Dead oil viscosity	μ_od	cp	p > p_b	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle \mu_{od}(T) = 10^X - 1\end{array}$ , $\begin{array}{l}X = 10^Z \, T^{c_3}\end{array}$ , $\begin{array}{l}Z = c_1 +c_2 \, \gamma_{API}\end{array}$ $\begin{array}{l}c_1 = 3.0324, \ c_2 = - 0.02023, \ c_3 = -1.163\end{array}$

where

$\begin{array}{l}T\end{array}$	°F	Fluid temperature
$\begin{array}{l}\gamma_{API}\end{array}$	°API	Oil API gravity

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