Beauheim 1987 - Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - U.S. Department of ...
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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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