Illustrated Practical Guide to Well Testing

Eghbal Motaei is a distinguished Petroleum Engineer with over two decades of specialized experience in the oil and gas sector, focusing on well testing and reservoir engineering. His extensive background at PCSB (Petronas) has led to significant contributions in various high-impact projects, including resource assessment and field development planning. Motaei's expertise encompasses providing well test proposals and analyses for both exploration and appraisal wells, as well as offering technical support during test operations.Raj Deo Tewari is Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai and Visiting Professor of Practice at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India. He was Group Technical Authority and Custodian Reservoir Engineering in Petronas Malaysia and later he worked as Chief Scientist R&D, Reservoir Technology in Group Technology & Commercialization Petronas. He is an accomplished reservoir engineering professional with more than four decades of experience in the upstream industry. . Dr. Tewari is coauthor of the book Petroleum Fluid Phase Behavior (CRC Press) and has published more than 160 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings.Jang Hyun Lee is Associate Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. Prior to joining UTP, he worked for Cairn India, Schlumberger, Qatar Petroleum, SK Energy, Cuulong Joint Operating Company, and Korea Petroleum Association. He has specialties in well test analysis, reservoir simulation, hydraulic fractured well evaluation, and economic analysis. He received an MS in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Mineral and Petroleum Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.

• Introduction: Evolution of Well Testing.1. Near Wellbore Phenomenon. 2. Reservoir Response. 3. Late time Response and Boundaries. 4. Long term tests. 5. Operational aspects of well testing. 6. Green Testing. 7. Well test applications in Carbon Capture and Storage. 8. Machine Learning in well testing. 9. Well Testing in IOR and EOR stage. 10. Inter-well connectivity. 11. Wireline Formation Tester Analysis. 12. Data Scale. 13. Well Testing Data Quality Assurance. 14. Frequently asked questions in Interpretation and Design. 15. Infinite-Acting Radial Flow. 16. Flowrate Data Handling. 17. Reservoir Boundaries and Radius of Investigation (Drainage Area). 18. Wellbore Storage and Skin Effect. 19. Pseudo-Steady State (PSS) Flow and Average Reservoir Pressure. 20. Buildup Tests and Desuperposition. 21. Hydraulically Fractured Wells. 22. Bottomhole Pressure Data Handling and Regression. 23. Gas Well Test Analysis. 24. Horizontal Wells. 25. Special topics and Flow Regimes.