Petroleum Reservoir that reside in reservoirs with the original temperatures lying between the pseudo-critical temperature
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Natural Gas Reservoir with initial formation temperature
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Fig. 1. Production path of the Retrograde Gas Condensate Reservoir on the Phase Equilibrium Diagram. The downward solid black arrow shows a reservoir pressure depletion path. The downward grey dash arrow shows a wellbore lift pressure drop path. |
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