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It can be applied to any fluid production: water, oil or gas or total production.
It does not involve the knowledge of formation pressure or bottom-hole pressure and is solely based on production/injection history data.
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| Arps | conventional reservoirs |
| Duong | tight gas, shales |
| Power Law | tight gas, shales |
| Multi-segment | wide-range |
| Neural - Network | wide-range |
The first historically and the most popular decline curve popular Decline Curve Analysis methodology in conventional reservoirs is Arps decline model:
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| Exponential Production Decline | Fig. 2. |
| Hyperbolic Production Decline | Fig. 3. |
| Harmonic Production Decline |
See Also
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Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Production / Subsurface Production / Field Study & Modelling / Production Analysis / Analytical Production Forecast
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