Approximate solution for pressure behavior during a multiple rate injectivity test

摘要

The pressure response during a well test provides important information about reservoir properties, well productivity or reservoir performance. In order to have an option to replace traditional production tests, avoiding the gas flaring and increasing operational safety, injectivity test began to play an important role in the management of reservoirs. Although analytical models are able to describe injection and falloff periods, multiple rate models still need to be developed. This work presents a new formulation to compute pressure response when performing multiple rate injectivity test in a water injection well operating in an oil zone. First, the proposed formulation is compared to injection/falloff models and after a multiple rate scheme is performed. This formulation extends prior models presented in the literature. The accuracy of the proposed solution was assessed by comparison with a numerical simulator. The proposed formulation is also used to determine the reservoir equivalent permeability in any specific period of injection or shut-in.