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WELL TEST
INTERPRETATION MODELS

Temitope Ajetunmobi
KAPPA

April 2015

REGIONS
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1. Wellbore and near wellbore

region (inner boundary
conditions)
2. Reservoir description itself
(basic Model)
3. Outer extent of reservoir (outer
boundary conditions)

INNER BOUNDARY
CONDITIONS
1. Wellbore storage
2. Skin: effect usually seen as a
hump in the derivative plot
3. Induced fractures

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WELLBORE STORAGE
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Surface flow rate

Surface flow rate

q

q
drawdown
Sandface
flow rate

build-up
Sandface
flow rate

time

time

WELLBORE STORAGE
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Unit slope straight line on log-log pressure and derivative

p wD

qB
p =
t
24C

'
D

tD
=
CD

tD
dp D
=
=
t
CD
dIn( D )
CD

INDUCED FRACTURES
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Linear flow

p = 4.06

'
D

Bq
hx f

ct k

p D = t Df

dp D
=
= 0.5 t Df = 0.5 p D
dIn(t Df )

INDUCED FRACTURES
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Pressure: unit slope straight line on log-log

Derivative: unit slope straight line on log-log and half the pressure

BASIC MODEL
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1. Homogeneous
2. Heterogeneous
Double Porosity
Double Permeability

HOMOGENEOUS MODEL
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-One mobility kh/

-One storativity cth

HETEROGENEOUS MODEL
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Naturally
Fissured
System

Model Description

f
m
Schematic Diagram

PERIOD 1
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PERIOD 2
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PERIOD 3
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OUTER BOUNDARY
CONDITIONS
1. Infinite acting (IARF)
2. Finite acting
Sealing faults
Parallel Faults (Channel)
Closed boundaries

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INFINITE ACTING
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Active well

Infinite acting Radial Flow (IARF) Stabilisation

SINGLE SEALING FAULT

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Fault
Active
well

2(p) stab
p stab

PARALLEL FAULTS (Channel)

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unit slope

A : Well close to
one boundary
B: Well centre of
channel

CLOSED SYSTEM
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CLOSED SYSTEM PLOTS

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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
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Well with wellbore storage and skin in an homogenous

reservoir with channel boundaries

Skin

Channel boundary
Radial flow

Log p

Wellbore
storage

Log t

REFERENCES
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1. Olivier Houze, Didier Viturat, Ole S.

Fjaere (et al), Dynamic Data Analysis
(DDA) Handbook, 2013
2. D.Bourdet, Well Testing and
Interpretation
3. L.P Dake, The Practice of Reservoir
engineering, (Chapter 4 on Oil Well
Testing)