Pressure Transient Formation and Well Testing
Convolution, Deconvolution and Nonlinear Estimation

Fikri J. Kuchuk (Author), Mustafa Onur (Author), Florian Hollaender (Author)

9780444529534

Hardback, published 4 August 2010

416 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.814 kg

This reference presents a comprehensive description of flow through porous media and solutions to pressure diffusion problems in homogenous, layered, and heterogeneous reservoirs. It covers the fundamentals of interpretation techniques for formation tester pressure gradients, and pretests, multiprobe and packer pressure transient tests, including derivative, convolution, and pressure-rate and pressure-pressure deconvolution. Emphasis is placed on the maximum likelihood method that enables one to estimate error variances in pressure data along with the unknown formation parameters.

1 Convolution. 2 Deconvolution. 3 Nonlinear Parameter Estimation

Subject Areas: Petroleum technology [THFP], Geology & the lithosphere [RBG], Mining industry [KNAT]