pb | psia | \displaystyle p_b =c_1 \cdot \left[ \frac{R_s^{c_2}}{\gamma_g^{c_3}} \cdot 10^X+ c_4 \right], X = c_5 \, T^{c_6} + c_7 \, \gamma_{API}^{c_8} c_1 = 112.727, \ c_2 = 0.5774, \ c_3 = 0.8439, \ c_4 = -12.340 c_5 = 4.561 \cdot 10^{-5}, \ c_6 = 1.3911, \ c_7 = -7.916 \cdot 10^{-4}, \ c_8 = 1.5410 |
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where
p | psia | Fluid pressure |
T | °F | Initial formation temperature |
\gamma_{API} | °API | Oil API gravity |
\gamma_o | frac | Oil specific gravity |
\gamma_g | frac | Gas specific gravity |
See Also
Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Petroleum Engineering / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Reservoir Engineering (RE) / PVT correlations / Oil correlations
[ Petrosky–Farshad (1993) oil correlations ]