Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Geologists
• Petro-physicists
• Reservoir Engineers
• Supervisors
• Managers involved in formation evaluation, reserve estimation and general reservoir engineering
• Directly involved in well test operations
• Dealing with service companies offering well testing

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Provide participants with a solid understanding of well testing principles, operational practices, and analysis techniques to optimize reservoir performance and make informed decisions.
• Build up confidence throughout:

• Comprehensive overview of practical well testing operations
• Typical offshore/onshore equipment set-up with stress on safety precautions
• Spending significant time on test design and performance prediction
• Step-by-step introduction in well test analysis and methodology
• Demo of commercial software of well test interpretation

• Benefits of attending this course:

• Select appropriate test equipment for a given well testing task
• Review the testing procedures and evaluate operations safety
• Understand the theory and practical application of well test analysis
• Use commercial software for well test interpretation
• Design a well test

DAY 1

Introduction to Well Testing

• Pre-test
• Purpose and types of well tests (DST, Build-up, Drawdown, Interference, etc.)
• Applications of well testing in reservoir evaluation
• Overview of reservoir flow regimes
• Test Design considerations and objectives
• Reasons for well testing
• Methodology of well testing

• Initial perturbation
• Constant pressure vs. constant rate condition
• How to deal with wellbore storage
• Types of well test sequences

• Surface and downhole equipment overview
• Pre-Job planning and test objectives
• Well test design (Duration, Flow Periods, Shut-ins)
• Flow measurement techniques (Separator, Multiphase Meter)
• Safety protocols during testing
• Case Study

DAY 2

Well Testing Operations and Planning

• Daily Quiz
• Well testing operations

• Equipment checks
• Well control
• Perforating
• Fluid's behavior and sampling operations
• Stimulation in well testing

• Test execution procedures
• Data acquisition systems and Real-Time Monitoring
• Safety in well testing operations
• Job responsibilities
• Testing equipment and setup
• Surface testing equipment

• Onshore and offshore testing operations
• Pressure gauges
• Gas, oil and water flow measurement
• Subsea equipment

• Surface equipment setup and instrumentation
• Test design
• Overview of testing tools and technologies
• Equipment calibration and maintenance
• Case study

DAY 3

Data Acquisition and Analysis

• Daily Quiz
• Downhole hardware options

• How the well test data is gathered
• Testing while drilling
• Testing after completion of drilling
• Traditional versus wireline formation testing

• Interpreting well test data

• ­Analyzing pressure transient data
• Identifying reservoir properties (permeability, porosity)
• Understanding skin effect and wellbore storage

• Interpretation approach

• Superposition concept
• Diagnosing near wellbore conditions, reservoir behavior and boundaries
• Deconvolution
• Dealing with limited reservoirs
• Predicting the well behavior

• Data collection methods
• Pressure and flow rate measurements
• Case Studies and Practical Applications

• Real-world examples of well testing
• ­Problem-solving scenarios
• ­Group discussions on findings

DAY 4

Advanced Test Analysis and Field Cases

• Daily Quiz
• Regulatory and Environmental Considerations

• ­Compliance with industry regulations
• ­Environmental impact assessments
• Use of software for data analysis

• Interference and Pulse Testing
• Horizontal and multilayer well testing
• Well test interpretation in fractured and heterogeneous reservoirs
• Gas well testing specifics
• Interpretation of multi-rate and multi-phase tests
• Field case studies and complex test scenarios

DAY 5

Data Integration, Reporting and Operational Challenges

• Integrating well test results into reservoir models
• Use of well test data in reservoir simulation
• Test reporting and communication of results
• Operational challenges (leaks, tool failures, data gaps)
• Decision-making based on test results
• Course summary and key takeaways
• Presentation: summary of results and recommendations
• Individual action plan development
• Post-test