Well Testing and Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA)

Overview

📘 Course Description

This comprehensive course delivers practical and theoretical knowledge on planning, designing, executing, and analyzing well tests. Participants learn the fundamental and advanced principles of pressure transient analysis, interpretation of test data, and application of well testing to reservoir characterization and production optimization. The course emphasizes avoiding common pitfalls in well test design and maximizing the value of acquired data.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Understand the objectives and types of well tests (DSTs, buildup, drawdown, injection tests)
✅ Design effective well tests considering operational constraints and reservoir objectives
✅ Acquire and quality-check well test data
✅ Apply diagnostic techniques and pressure transient analysis
✅ Interpret test results to estimate permeability, skin, reservoir boundaries, and heterogeneity
✅ Integrate well test analysis into reservoir modeling

👥 Who Should Attend

Reservoir engineers
Production engineers
Petroleum engineers
Well test supervisors & data acquisition engineers
Geoscientists involved in reservoir characterization
Technical staff working on well performance and reservoir studies

🗂️ Training Format

✅ In-depth lectures on theory and field practices
✅ Worked examples and exercises on real well test datasets
✅ Diagnostic plots & interpretation workshops
✅ Well test planning sessions with design software (Saphir, PanSystem, or equivalents)
✅ Group discussions and Q&A

📅 Day-by-Day Agenda with Time Breaks

📅 Day 1: Fundamentals of Well Testing

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome, Introductions & Course Overview
09:00 – 10:30	Why Perform Well Tests? Objectives & Types
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Flow Regimes & Pressure Transient Basics
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Governing Equations & Concepts (Darcy, diffusivity)
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Wellbore Storage, Skin, and Damage Mechanisms

📅 Day 2: Well Test Design

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Data Requirements & Pre-Test Planning
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Designing Drawdown & Buildup Tests
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Drill Stem Test (DST) Design & Execution
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Workshop: Designing a Well Test for a Clastic Reservoir

📅 Day 3: Data Acquisition & Quality Control

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Test Execution: Tools & Downhole Gauges
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Surface & Bottomhole Measurements
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Data Quality Control: Noise, Superposition, Errors
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Case Study: Data QC on Actual Well Test Data

📅 Day 4: Pressure Transient Analysis Techniques

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Diagnostic Plots (Log-log, Semi-log, Horner)
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Analytical Solutions for Infinite & Bounded Reservoirs
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Radial, Linear, and Spherical Flow Analysis
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Workshop: Manual Interpretation of Buildup Test Data

📅 Day 5: Advanced Interpretation & Integration

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Composite & Dual Porosity Reservoirs
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Boundary Effects, Channeling & Faults
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Integrating Well Test Results into Reservoir Models
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Final Case Study: End-to-End Design & Interpretation Exercise + Certificate Ceremony

📦 Materials Provided

✅ Printed & digital course manual
✅ Worksheets for test design and interpretation
✅ Diagnostic plot templates
✅ Sample well test data for exercises
✅ Certificate of Completion

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,950