The purpose of this paper is to give engineers responsible for making forecasts and determining reserves for numerous operated or nonoper-ated wells some guidelines and fundamental concepts to allow them to make these forecasts and determinations more quickly and accurately.

Keywords:
reserves evaluation, resource in place estimate, equation, backpressure curve, type curve, production control, production data, decline equation, mechanism, depletion
Subjects:
Drillstem/well testing, Estimates of resource in place, Flow in porous media, Formation Evaluation & Management, Pressure transient analysis, Production forecasting, Reserves Evaluation, Reservoir Fluid Dynamics, Well & Reservoir Surveillance and Monitoring, Well performance, inflow performance
Copyright 1996, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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