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Saturated oil viscosity

μocpdead

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body--uriencoded--\displaystyle \mu_%7Bob%7D(R_s) = A \cdot \left( \mu_%7Bod%7D \right)%5eB
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body--uriencoded--A = c_1 \cdot (R_s + c_2)%5e%7Bc_3%7D
,
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body--uriencoded--B = c_4 \cdot (R_s + c_5)%5e%7Bc_6%7D


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bodyc_1 = 10.715, \ c_2 = 100, \ c_3 = -0.515, \ c_4 = 5.44, \ c_5 = 150 , \ c_6 = -0.338

where

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bodyT

°FFluid temperature

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body--uriencoded--\gamma_%7BAPI%7D

°APIOil API gravity

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body--uriencoded--\mu_%7Bod%7D

cpDead oil viscosity

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bodyR_s

Solution Gas Oil Ratio

See Also


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