Well Test Workshop Introduction

Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Well

Testing

David Wilkinson
 My Background

David Wilkinson
MA Chemical Engineering, 1979, Cambridge
University
BP Exploration, 1981-1999
RML / LR Senergy, 1999-2016
Honorary Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen
36 years experience as a petroleum/reservoir
engineer
Reservoir simulation, field development, well
planning, enhanced oil recovery, carbon capture and
storage, reserve audits, asset evaluations,
mentoring
 Well Test Workshop Introduction
Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Well
Testing

How to approach the problem

Reservoir characterisation
Types of well test which I have been
involved in
Potential importance of the interpretation
regarding assessment of viability of
subsequent reservoir development
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How to Approach the Problem
Consult geologist:
Depositional environment
Typical well log sections across field
Sand/shale layering
Sandbody connectivity
Hydrocarbon fluid type
Aquifer size and quality (diagenesis)
Consult geophysicist:
Mapped faults
Likelihood of unmapped or sub-seismic faults
Consult petrophysicist:
Rock properties, core data, small scale kv/kh, diagenesis
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Reservoir Characterisation
Permeability thickness kh (mDft)
Skin formation damage, partial
penetration
Zonal flow contribution
Boundaries faulting, depositional
Hydrocarbon and water zone fluid
analysis
Horizontal performance
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Skin
Old exploration wells
relatively low flowrate (or zero flow to surface), then abandoned and forgotten
acreage relinquished
Equivalent reservoirs nearby drilled
Often with better muds
Less overbalance (pressure regime better understood)
Some with better productivity
Small independent with investors (high risk reward)
Apply for Block
Drill well
Commercial rate (low skin etc.)
Farm out to larger companies
Retire
Many examples..Geoscience consultancies like Senergy are often asked to
perform the analysis
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Boundaries

Depositional
Low net to gross channel sands
Late time stabilised flowrate << initial
flowrate

Faulting
Connected OIP capable of being accessed
by a development well
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Horizontal Wells

Kv/Kh at various scales

PI, watercut development
recovery factor
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Prototype Development Well

Vertical well for water coning test

Long horizontal prototype
development well
Example from Captain Field Appraisal
to be presented during workshop
Includes calibration of reservoir
simulation models