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Summary. The combined plot of log pressure change and log derivative of pressure change with respect to superposition time as
a function of log elapsed time was first introduced by Bourdet et al. I as an aid to type-curve matching. Features that are hardly
visible on the Horner plot or are hard to distinguish because of similarities between one reservoir system and another are easier to
recognize on the pressure-derivative
plot. Once the patterns have been diagnosed on the log-log plot, specialized plots can be used
to compute reservoir parameters or the data can be matched to a type curve.
The Horner plot has been the most widely accepted means for
analyzing pressure-buildup
data since its introduction in 1951. 2
The slope of the line obtained by plotting pressure vs. log Horner
time is used to compute the reservoir permeability. (Horner time
is the log of production time plus shut-in time divided by shut-in
time.) The extension of this line to the time 1 hour after the start
of the buildup provides a means for calculating the skin factor. The
extension of this line to when the Horner time equals 1 is the extrapolated pressure used to determine the average reservoir
pressure. 3
Another widely used aid to pressure-transient analysis is the plot
of log pressure change vs. log elapsed (shut-in) time. This plot serves
two purposes. First, the data can be matched to type curves.v>
which are plots of analytically generated reservoir response patterns
for specified reservoir models. Second, the type curves can illustrate the expected trends in pressure-transient data for a large variety
of well and reservoir systems.
The visual impression afforded by the log-log presentation has
been greatly enhanced by the introduction of the pressure
derivative. 1.6,7 In practice, the derivative of the pressure change
is taken with respect to the superposition time function.s which
corrects for variations in the surface flow rate that occurred before
the flow period being analyzed. As such, it represents the slope
of the generalized Horner plot for buildup data. When the data
produce a straight line on a semilog plot, the pressure derivative
will, therefore, be constant. That is, the log-log pressure-derivative
plot will be flat for that portion of the data that can be correctly
analyzed as a straight line on the Horner plot.
Many analysts rely on the plot of log-log pressure vs.
pressure derivative to diagnose which reservoir model can
represent a given pressure-transient
data set. Patterns visible in
the log-log diagnostic and Horner plots for five frequently
encountered reservoir systems are shown in Fig. 1. The
simulated curves in Fig. 1 were generated from analytical
models. For each case, the log-log plot illustrates the features
typically seen in real data. The curves on the left represent
buildup responses; the derivatives were computed with respect
to the Horner time function. The curves on the right show
what the same examples look like on a plot of pressure vs. log
Horner time.
For each log-log plot, the upper curve is the pressure
change, ap, vs. the shut-in time, ill, and the lower curve is
the pressure change derivative, (ilp)' ill. Patterns in the
pressure derivative that are characteristic of a particular
reservoir model are shown in a different type of line that is
reproduced on the Horner plot. The portions of the derivative
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Acknowledgments
[ would like to acknowledge Schlumberger for permission to
publish this paper and to thank Joe Martin of the Schlumberger
Educational Services staff for his painstaking effort in drafting
the illustration.
.
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