General Information About the Testing
The «SIAM Welltest» complex IT system was tested by the specialists of LLC "Bashneft-Petrotest" from 15.07.2020 to 15.08.2020. According to the results, the capability of «SIAM Welltest» to carry out stream processing and pressure transient analysis design was confirmed.
Evaluation Stages
Testing was conducted in three stages:
- Comparative analysis of functionality against similar software programs
- Comparative analysis of data interpretation results
- Evaluation of the list of models available for interpreting and modeling pressure transient analysis
Strengths of the Software
During the test, a number of advantages were noted:
"Among the advantages, the manual tools of model matching, the interactivity with chart data, and the interference tool may be identified."
"All interpretations presented good convergence, with parameter setting error within 10%, which is acceptable and caused by visual identification of the radial flow position."
"The presence of an additional model — auto hydraulic-fracture — in comparison with the software currently in use should be mentioned, as this model is characteristic of injection wells."
Areas for Improvement
Some drawbacks to overcome were also mentioned:
"Nevertheless, some functionalities to be improved should be noted. This could enhance the «SIAM Welltest» complex IT system as a tool for pressure transient analysis processing: report generation, integration with other software programs when exporting interpretation results, numerical models, and recovery data analysis functionality."
Testing Outcomes
On the basis of the tests it was concluded that «SIAM Welltest» possesses all necessary tools to process pressure transient analysis:
"The «SIAM Welltest» complex IT system possesses all necessary tool sets to process pressure transient analysis. It offers a new approach to interpretation based on nonlinear regression. During the whole testing period there were no malfunctions and no unexpected application shutdowns. Comparative data processing showed good convergence of the obtained results."
