METHOD FOR PRODUCING IMAGES OF RESERVOIR BOUNDARIES

摘要

A method of producing images of the limits of a geologic reservoir from measurements of fluid pressure in a well controlled to produce from the reservoir at a constant flow rate. The measurements are taken over a period of time, which includes initiation of well flow and recorded in a plot of well pressure v. time. The method includes detecting abrupt changes in slope of the pressure v. time function, where each abrupt change signifies the arrival of a primary shock wave at a discrete section of a boundary limit of the reservoir; and calculating the minimum radial distance to the discrete section from the well bore as a function of wave travel time. The changes in the slope of the pressure v. time function are used to calculate the curvature of the boundary at the minimum radial distance. The angular disposition of each discrete section or reservoir limit is then adjusted about the origin and adjustably re-positioned on its point of contact with its associated distance radial limits to provide with the other discrete sections a simulation of the reservoir boundary. Observations from multiple wells reduce any ambiguity in the interpretation.