VARIABLE-RATE RESERVOIR LIMITS TESTING. Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • This paper presents a new method of estimating drainage area size and shape from production data (bottom-hole pressures and flowrates). The method is a rigorously derived approximation for variable-rate flow in a closed reservoir. This method requires a graph of DELTA p/qm vs. the superposition plotting function (which is easily calculated by hand). The slope and intercept of the graph are used to provide the desired estimates of drainage area size and shape. The method that the authors propose is an approximation, however it has been proved to be very accurate for the constant rate, constant pressure, exponential rate, logarithmic rate, hyperbolic rate, sinusoidal rate, and discrete rate cases. The method also gives acceptable results for square wave rate and random rate cases.

name of conference

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, (Paper) SPE

published proceedings

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, (Paper) SPE

author list (cited authors)

  • Blasingame, T. A., & Lee, W. J.

complete list of authors

  • Blasingame, TA||Lee, WJ

publication date

  • January 1986