Drilling and Reservoir EngineeringWell Test Design and Pressure Transient Analysis
A well test is one of the few measurements that sees the reservoir in situ over hundreds of metres, yet tests are often too short, badly sequenced or dominated by wellbore storage. Designing the test properly matters as much as interpreting it. Delegates begin with the diffusivity equation and flow regimes, then with test types: drawdown, buildup, injection, falloff, interference and drill stem tests. Log log diagnostic plots and the pressure derivative are used to identify storage, skin, radial flow, boundaries, dual porosity and fractured well behaviour. Analytical models are matched in software and checked against specialised plots. Gas well tests, deliverability and non Darcy flow are covered next. The programme ends on test design: duration, gauge selection and safety. Delegates leave able to design a test, interpret it and report permeability, skin and reservoir limits.
Course objectives
- Explain the diffusivity equation and its solutions for common flow regimes
- Select the test type suited to an appraisal or surveillance objective
- Diagnose flow regimes using log log and derivative plots
- Estimate permeability, skin and average pressure from buildup data
- Recognise boundary, dual porosity and hydraulically fractured responses
- Analyse gas well tests including deliverability and non Darcy effects
- Design test duration, gauges and sequence to meet objectives
Who should attend
- Reservoir engineers
- Well test and production engineers
- Petroleum engineers in appraisal teams
- Petrophysicists integrating dynamic data
- Regulatory engineers reviewing test reports
Course outline
- 01Fundamentals of transient flow
- 02Test types and objectives
- 03Superposition and buildup analysis
- 04Log log and derivative diagnostics
- 05Wellbore storage and skin
- 06Boundaries and heterogeneous reservoirs
- 07Fractured and horizontal wells
- 08Gas well testing
- 09Test design and operations
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 to 16 October 2026 | Gaborone, Botswana | Classroom | R19,950 per delegate | |
| 30 November to 4 December 2026 | Lusaka, Zambia | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | |
| 22 to 26 February 2027 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | |
| 15 to 19 March 2027 | Online | Online | R8,500 per delegate |
Well Test Design and Pressure Transient Analysis
From R8,500