A New Method for Analyzing Well Tests With Inadequate Early-Time Data Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Summary This paper presents a new technique, the cumulative-curvature method, for analyzing well tests with such limited early-time data that only nonunique type-curve matches are possible. The method is applied to buildup tests and single-rate drawdown tests that are distorted by wellbore storage and are run in infinite-acting reservoirs. The method was successfully applied to 16 of 22 field examples, two of which are presented here.

published proceedings

  • SPE Formation Evaluation

author list (cited authors)

  • Harris, D. E., & Lee, W. J.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Harris, Dan E||Lee, W John

publication date

  • March 1989