UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA BOLIVIANA
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING AND NATURAL GAS
WELL TESTING
TEACHER:
Mgr. Alexandro Angulo
SUBJECT:
Reservoir Engineering III
ESTUDIANTES:
Fernando Calle
Gianluca Sossi
Cochabamba – Bolivia
December - 2016
Evaluation of a reservoir
1. Introduction:
Well testing a serial type of “exams” or “test” that are made in a reservoir to obtain
information and data that we can’t found using other techniques and that way reduce
our uncertainties.
to obtain all this information about the reservoir we have 3 phases:
1.-Exploration phase (determinate skin, permeability, heterogeneities)
2.-appraisal phase (more holes, more information, less uncertainties)
3.-develoment and exploitation phase (confirm PI, K, average pressure)
We have different type of test, the most used in the field are:
Drawdown test. - when we are producing and the reservoir pressure gets lower
Horner’s method (build up). - We shut in the reservoir and the pressure starts
to increase
Miller, dyes and Hutchinson (build up). – We use this method when our
production time (Tp) is much larger than the Shut-in time (TP>>shut in time)
Variable Rate Test (build up). - We use this method using the superposition
theorem, it’s a good method to find a precise wellbore storage but not so much
to find permeability.
Type curves (better for drawdown). - It’s a representation that shows the
evolution of the bottom hole pressure for a certain reservoir, like a “catalog”
Agarwal Equivalent time method (build up). – it’s a representation of the
pressure vs the equivalent time, but it has a problem when the reservoir has
bigger values of ∆p compared to the production time (Tp)
The derivative method. - We use this method to find LTR (late time regime) and
know the reservoir behavior in a long-time term
Using all these method and techniques in a safe way we are making sure that the
recovery percentage increase, and the reservoir has a good production.
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2. General objetives:
From the various data provided determine different properties of the reservoir
2.1. Specific objectives:
Use knowledge about the different types of methods learned and apply then
using pandsystem software
determine Skin, productivity index (J) , permeability (K) , Radius of
investigation (Ri) , IPR curve
3. Data
4. Procedure
- Introduce all the data to the pansystem and delimitating our flow rates, drawdown
and buildup. (image 1)
- Delimitate flow regimes for the wellbore storage and radial flow in each drawdown
and buildup using log-log plots and semi-log plots
- Using the respective equation (table 1) determine Skin, productivity index (J) ,
permeability (K) , Radius of investigation (Ri) , IPR curve
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5. RESULTS
Drawdown 1.- all the data used for calculating the properties were obtained from
(Images 2)
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Buildup 1 .- all the data used for calculating the properties were obtained from (Images
3)
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Drawdown 2.- all the data used for calculating the properties were obtained from (Images
4)
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Drawdown 3.- all the data used for calculating the properties were obtained from
(Images 5)
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Drawdown 4.- all the data used for calculating the properties were obtained from
(Images 6)
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Buildup 2.- all the data used for calculating the properties were obtained from (Images
7)
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6. Conclusions
- It is more advisable to obtain information from a pressure analysis during a buildup
test than during a drawdown test, because the results will be more reliable with the
closed well
- It is indispensable that a test of buildup has a duration equivalent to the test of
production previously realized to give time to the well so that it can be stabilized
after that it was altered by the effect of the production because otherwise the data
could be affected due to the effect Of storage.
- We have the presence of a acuifer in the drawdown 2 and a fault in drawdown 4
- Also we can assume that we are having a closed reservoir because un our build up
our curves are starting to go down , and the drawdown the curve is going up
7. Recommendations:
- Be careful when selecting slope points
- Be precise when making the lines for wellbore storage and radial flow
- Compare the values of permeability and skin of the Semi-log plot and Log-log plot,
these must be similar
- Making sure that our plot pressure is In psi , if not go to pressure transformation and
select pressure
- Save the work on pandsystem in the critical points because the software has some
troubles and it may crush
- Have the original software , that way we don’t have to worry about the crush problem
8. Bibliography:
http://es.slideshare.net/AlejandroCacheux/presentacion-aquiferos
Reservoir Engineering By Tarek Ahmed.
Diapositivas de clase.
9. Anexos
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IMAGES 2- DRAWDOWN 1
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IMAGES 3-BUILDUP 1
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IMAGES 4- DRAWDOWN 2
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IMAGES 5-DRAWDOWN 3
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IMAGES 6- DRAWDOWN 4
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IMAGES 7- BUILDUP 2
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IMAGES 1
TABLE 1
Skin (drawdown)
Skin (buildup)
Kh
Ri
