A value of flowrate normalised by pressure difference between formation pressure and bottom hole pressure:
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| flowrate (the specification of which may differcould be sandface or surface , see below) | ||||
| formation pressure | ||||
| bottom hole pressure at sandface |
It is one of the key metrics of well performance.
The definition of flowrate
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Overall concept is applicable to both producers and injectors but can be split into specific definitionsexplicitly defined as:
Productivity Index of producer | Injectivity Index of injector | ||||||||||||||||
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| production rate |
| injection rate |
So when someone mention Productivity Index of injector it's normally meant Injectivity Index.
The Productivity Index concept The PI concept also applies to aquifer expansion:
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| volumetric water inflow rate from aquifer into hydrocarbon reservoir at time moment
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| formation pressure in hydrocarbon reservoir at time moment
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| formation pressure in aquifer at time moment |
In practice, the Productivity Index is usually not known at all times due to scarce measurements of formation pressure and bottom hole pressure.
It started changing with advent of Permanent Downhole Gauges (PDG).
When assessing formation pressure it is often accepted that reservoir takes the same time to stabilise the flow after any change in well flow conditions and the stabilisation time is assessed based on the well tests analysis.
Although, this is not strictly true and the flow stabilisation time depends on well-formation contact and reservoir property variation around a given well.
This is also compromised in multi-layer formations with cross-layer communication.
The best practise in this case is to perform proper Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) or use deconvolution.
See Also
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Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Production / Subsurface Production / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Production Technology
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[ Sandface Productivity Index ] [ Surface Productivity Index ] [ Specific Productivity Index ] [ Injectivity Index ] [ Drainarea Drain-area Productivity Index (Jr) ]
[ Productivity Index @model ] [ Dupuit PI @model ]