WellTestInterpretation

SKM4323

THEDERIVATIVE
Azmi Mohd Arshad
DepartmentofPetroleumEngineering

WEEK07

Introduction
Methodsusingthepressurederivativetakeadvantageofthe
advantagesofthetypecurverepresentationandcounteract
thedrawbacksofthelogarithmicrepresentation.
Thesemethodsarebasedonanobservedfact:inawelltest
thepressurevariationismoresignificantthanthepressure
itself.
Thisisillustratedbythefactthatitistheslopeofthesemi
logstraightlinesthatisusedtogetinformationonthe
reservoirinconventionalmethods.
D.Bourdets approachwereproposedinoilindustry
literatureintheearlyeighties.

D.BourdetsApproach

D.Bourdets Approach/2

D.Bourdets Approach/3
Procedure
Plotthemeasuredfielddatapointsandtheir
derivative,t(dp/dt),simultaneouslyontracing
paperusingthescaleprovidedbythetypecurves.
Lookforatypecurvetomatchthefielddata.
NotetheCDexp(2S)valueofthetypecurve
matchingthedatabest.
Pickamatchpointinboththetypecurve
coordinatesystemandthedatasystem.
Analyze.

D.Bourdets Approach/4

D.Bourdets Approach/5

D.Bourdets Approach/6

D.Bourdets Approach/7
Thepointsofthederivativeofradialflow
measurementscorrespondtoahorizontalstraight
line.Thepointsarematchedonthe0.5ordinate
horizontalstraightlineonthesetofcurves.
Thepointsofthederivativeofwellborestorage
effectmeasurementsarelocatedonaslope1
straightline.Theyarematchedontheslope1
straightlinepassingthroughtheoriginofthe
coordinatesonthesetoftypecurves.

Example8
(Inclassworkshop)
Drawdown

Example9
(Inclassworkshop)
Buildup

Directinterpretation
Permeabilityis
calculatedbased
onthevaluepst
correspondingto
thestabilization
ofthederivative.
Thevalueofthis
derivative
expressedin
dimensionless
termsisknown,it
isequalto0.5.

Directinterpretation/2
Theexpressionofpst inrelationto0.5isequalto:

141.2 qB
p =
x 0.5
kh
'
st

(in practical US units)

(6.14)

Itisusedtocalculatethereservoirskh:
0.5
kh =141.2 qB x
p st'

(in practical US units)

(6.15)

Directinterpretation/3
Wellborestoragecanbecalculatedifthecoordinatesofa
pointlocatedontheslope1straightlineareknown:p1
andt1.
Duringdominatingwellborestorageeffect:

qB
p1 =
t1
24 C

(6.16)

qB t1
C=
24 p1

(6.17)

hence:

Directinterpretation/4
Theskincanbecalculatedifthecoordinatesofapointlocated
onthesemilogstraightlineareknown:ps,ts.

p s
t s
k

S =1.151
log

log
2

t s
2.303 p st'
c
r
+
3.23

t
w
1+

t
p

(6.18)

Inthecaseofavaryingflowrate,asuperpositionfunction
mustbeusedtocalculateit.

Example10
(Inclassworkshop)

WelltestInterpretation
UsingSoftware
Inclassworkshop

References
1. Bourdarot,Gilles:WellTesting:Interpretation
Methods,ditions Technip,1998.
2. Internet.