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Saturated oil viscosity

μocpp ≤ pb

\displaystyle \mu_{ob}(R_s) = A \cdot \left( \mu_{od} \right)^BA = \right[ 1 + \left( R_s/{c_1} \right)^{c_2} } \right]^{-1}, B = c_3 + (1-c_3)\, \cdot \right[ 1 + \left( R_s/{c_4} \right)^{c_5} } \right]^{-1}

c_1 = 344.198, \ c_2 = 0.855344, \ c_3 = 0.382323, \ c_4 = 567.953, \ c_5 = 0.819326

where

\mu_{od}

cpDead oil viscosity

R_s

Solution Gas Oil Ratio

See Also


Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Petroleum Engineering / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Reservoir Engineering (RE) / PVT correlations / Oil correlations

[ Bergman-Sutton (2006-2009) oil viscosity correlations ]

References


Bergman, David F., and Robert P. Sutton. "An Update to Viscosity Correlations for Gas-Saturated Crude Oils." Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, California, U.S.A., November 2007. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/110195-MS






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