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Intellectual Skills:
3. Analyze pressure drawdown and buildup tests as well as
multi-rate, injection, falloff, and interference tests,
4. Determine the pertinent reservoir information and use
this information to propose enhanced reservoir
performance.
Practical Skills:
5. Prepare input data file and perform reservoir simulation
and use the output to support enhanced reservoir
performance;.
Transferable Skills:
7. Develop computational data analysis and modelling skills
8. Examine reliability of data in problem solving.
Teaching and learning 1. 20, 1h lectures. This method informs learning outcomes 1, 2, 3,
pattern 5.
2. 10, 3h computer laboratories. This method informs learning
outcomes 5, 6, 7, 8.
Indicative content
Role of well testing in formation evaluation.
Pressure drawdown test - single rate test, skin factor, wellbore
storage.
Pressure buildup test.
Injection and fall-off tests.
Multi-rate tests.
Repeat formation tester.
Horizontal wells testing.
Bounded reservoirs; determination of distance to no flow
boundaries, reservoir limit tests and determination of average
reservoir pressure.
Type curve matching (interference test).
Computer assisted well test analysis.
Well test design .
Indicative Sources John Lee, John Rollins, and John Spivey, “Pressure Transient
(Reading lists) Testing”, SPE Textbook Series Vol. 9, (2003).
Amanat U. Chaudhry “Gas Well Testing Handbook”, Elsevier
Science, ISBN 0-7506-7705-8 (2003).
Chaudhry, Amanat U “Oil Well Testing Handbook”, Elsevier Science &
Technology, ISBN 978-0-75067706-6 & electronic ISBN 978-0-0805-
7979-8 (2004).