What is BHP?

The pressure, usually measured in pounds per square inch (psi), at the bottom of the hole. This pressure
may be calculated in a static, fluid-filled wellbore with the equation:

BHP = MW * Depth * 0.052

What is Flowing Well?

an oil or water well from which the product flows without pumping due to natural or artificially supplied
subterranean pressure from air or other gas

If the well is producing water along with oil/gas then it may not be proper to apply any correlation factor
to calculate FBHP. Because during flowing condition well is in dynamic condition, liquid properties may
change considerably within short span of time. Main reason being water production is intermittent and
produces as slug. This can change the oil/gas gravity to some extent, resulting inaccurate FBHP
calculation.

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What is IPR OPR?

IPR = inflow performance relation

VLP = vertical lift performance

It is the graph of pressure difference versus oil rate

IPR depicts how much amount of reservoir fluid can flow when BHP is being reduced. The difference
between reservoir pressure and BHP is called as drawdown. As drawdown increases the flow rate also
increases. If we see the IPR curve for some time it is straight line and the point at which the straight line
is deflected that point is the bubble point. From there gas will flow along with oil.

VLP curve depict at what BHP the fluid flow in the tubing. The point at which both the curves meet is the
pressure at which the optimum production is obtain.

Various test

Potential test: in which we measure the amount of oil and gas produced during given condition.

Gas oil test: the volume of gas produced with oil during production. It is because of bubble point.

Potential test: in this test both potential and BHP test is combined

BHP test: used to determine the pressure acting at the bottom.

 1. Drawdown test: Involves measuring the variation of sandface pressure
with
time while the well is flowing. For a drawdown test, the well must have been
shut in
to attain average pressure before production commences for the test. The rate
and
pressure profiles during drawdown test are in Fig 1.1.

2. Injectivity Test: This is the counterpart of a drawdown test and involves

measuring the variation of sandface pressure with time while fluid is being
injected into the well. The rate and pressure profiles during drawdown test are in

3. Buildup Test: Involves measuring the variation of sandface pressure with time
while well is shut-in. The well must have flowed before shut-in. Figure 1.3 shows
the rate and pressure profiles during the flow and buildup periods. Buildup tests
are
more common and will be the main subject of our discussion.

4. Falloff Test: This is the counterpart of buildup test and it involves measuring
the
variation of sandface pressure with time while well is shut-in. In this case, some
fluid must have been injected into the well before shutting. Figure 1.4 shows the
rate and pressure profiles during the injection and falloff periods.

5. Interference Test: Unlike the first four tests (drawdown, injectivity, buildup,
falloff) which are tests involving only one well (single well tests), the
interference
test involves the use of more than one well (multiple well test). During
interference tests, pressure changes due to production or injection or shut-in at
an
active well is monitored at an observation well. The active well and the
observation well are shown in Fig 1.5. Only one active well is required, but there
could be more than one observation well.

GLR = Gas Liquid Ratio

mmscfpd = Million Standard Cubic Feet Per Day

1. During Initial testing period if you have multi bean study (Flow After Flow Test, Isochronal Test,
Modified Isochronar Test) data with you then interpret the data,calculate C and n parameter for the well
using Rawlins and Schellhardtequation. This is popularly known as gas deliverability equation.

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PR = Average Reservoir Pressure

Pwf = Flowing Bottom Hole Pressure

qg = Gas rate

Assume that C and n remains constant during the life time of the well. Keep on changing Pwf and
calculate PR for each Pwf.

This is very crude technique since C and nare the parameter that depends on too many factors and
changes frequently during life time of well. But for thumb rule purpose assuming them constant wont do
any harm. Calculated average reservoir pressure from this approach will not deviate much from actual
value

2. If you have initial reservoir pressure data, more than 3 flowing bottom hole pressure data (FBHP) and
cumulative production datacorresponding to FBHP, inthat casecalculate z (gas deviation factor) value for
each FBHP data and plot Pwf/z vs Gp (cumulativeproduction data).

On the same figure plot initial reservoir pressure/z value. Draw a line parallel toPwf/z line throughinitial
pressure/z point. Read average reservoir pressure corresponding to each FBHP from this parallel line. An
example of this I'm attaching below

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3. For exact calculation there exists lots of algorithms to determine average reservoir without shutting
the well/s. But one particular paper of Ram. G. Agarwal ("Direct Method of Estimating Average Reservoir
Pressure for Flowing Oil and Gas Wells"-http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/135804-MS)is of particular interest. In
this paper the author derived a novel technique to determine Average Reservoir Pressure using FBHP
data. The beauty of the approach lies in its theoretical background and is very robust.