Bottom-hole Pressure
bottom-hole pressure
[′bäd·əm ‚hōl ‚presh·ər]Bottom-hole Pressure
the pressure at the bottom of a working oil, water, or gas well. The pressure at the bottom of a standing or temporarily shut-in well is called the formation pressure. The bottom-hole pressure may be determined reliably by measuring with a depth manometer. Since producing beds (for example, oil beds) are never horizontal, hydro-dynamic analyses of bottom-hole and formation pressures are usually conducted as applied to some horizontal plane, taking into consideration the pressure of a column of bed fluid between the plane and the bottom of a given well. Consequently, a distinction is made between actual and reduced bottom-hole (formation) pressure.