An improved deconvolution algorithm using B-splines for well-test data analysis in petroleum engineering

Numerical experimental tests demonstrate that the improved deconvolution algorithm exhibits good accuracy, computation speed and stability of data error tolerance. And the statement on how to perform the regularization when data error exists is also made in order to deconvolve the correct wellbore pressure derivative. The improved deconvolution algorithm is also applied into an actual field example. It is found that the deconvolution results by the improved deconvolution algorithm have good agreement with the ones by Von Schroeter et al.'s deconvolution algorithm and by Levitan et al.'s deconvolution algorithm as a whole; and the feature of typical log-log curves of the wellbore pressure drop and the wellbore pressure derivative corresponding to the improved algorithm is very close to the one of typical log-log curves calculated directly from the wellbore pressure data in the well shut-in period. In addition, through many numerical experimental tests, it is also concluded that as the quantity of data largely increases, the improved Ilk et al.'s deconvolution algorithm exhibits the big advantage in fast computational speed over von Schroeter et al.'s algorithm and Levitan et al.'s algorithm.