Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geologist, petrophysicist, reservoir engineer, supervisor or manager involved in formation evaluation, reserve estimation and general reservoir engineering
• Directly involved in well test operations
• Dealing with service companies offering well testing
• A professional with basic reservoir engineering knowledge

How we build your confidence

• A comprehensive overview of practical wireline formation testing operations
• Running procedures and safety precautions to ensure successful operations and retrieval of tools
• Significant time is spent on test design and prediction runs
• Step-by-step introduction in well test analysis and methodology helps understand the functionality of specialised interpretation software
• Demonstration of commercial software for well test interpretation with practical examples

The benefits from attending

• Select appropriate test equipment for a given wireline formation testing task
• Review the testing procedures and evaluate operations safety
• Understand the theory and practical application of well test analysis
• Use commercial software for well test interpretation
• Design a well test

Topics

• Reasons for wireline formation testing, comparison with standard testing methods
• Methodology of well testing
  - Initial perturbation
  - Constant pressure vs. constant rate condition
  - Types of well test sequences, sampling and underground PVT analysis
• Downhole equipment options
  - Testing while drilling
  - Testing after completion of drilling
• Test design
• Well testing operations
  - Equipment checks and configuration
  - Well control
  - Fluids behaviour and sampling operations
• Safety in wireline formation testing operations
• Interpretation approach
  - Superposition concept
  - Diagnosing near wellbore conditions, reservoir behaviour and boundaries
  - Deconvolution and minimum tested volume concept vs. radius of investigation