Depeletion of the elastic reserve of a sealed and fractured formation with anomalously high formation pressure (Q1081485)

An attempt is made to develop a joint closing hypothesis, to calculate the motion of the joint closing front from the bottom of the well to the edge of a homogeneous circular formation, and to derive expressions for predicting the fall in the output of the wells and the pressure in the formation. In order to obtain solutions it is assumed that the reservoir depletion regime is quasisteady, so that the results should be regarded as approximate.