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The Centre of Petroleum Studies at Imperial College London has been involved in research in well test analysis since 1997, sponsored mainly by consortia of oil companies. The work has already resulted in significantly improved understanding of complex well test behaviours, particularly in gas condensate and volatile oil reservoirs; in reservoirs with complex geological features; and in multilateral wells. The ability to interpret well tests has also been greatly enhanced by the development of a stable deconvolution algorithm which has now been implemented in all dominant well test analysis softwares. The aim of this proposal is to expand the work performed to-date in three main areas: (1) deconvolution of pressure and data from interfering wells in developed reservoirs (multiwell deconvolution) (2) analysis of shale oil and gas well production data (from nano-scale to Darcy-scale) (3) well test analysis in complex systems The objective is to develop new, practical analysis methods for calculating well and reservoir parameters, for estimating reserves, and for predicting and improving well productivity in complex reservoir-fluid-well systems. Limitations and uncertainties in the analyses as a function of the data available will also be a focus of the research.

Publications

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SPE201667-MS Using Deconvolution to Estimate Unknown Well Production from Sparce Wellhead Pressure Data 2020
SPE195271-MS Constrained Least-Squares Multiwell Deconvolution 2019
SPE195516-MS Field Applications of Constrained Multiwell Deconvolution 2019
SPE195904-MS Application of Constrained Multiwell Deconvolution to Interfering Wells in Gas Reservoirs with Significant Pressure Depletion 2019
SPE187456-MS A Conceptual Shale Gas Model Validated by Pressure and Rate Data From the Haynesville Shale 2017
SPE180181-MS Catalogue of Well Test Responses in a Fluvial Reservoir System 2016
SPE180131-MS Upscaling WFT Permeability Data A Systematic Approach to Analyzing and Integrating Well Test Data From Wireline Formation Testers WFT 2016
SPE180158-MS Multiwell Deconvolution for Shale Gas 2016
SPE174325-MS Bilinear Flow in Horizontal Wells in a Homogeneous Reservoir: Huntington Case Study 2015
SPE174353-MS Application of Multiple Well Deconvolution Method in a North Sea Field 2015
SPE Transport in Porous Media Vol. 109, Issue 1 Multi-continuum Approach to Modelling Shale Gas Extraction 2015
SPE171519-MS Optimising Recovery in Gas Condensate Reservoirs 2014
SPE170822-MS Modeling of Induced Hydraulically Fractured Wells in Shale Reservoirs Using ‘Branched’ Fractals 2014
SPE166458-PA Multiwell deconvolution 2014
SPE170584-MS Dynamic Fault Seal Breakdown Investigation-A study of Egret Field in the North Sea 2014

PhD Theses

Title Author Yearsort ascending
Well Test Analysis of Shale Gas Wells Irina Kostyleva 2019

MSc Theses

Title Author Yearsort ascending
Analysis of Pressure Fall-Off Tests for Polymer Injection Mark Thomas 2016
A Study of Factors Impacting Multiwell Deconvolution Lezin Galibert 2016
Multiwell Deconvolution in a Gas Field Deborah Gbadebo 2015
Modelling Vertically Fractured Well in a Low Permeability Medium-Rich Gas Condensate Reservoir Patrick Pak Hang Pang 2015
Multiwell Deconvolution on Shale Gas Yit Xiang Tung 2015
Building a Catalogue of Well Test Responses in a Fluvial Reservoir System Jonathan Lloyd Walsh 2015
Uncertainty in Well-Test Interpretation and Design using Deconvolution Nor-Eddine Daoud 2015
Evaluation of High CO2 Content Produced Gas Disposal Options in a Viscous Oil Reservoir Aditya Kumar Singh 2014
Application of Multiple Well Deconvolution Method in a North Sea Field Emma Thornton 2014
Practical Methods for Predicting Hydrate Formation during Gas Well Testing in Ultra-Deep Water Alex Lowden 2014
Evaluation of the Impact of Scale on the Well Test Behaviour of Fissured Reservoirs (Single-Phase) Abdulmajeed Lafi Almutairi 2014