Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:

• ​Explain the natural mechanisms of production of oil and gas reservoirs and discuss their related Analyze drawdown and buildup tests in oil and gas wells
• Understand the theory, applications, and practical limitations of well tests; understood the reservoir response under production injection disturbances and how to interpret a well test
• Gained knowledge on concepts to understand well transient tests in naturally fracture reservoirs; and gas wells test design and interpretation
• Understood naturally fractured carbonates and basemen reservoirs, storability, and matrix fracture porosity partition coefficients. Interference and pulse tests.
• Learn the principles of reservoir limit tests, productivity index, and calculation of horizontal and vertical permeability, DST tests, and interference tests.
• Gained skills to understand well tests in horizontal wells and horizontal fractured wells, principles of de-convolution and well tests modeling to define or recommend a well test design.
• Identify flow regimes using the log-log diagnostic plot
• Describe characteristic pressure behavior for common bounded reservoir geometries
• Identify well test data affected by various wellbore and near-wellbore phenomena
• Design a well test to meet desired objectives
• Estimate average drainage area pressure
• Analyze well tests in hydraulically fractured wells, horizontal wells, and naturally fractured reservoirs