Title
Harmonic pulse testing for well performance monitoring
Author
Fokker, P.A.
Salina Borello, E.
Verga, F.
Viberti, D.
Publication year
2018
Abstract
Harmonic testing was developed as a form of well testing that can be applied during ongoing production or injection operations, as a pulsed signal is superimposed on the background pressure trend. Thus no interruption of well and reservoir production is needed before and during the test. If the pulsed pressure and rate signal analysis is performed in the frequency domain, strong similarity exists between the derivative of the harmonic response function versus the harmonic period and the pressure derivative versus time, typical of conventional well testing. Thus the interpretation of harmonic well tests becomes very straightforward. In this paper, we present the analytical models for the most commonly encountered well and reservoir scenarios and we validate the model for horizontal wells against real data of a harmonic test performed on a gas storage well in Italy. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
Subject
2015 Geo
PG - Petroleum Geosciences
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Geological Survey Netherlands
Geosciences
2015 Energy
Gas storage
Harmonic testing
Horizontal well
Well performance monitoring
Well testing
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2017.12.053
TNO identifier
784884
ISSN
0920-4105
Source
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 162, 446-459
Document type
article