Outline

• What is Interference test?

• What can be known by the test?
• How we do Interference test?
• Reservoir properties are usually determined in situ by indirect
measurements of two variables :1)well flow rate
2)well pressure

• A disturbance is introduced into the reservoir by changing one of the

two variables (usually flow rate), and its effect on the other variable
(usually pressure) is monitored.
• When the flow rate is changed
and the pressure response is
measured in the same well, the
test is called a "single-well test”.
• Examples: drawdown, buildup,
injectivity, falloff, and step rate
tests.
• When the flow rate is changed in
one well and the pressure
response is measured in another
well, the test is called a
"multiple-well test.“
• Examples: interference and pulse
tests.
• The principle of multiple-well testing can be applied not only between
offsetting wells but also between various sets of perforations in the
same wellbore.

• Multiple-well tests between offsetting wells determine the reservoir

properties areally and are sometimes called "horizontal" or "areal"
tests.

• Tests that are run between various sets of perforations in the same
wellbore usually determine the vertical permeability and are called
"vertical" tests. (They often called Multiple-well test)
Interference Test
• Multiple-well tests (i.e. Interference Test , Pulse test) are used to
establish communication between wells and determine the interwell
reservoir properties.

• Multiple-well tests are more sensitive to reservoir heterogeneity than

single-well tests. Therefore, attempts have been made to use
interference and pulse tests to obtain reservoir descriptions.

• Interference testing is the oldest form of multiple-well tests

 Objectives
1. Determine whether two or more wells are in pressure
communication.
2. When Communication is exists , provide estimates of average
Permeability(K) and the average storage capacity.
3. Investigate the directional properties of Permeability(Anisotropy).
• Interference test involves several wells.
• The well where the flow rate is changed is known as “Active Well”.
• The well where the pressure is measured is knows as “Observation well”.
• Observation well has a pressure guage to record Pressure.
• Also the observation well is shut is during Pressure measurements.
Magnitude of Pressure response and time required to observe the
response depends on:
Reservoir rock
Reservoir fluid properties
Sensitivity of pressure recording device
(i.e. The SPIDR® gauge has a maximum resolution of 0.01 psi)

There are two practical consequences in measuring pressure response:

1. Measured signal is weak
2. Signal is observed after a delay
 Procedure:
Step-1
Estimate the time required to detect a measurable pressure response at the
observation well.
• The reservoir and fluid properties must be known or estimated
Step-2
• Select the type of pressure monitoring equipment to be used on the
observation well
• Interference tests may require several days.
• The duration of the test can be minimized by utilizing equipment capable of
detecting small pressure changes; i.e. a high resolution gauge

• The test time may also be shortened by increasing the size of the rate change in
the active well.
Step-3
• The procedure to determine a specific pressure response at an observation
well from a rate change at an active well requires use of the Exponential-
integral curve.
• The three dimensionless terms from this curve that must be evaluated are:
• It is assumed that the reservoir has been in steady state prior to the
test.
• A log/log plot of delta-time versus delta pressure is constructed.
• Using type curve matching procedures, the dimensionless terms of
equation 2 and 3 may be evaluated for permeability and compressibility