Well Testing

Module Title Well Testing

Level 5
Reference No. EAX_5_288/PTRL31H02
(showing level)
Credit Value 10 credit points

Student Study Hours Contact hours: 20 lectures + 30 Computer Laboratories

Student managed learning hours: 100
Pre-requisite learning -
Co-requisites -
Excluded combinations -
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Short Description Derivation of the diffusivity equation for slightly
compressible fluid. Solution of the diffusivity equation
using Boltzman transformation. Pressure drawdown,
buildup tests. Injection and fall-off tests. Average reservoir
pressure. Reservoirs limit tests. Type curve matching.
Interference and pulse testing. Test design and
instrumentation.
Aims The aims of this module are:
 To introduce the theory of well testing and its
applications
 Emphasize the importance of well testing as a tool for
reservoir description, evaluation and analyzed well tests
to provide reservoir parameters and monitoring well
performance.

Learning Outcomes Knowledge and Understanding:

1. Underlying concepts and theory of well testing and their use in
understanding and monitoring well performance.
2. Using suitable well testing equations for selected well
evaluation task

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;.

6. Design well tests, use computer software and apply the

mathematical solution of the diffusivity equation in order to

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 design reservoir drive mechanisms and solve problems relating
to pressure around the well bore and water influx.

Transferable Skills:
7. Develop computational data analysis and modelling skills
8. Examine reliability of data in problem solving.

Employability To prepare student to get job and be professional graduate in

future, the development of one or more of top engineering skills,
namely problem solving, communication, management and
environment and economics, is addressed in this module.
Personal development planning is also one of our focuses in this
module

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 .

Assessment  Examination: A 180 minutes unseen

Elements & weightings written examination assesses
learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5. 70%
 Course Work: 30% In-class
assessment by using one of
industrial software. This method
assesses learning outcomes 5, 6, 5, 7, 8. 30%
 Students must achieve (i) 40% for the total module mark
and (ii) at least 30% in the unseen examination and the
course work in order to achieve an overall passing mark
for this module.

Indicative Sources
(Reading lists)
 John Lee, John Rollins, and John Spivey, “Pressure Transient
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).

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