Pressure difference between the current wellbore flowing pressure  and the wellbore flowing pressure  at time moment  when flowrate has changed :

\delta p (t) = p_{wf}(t_0) - p_{wf}(t)

 

Fig. 1. A sample of typical DTR (pressure drop P in blue and log-derivative P' in red) presented in log-log coordinates for PTA type-library analysis