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cw water isothermal compressibility McCain correlation @model

(1)	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle c_w(T,p)=\frac{1}{7.033 \cdot p + 0.5415 \cdot S - 537 \cdot T + 403300}\end{array}$

where

$\begin{array}{l}T\end{array}$	Temperature, °F
$\begin{array}{l}p\end{array}$	Pressure, psi
$\begin{array}{l}S\end{array}$	Water salinity, ppt

200 F < T < 270 F

1,000 < p < 20,000 psi

0 < S < 200,000 ppt

See Also

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

Reference

McCain, W.D.. "Reservoir-Fluid Property Correlations-State of the Art (includes associated papers 23583 and 23594 )." SPE Res Eng 6 (1991): 266–272. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/18571-PA