A Comprehensive Solution for Partially Penetrating Wells with Various Reservoir Structures

This paper presents analytical solutions and simulations for pressure transient behavior of the partially penetrating wells (PPWs). The Newman’s product method was adopted to develop the basic instantaneous source functions which characterize the response of PPWs. These results were obtained based on the solution of fully penetrating wells (FPWs) and they were presented in Laplace domain. Further, several synthetic examples were provided and simulated to investigate the responses for a PPW and to analyze the effects of different parameters which support the obtained theoretical results.