Abstract
Numerous waterflooding projects are under way throughout the world for increased recovery. Water injection tests of oil zones are frequently undertaken during the planning phase of waterfloods. Analysis of the bottomhole pressure data recorded during these tests not only provides similar information to that obtained from production tests concerning the well and the reservoir characteristics but also allows the mobility ratio between the injected and resident fluids to be determined.
Conventionally, pressure fall-off test data is analyzed using semilog plot of bottomhole pressure versus time. This paper is the extension of the Tiab’s Direct Synthesis Technique10-15 to pressure injection and Fall-off tests in water injection wells.
Direct synthesis is a transient pressure analysis technique10- 15 , which uses log-log plot of pressure and pressure derivative vs. time. Thus, different straight line portions indicating different flow regions are directly analyzed. Direct synthesis is very useful in conditions of short and early time pressure data missing tests. It also verifies the results since it uses more than one equation for the estimation of reservoir parameters such as permeability, wellbore storage coefficient, and skin factor.
Finally, field examples of pressure falloff analysis are presented to illustrate use the direct synthesis and results are compared with those from type curves and conventional semilog analysis.
