Saturated oil gas solubility | Rs | psia | p ≤ pb | \displaystyle R_s(p, T) = \gamma_g \cdot \big[ \gamma_{API}^{-c_5} \, T^{-c_6} \, p_b^* \big]^{1/c_4}, \displaystyle p^*_b = 10^X, \quad X = (0.5/c_3) \cdot \left( -c_2 + \sqrt{c_2^2 - 4 \, c _3 \, \big( c_1- \log_{10}(p) \big)} \right) c_1 = 1.7669, \ c_2 = 1.7447, \ c_3 = -0.30218, \ c_4 = 0.816, \ c_5 = -0.989 \mbox{Black Oil: } c_6 = 0.172 , \mbox{Volatile Oil: } c_6 = 0.130 |
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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
[ Glaso (1980) oil correlations ]