Abstract:Recent developments in the deployment of distributed pressure measurement devices in horizontal wells carry the promise to lead to a new, cheap and reliable way of monitoring production and reservoir performance. We theoretically examine the identifiability of reservoir parameters from distributed pressure measurements in the well. The wellbore and near-wellbore are described by semi-analytical steady state models, and a gradient-based inversion method is applied to estimate the permeability of layers that are… Show more
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