Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, cilt.39, ss.5-27, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, the basic features of 3D (spatially r and z and time) interval pressure transient testing (IPTT) are described for the estimation of horizontal and vertical permeabilities and delineation of fracture and fault conductivities using the packer module and observation probe tool combination of the multiprobe wireline formation tester. Mathematical models for the pressure behavior of IPTT tests for using the packer module and the observation probes in multilayer (stratified) formations are presented. The maximum likelihood (ML) method is presented for nonlinear parameter estimation to handle uncertainty in error variances (weights) in observed data. The main advantage of the ML method over the traditional weighted least squares (WLS) is that it eliminates the trial-and-error procedure required to determine appropriate weights to be used in the WLS estimation. As shown by the examples presented in the paper, the ML method provides significant improvement in parameter estimation when working with pressure data sets of disparate orders of magnitude and noise, e.g., pressure measurements for the packer-probe and multiprobe interval tests.