Paper: Pulse Testing State of the Art

Pulse Testing was developed in the early 1960's for the purpose of obtaining reservoir description between wells. Since then, several papers have been published advancing this technology to the point where it can now be considered conventional well testing. This paper reviews the advances that have been made in pulse testing technology and presents the state of the art of pulse testing as it is being used today. A method of design and analysis of pulse tests is presented along with example applications. Some of the topics considered are enhancement of pressure response by filtering, desuperposition of data, effects of well bore storage and skin, unequal rate pulses, and limitations of pulse testing.