CA2057481A1 - Method for Characterizing Subterranean Reservoirs - Google Patents

Method for Characterizing Subterranean Reservoirs

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CA2057481A1
CA2057481A1 CA2057481A CA2057481A CA2057481A1 CA 2057481 A1 CA2057481 A1 CA 2057481A1 CA 2057481 A CA2057481 A CA 2057481A CA 2057481 A CA2057481 A CA 2057481A CA 2057481 A1 CA2057481 A1 CA 2057481A1
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Michael H. Stein
Francis M. Carlson
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B49/00—Testing the nature of borehole walls; Formation testing; Methods or apparatus for obtaining samples of soil or well fluids, specially adapted to earth drilling or wells
    • E21B49/008—Testing the nature of borehole walls; Formation testing; Methods or apparatus for obtaining samples of soil or well fluids, specially adapted to earth drilling or wells by injection test; by analysing pressure variations in an injection or production test, e.g. for estimating the skin factor

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  • Production Of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixture For Refining Petroleum (AREA)

Abstract

A novel method for characterizing multilayer subterranean reservoirs comprising forming a single layer reservoir model representative of the flow parameters of the multilayer reservoir and developing a set of predicted flow rates from a numerical reservoir simulator. The predicted flow rates are scaled to form a set of dimensionless flow rates. Differences between actual reservoir flow rates and predicted flow rates obtained from the dimensionless flow rates, are minimized automatically to obtain estimates of flow parameters for each layer of the multilayer reservoir. Additionally, for a given set of flow parameters, the optimum injection and production well patterns as well as injection and production well operating conditions can be determined for producing hydrocarbon from the multilayer reservoir.
CA002057481A 1991-01-31 1991-12-12 Method for characterizing subterranean reservoirs Expired - Fee Related CA2057481C (en)

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