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Title: Back Pressure Method Of Testing Gas Wells
Author: J. A. Lyon
Source: 1944 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1944
Abstract: The back pressure test on gas wells is a result of the gas industrys search during the last decade for a reliable standardized method of determining the ability of gas wells to produce. The capacity of a gas well to produce gas usually has been described in terms of its open flow. This open flow of a gas well in the Panhandle and other fields was determined by measuring the flow of a gas well with a pitot tube when the well was opened to the air through the casing. This method of testing was very wasteful. The United States Bureau of Mines Monograph Seven, covering the back-pressure testing of a gas well in which not more than 25 percent of the capacity was produced, was made available in 1936 and was the first method other than the opening of a well to the air. This Back Pressure Method has come to be standard in determining the absolute open flow of a gas well.

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