Although the book is clearly targeted at petroleum engineers, the approach taken by the authors will no doubt find favour with practitioners in other areas of fluid flow in porous media, such as hydrology and the flow of pollutants. Scattered throughout the book are worked examples of the use of the methods described in the text. It also contains extensive appendices on permeability, application of Laplace transforms to flow equations valid for single and multi-layered systems, convolution and deconvolution, dimensionless parameters and P-theorems, and physical and thermodynamic properties of gases. This book should appeal to students as well as practitioners in industry; many in the latter group may have benefited before from formal exposure to the underlying theory and its limitations in real reservoir environments.

Contents:

• Introduction to Well Testing
• Basic Concepts and Equations of Flow in Porous Media
• Solutions to the Diffusivity Equation
• Pressure Drawdown Analysis
• Pressure Build Up Analysis
• Type Curves
• Gas Well Testing
• Aquifer and Water Influx
• Average Pressure
• Well Testing in the Presence of Multi-Phase Flow
• Lateral Heterogeneities
• Well Interference and Pulse Testing
• Anisotropic Permeability and Its Prediction Using Well Test Interpretation
• Naturally Fractured Reservoirs — Dual Porosity/Dual Permeability Systems
• Well Test Interpretation in Hydraulically Fractured Reservoirs
• Pressure Behaviour of Injection Wells
• Partially Penetrating Wells and Slanted Wells
• Vertical Permeability Determination
• Well Testing in Stratified Reservoirs
• Horizontal Well Testing
• Pressure Analysis and Reservoir Characterization
• Well Test Design