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Wellbore pressure response in naturally fractured reservoirs

Conference · · Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5932964
Recently a new flow regime has been identified for pressure drawdown or buildup data obtained from a well producing a naturally fractured reservoir. During the time period corresponding to this new flow regime, a semilog plot of pressure vs. time exhibits a semilog straight line with slope equal to m/2, where m is the slope of both the early and late time semilog straight lines predicted by the Warren and Root model. The identification of this intermediate time semilog straight line means that pressure data may exhibit as many as 3 semilog straight lines. A virtually complete analysis of well test pressure data is possible when the data exhibits 2 or more of the 3 possible straight lines. This work presents type curves which can be used to obtain a virtually complete analysis of pressure data when only one of the 3 semilog straight lines is reflected by the data. 13 references.
OSTI ID:
5932964
Report Number(s):
CONF-8310121-
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States) Journal Volume: SPE-12012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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