Well test imaging
CA 2183113 C · Owner: Suncor Energy Inc. · Inventors: Slevinsky, Bruce A.
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An improved method is provided for establishing the location and orientation of the boundaries surrounding a reservoir and creating an image thereof. A conventional well test is performed on a well establishing measures of the well's, pressure response as a function of the rate of pressure change in the reservoir over time. Conventional techniques may be used to determine measures of the radius of investigation. A plurality of radii of investigation are determined as a function of time. A calculated response for an infinite and radially extending well are the measured response are compared as a ratio. Variation of the ratio from unity is indicative of the presence of a boundary at that …
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- Filed August 12, 1996 and granted September 18, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 12, 2016.
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