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10.7 Activities 203
10.7.1 Further Reading 203
10.7.2 True/False 203
10.7.3 Exercises 204

11 Upstream Facilities 205
11.1 Onshore Facilities 205
11.2 Flash Calculation for separators 208
11.3 Pressure Rating for separators 211
11.4 single‐Phase Flow in Pipe 213
11.5 Multiphase Flow in Pipe 216
11.5.1 Modeling Multiphase Flow in Pipes 217
11.6 Well Patterns 218
11.6.1 Intelligent Wells and Intelligent Fields 219
11.7 Offshore Facilities 221
11.8 Urban Operations: The Barnett shale 224
11.9 Activities 225
11.9.1 Further Reading 225
11.9.2 True/False 225
11.9.3 Exercises 225
12 transient Well testing 227

12.1 Pressure Transient Testing 227
12.1.1 Flow Regimes 228
12.1.2 Types of Pressure Transient Tests 228
12.2 Oil Well Pressure Transient Testing 229
12.2.1 Pressure Buildup Test 232
12.2.2 Interpreting Pressure Transient Tests 235
12.2.3 Radius of Investigation of a Liquid Well 237
12.3 Gas Well Pressure Transient Testing 237
12.3.1 Diffusivity Equation 238
12.3.2 Pressure Buildup Test in a Gas Well 238
12.3.3 Radius of Investigation 239
12.3.4 Pressure Drawdown Test and the Reservoir Limit Test 240
12.3.5 Rate Transient Analysis 241
12.3.6 Two‐Rate Test 242
12.4 Gas Well Deliverability 242
12.4.1 The sBA Method 244
12.4.2 The LIT Method 245
12.5 summary of Transient Well Testing 246
12.6 Activities 246
12.6.1 Further Reading 246
12.6.2 True/False 246
12.6.3 Exercises 247