Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

Geology and Petroleum Engineering Faculty

GEOPET Geopet Science Club

Saphir NL (PTA) Tutorial 1

Adviser: Lecturer Tran Nguyen Thien Tam
Nguyen Ninh Giang 1510840
Do Viet Toan 1513529

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 Creating a new Document

Step 1: Initialization of
the main document option:
“Keep everything as
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default and click Next”

 1. The parameter highlighted
with red fields have a
significant impact on results
and should not stay as
default value
2. Set the PAY ZONE (h) to 100
ft and POROSITY to 0.23

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 STEP 2 PVT reference

At this step, set the viscosity to

1.5 cp and keep the
compressibility at its default
value

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For this session, do not
change the default of this
stage. Click on Create

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 2. LOADING DATA
Change the document ‘s name to PTA Tutorial 1 and save
it
Click on the “Load Q” in the control panel on the left to
load the rate history

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After that, a window will display
– Define Data Source
Click on the icon and select
file “PTAEX01 Rates.txt”

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 Click “Next” to bring a dialog
where the file information is
interpreted line by line

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Keep everything as
Default and click Load
to Proceed.

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 The main Saphir NL screen is displayed again with a history plot showing
the loaded rates

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Click on the Load P icon to load the pressure
history
Click on icon and select the Excel file
“PTAEX01Pressure.xlsx” and click on Next

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 Keep the defaults
and Click on Load to
proceed

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 Back in the Saphir NL main workspace, the history plot is displayed
with both rate and pressure data

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3. Extracting the flow period and generating plots
Click on the Extract icon to call the extraction dialog. Click ok to proceeed

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 The main Saphir screen
has three plots (loglog,
semilog and history)

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 • Double clicking on the loglog plot
title bar maximizes it
• Among them, the “Show tool
parameter” display the wellbore
storage and permeability results

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 • Click on the “Tool” icon in the Analysis Control
Panel
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Fracture and the Reservoir Model to “Double

Porosity PSS” Click Ok to validate
 Two parallel half
slope lines and a
transition curve were
added. The unit slot
is now in blue.

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 6. Manual and Automatic Analytical Model

• There are two way to create a Analytical Model: Manual and Automatic
• The “Analytical” icon in the control panel accesses the manual analytical
dialog. Click on “Generate” button would generate the model.
• The “Automatic Analytical” icon appears when the Shift key is pressed.
Click on the icon and the model is excecuted in a single command, with the
result curves displayed on the three main plots.

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 The “Automatic
Analytical” ‘s result

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 7. Manual and Automatic Improve

The icon “Improve” icon

accesses manual improve
dialog
The “Automatic Improve” icon
(appears when pressing the
Shift key). Do this and it will
execute the improve in a
single command and update
the model respone on the
three main plots.

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 8. Straight line (specialized) Analysis

• The default Saphir workflow follow the control

panel options. Users can also create specialized
plots and analyze individual well or reservoir
behaviors by drawing appropriate straight lines
on them.
• Click on the “New plot” icon in the ribbon at the
top and choose “Flexible”.

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 Accept the default
plot type (Horner).
The Horner plot will
be added to the
main workspace

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 • Maximize the Horner plot and click
on the Composed lines. Choose
“Double Porosity PSS”
• Three regions will be highlighted
in the plot, marking early radial
flow, double porosity trasition and
final radial flow.
• Validate the section with OK

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 Restore the Horner plot by double click on the plot title bar

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9. Introduction to the model dashboard
This option is accessible from the Dashboard icon in the Analysis
ribbon. It brings the dialog shown below

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 The destination model
may be the analytical or
numerical model at the
bottom of the icon on the
left

Clicking on one of these

two button will transfer
the relevant active
“transferable” results.

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 10. Numerical Model

Click on the “Numerical”

icon to access the
manual numerical model
dialog

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The numerical model can be
defined automatically based
on the diagnostics (analysis
tool) or from the analytical
model.
To initialize the numerical
model from the analytical one
click on “ Reset from
analytical” and click on
“Generate”

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In addition to the model response and the well, a 3D plot with the
reservoir geometry, the static and dynamic reservoir properties is
also generated.

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 11. Sensitivity

• Once the model is generated,

sensitivity on various model
parameter can be run to see
their influence on the model
response.
• Click on the “Sensitivity” icon
to access the sensitivity dialog.
Select the porosity checkbox in
the “Reservoir” category.
• Keep the default set up and
click on “Ok” to generate the
sensitivities.

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References:
Saphir NL PTA Tutorial 1 (B01-PTAEX01); Kappa
Workstation v5.12 – Doc v5.12.01 – Kappa 1988-2017

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