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DIMENSIONLESS SUPERPOSITION FUNCTION: FLOW PERIOD 3<br />

Figure 5-97. H-14/Forty-Niner Claystone First Buildup Dimensionless Horner Plot with INTERPRET Simulation<br />

simulation is entirely consistent with the effects <strong>of</strong> an<br />

overpressure skin.<br />

The log-log plot <strong>of</strong> the SBU data is shown in<br />

Figure 5-98. Overpressure-skin effects are once<br />

again evident in the late-time pressure derivative.<br />

The simulation shown was generated by lNTERPRl3<br />

using a single-porosity model and a transmissivity <strong>of</strong><br />

6.9 x ft2/day (Table 5-2). With the assumed<br />

parameter values listed above, the skin factor for this<br />

simulation is about 3.3, comparable to the value<br />

obtained from the FBU analysis.<br />

A log-log early-time plot <strong>of</strong> the rising-head slug-test<br />

data is shown in Figure 599, along with the best-fit<br />

type curve. The fit is quite good until near the end,<br />

when the observed data oscillate for an unknown<br />

reason. The type-curve fit shown provides a<br />

transmissivity estimate <strong>of</strong> 3.0 x 10-2 ft2/day<br />

(Table 5-2), which is slightly less than half <strong>of</strong> the<br />

values provided by the FBU and SBU analyses. A<br />

slightly different type-curve fit might have been<br />

indicated had the late-time data been better<br />

behaved.<br />

The static formation pressure for the Forty-niner<br />

claystone is difficult to estimate because <strong>of</strong> the<br />

overpressure-skin effects present during the buildup<br />

tests, and because <strong>of</strong> the nonideal behavior during<br />

the latter portion <strong>of</strong> the slug test. The static formation<br />

pressure must be less than the final pressure<br />

measured at the end <strong>of</strong> the SBU, 65.5 psia. The slugtest<br />

analysis relied on a static formation pressure<br />

estimate <strong>of</strong> 62 psia, although a reasonably good fit<br />

was also obtained using an estimate <strong>of</strong> 65 psia.<br />

Considering that the transducer during these tests<br />

was set 362.9 ft deep, that the transducer measured<br />

an atmospheric pressure <strong>of</strong> 12 psia before testing<br />

began, and that the borehole contained brine with a<br />

specific gravity <strong>of</strong> 1.2, 65 psia corresponds to a static<br />

formation pressure <strong>of</strong> 71 psig at the midpoint <strong>of</strong> the<br />

claystone 398 ft deep. This value is reliably a<br />

maximum.<br />

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