Industry Article The Defining Series: Well Testing Fundamentals
Well and formation tests, which entail taking measurements while flowing fluids from the reservoir, are conducted at all stages in the life of oil and gas fields.
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Multi-well analysis and interpretation
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Geophysics: solutions provided for reservoir definition, reservoir monitoring, drilling solution, reservoir evaluation, and reservoir imaging
- Design and process borehole seismic surveys from basic rig source to 3D, and time lapse vertical seismic profiles (VSPs)
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Geology
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Acoustics
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- Provide geophysical parameter (P-wave, δ and ε)
- Aid in completion design, and
- Fracture evaluation
Petrophysics
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- Integration with core data
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Geomechanics
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- Planning for horizontal wells
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- Analysis of production and injection effects on the subsurface stability and reservoir quality
Production and completion
- Flow profiling
- Flow rate estimation
- Water production/high water cut
- Designing multistage and single-stage completion for initial stimulation
- Analyze hydraulic fractures in unconventional reservoirs and complex stress regimes
- Well interventions to enhance the well performance
Well integrity
- Optimizing completion design and lowering development costs
- Reservoir monitoring
- Diagnosing production problems
- Monitoring results of stimulation
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