Surface Well Testing

Well Testing is a set of planned activities to enable us to establish the properties and characteristics of a well behavior through data acquisition. Production/Injection well testing is a routine activity in the oil and gas industry and is key in effective monitoring or health-check of the state of our wells. Since this activity is routinely based, we constantly lose sight of the essentials of a quality well test especially in good data acquisition practice, overtime.

It is instructive to note, that almost all the decisions about any well performance both in the field and at the support team from office will largely depend on the robustness of the acquired data during these production well test operations.

Some of the challenges of an effective well test campaign is that key elements for a good well test campaign are not highlighted to the team, especially the field operators. This training course will highlight these essentials and proffer an improvement system as well as a sustainable process for a high performing team in well test design and execution. To close the loop, a basic introduction to well test interpretation will be provided. This will ensure those acquiring the data at the field are in sync with the office support staff in terms of efficient well test execution and objectives alignment.

This training course will feature:

Overview of Surface Production Well Testing

Business Process for Well testing design and Execution – Challenges & solutions

Managing well testing operation in deep-water environment

Well test data acquisition, verification and validation process

Importance of team alignment (especially within the domain experts) for good well tests campaign

What are the Goals?

The goal of this course will focus on the following objectives:

Understand the reasons why we carryout well test

Design a well test programme that satisfy the business-driver

Make appropriate business inferences using the acquired well test data

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

Carryout well test with clear understanding of the best practice

Understand the business process specific to your asset

Recognize what to watch for in a quality well test data acquisition

Develop asset-specific execution plan

Provide first-line well test interpretation

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Production Operators

Field Production Personnel and Supervisors

Production Engineers

Asset Managers and Senior Managers

Asset Support Engineers

Process Engineers

Reservoir Engineers

Planning Engineers

Metering Staff

Production Accountants

Day One: Overview of Well Testing

Principles of Well Testing

Assessing participants level of awareness in well testing

Basic Overview of Well Testing Processes

Case Study of Well Testing

Defining asset-specific objective of well testing

Day Two: Well Test Business Process Embedment

Well Test programme design

Key Domain Experts for Successful Well Testing

Standard Well Test Workflow

Real-time Technology in Well Testing

Defining asset-specific business process for Well Testing

Day Three: Surface Well Testing in Deepwater Environment

Highlights of Deepwater Production Operations

Well Testing in Deepwater Environment

Challenges of Well Test in Deepwater

Managing Challenges of Well Test in Deepwater

Review of experiences

Day Four: Fundamentals of Well Test Interpretation

Introduction to Well Test interpretation

Theories behind Well Test Interpretation

Common Tools Required

Limit of inferences and application

Best Practice in Well Test interpretation

Day Five: Performance Review

Course Review

Case Study

Assessment of Participants

Feedback to Participants

Recap

Certificate

On successful completion of this training course, Certificate will be awarded to the delegates