THE CONTINUOUS LINE SOURCE SOLUTION

Length
 COMPRESSIBLE ZONE

The flow at a distance r from the well at time t can be determined

based on the microscopic Darcy’s law expressed in radial flow
and the based on the above expression
Figure below shows the flow profile at time t versus the distance
from the well
The following figure shows the variations in the flow profile
between two times t and t’
It would be inaccurate to treat the pressure perturbation in terms of propagation
and define a propagation velocity. In fact, the perturbation is diffused rather than
propagated in the medium.
 RADIUS OF INVESTIGATION

Oil industry literature offers a large number of different definitions

of the radius of investigation. Some of them are explained below
J. Lee and Muskat’s definition
 • Reservoir rate of flow:
FLOW REGIMES AND – Non-steady-State
Conditions do Change with time
COMPRESSIBLE ZONE – Steady-State
Conditions do not Change with time

Non-steady-state flow Steady-state flow

Transient flow Pseudo-steady-state flow
The radius of pressure
wave propagation from The pressure at any point in The pressure at any point in the
wellbore has not reached the reservoir declines at the reservoir remains constant over
any boundaries of the same constant rate over time time.
reservoir
PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION
PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION
The diagram shown in the
figure can be considered as
the sum of
 PRESSURE BUILDUP
One case of particular interest: when q2 is zero. This is
case for the great majority of tests

becomes
 MULTIRATE TESTING
For multirate testing

Equation becomes