The Skin Effect and Its Influence on the Productive Capacity of a Well
The Skin Effect and Its Influence on the Productive Capacity of a Well
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10.2118/203-g
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1953-06
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A. V. Everdingen
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A. V. Everdingen
The pressure drop in a well per unit rate of flow is con· trolled by the resistance of the formation, the viscosity of the fluid, and the additional resistance concentrated around the well bore resulting from the drilling and completion technique employed and, perhaps, from the production practices used. The pressure drop caused by this additional resistance is defined in this paper as the skin effect, denoted by the symbol S. This skin effect considerably detracts from a well's capacity to produce. Methods are given to determine quantitatively (a) the value of S, (b) the final build-up pressure, and (c) the product of average permeability times the thickness of the producing formation.