Undersaturated Oil Reservoir with initial temperature slightly lower the pseudo-critical temperature and the Vapour Liquid Envelope having quality lines tighter spaced at reservoir conditions while separator conditions lying on relatively low quality lines.
A small reduction of pressure below the bubble point vaporizes a significant fraction of the oil.
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Fig. 1. Production path of the Volatile Oil 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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Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Petroleum Geology / Petroleum reservoir / Hydrocarbon reservoir / Oil Reservoir / Undersaturated Oil Reservoir
[ Hydrocarbon Reserves ][ Depletion ]
[ Volatile Oil ][ Volatile Oil Fluid @model ]