation
RESERVOIR KH

SKIN

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