A sandface pressure response drop to unit-rate production in the same or remote well.


It further splits into (see Fig. 1):

DTRpressure response to unit-rate production in the same well
CTRpressure response to unit-rate production in the remote well



Fig. 1. A sample of typical DTR (dash line) and CTR (circles) for a 2-well system presented on PTA type-library log-log plot.

(pressure drop P in blue and log-derivative P' in red). One well is producing at unit-rate and the other one is shut-in.

In this case, LTRs on both UTRs are the same because two wells are sharing the same reservoir volume.


The source of UTRs are:

Numerical pressure simulationsNumerical flow simulations Deconvolution of long-term PDG data recordsPressure Interference Testing


The most common use of UTRs is to assemble a Pressure Interference Matrix and perform:

Qualitative analyses of the reservoir propertiesQualitative analysis with Unit-rate Transient Response Model (UTRM)


See Also


Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Well Testing / Pressure Testing

Pressure Interference Matrix ] [ Pressure Test Model ]