The Cointerpretation of Flow Rate and Pressure Data from Permanent Downhole Gauges Using Wavelet and Data Mining Approaches
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- Abstract
- In traditional well testing, pressure or flow rate transient data are collected for a short duration. Unlike traditional well testing tools, modern permanent downhole gauges have the capability to provide continuous measurements of both pressure and flow rate for several years or longer. Thus, data from these tools are a rich source of information for well testing interpretation. However, the large volume of information also brings with it a large volume of noise. Therefore, there is the need for the analysis of a combined pressure and flow rate data model for denoising usage. Usually, reservoir engineering models start from the defining physical equations, deduce a relationship between the flow rate and pressure, and then treat remaining deviations in the data as noise. By this approach, bias can enter the data by the imposition of inappropriate physics. As an alternative approach, this study tried to start from the data, either with the aid of wavelet or data mining techniques, to construct an empirical model for the flow rate and pressure. The study investigated whether the empirical model of data pairs may provide a better way of characterizing the true reservoir response. This study first investigated wavelet methods in the identification of noisy data, and discussed the advantages and limitations of its performance in the denoising process. Then the study looked into the application of data mining techniques in constructing the empirical model. The study addressed the application of data mining both in the real time space and in the Laplace space. The data mining in the Laplace space provides an entirely new way of examining and understanding well test measurements. The Laplace space approach successfully extracted the correct pressure transient from noisy signals.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 2009 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Liu, Yang |
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| Primary advisor | Horne, Roland N. |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering |
Subjects
| Subject | School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences |
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| Genre | Thesis |
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- Liu, Yang. (2009). The Cointerpretation of Flow Rate and Pressure Data from Permanent Downhole Gauges Using Wavelet and Data Mining Approaches. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/vj238jb7693
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