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Oil correlations based on North Sea on Middle Eastern oil samples.


Bubble point pressurepbpsia

Saturated oil formation volume factor, Bo

bbl/stb

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\displaystyle B_o(p, T) = 1.0 + 10%5eA, \quad A = -6.58511 + 2.91329 \, \ln B%5e*_%7Bob%7D - 0.27683 \, \left( \ln B%5e*_%7Bob%7D \right)%5e2

p_b = c_1 \, R_s%5e%7Bc_2%7D \,\gamma_g%5e%7Bc_3%7D \, \gamma_o%5e%7Bc_4%7D \, T%5e%7Bc_5%7D

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B%5e*

c_

%7Bob%7D = R_s \, \left( \frac%7B\gamma_g%7D%7B\gamma_o%7D \right)%5e%7B0.526%7D + 0.968 \, T

1 = 5.38088 \cdot 10%5e%7B-3%7D, \ c_2 = 0.715082, \ c_3 = -1.877840 , \ c_4 = 3.1437, \ c_5 = 1.32657


Saturated gas solubility


Rs
Saturated oil gas solubility, Rs
scf/stbp ≤ pb

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body--uriencoded--\displaystyle R_s(p, T) = \

gamma_g \cdot \big[ \gamma_%7BAPI%7D%5e%7B0.989%7D \, p%5e*_b \, T%5e%7B-0.172%7D \big]%5e%7B1.2255%7D, \quad p%5e*_b = 10%5eX, \quad X = 2.8869 - (14.1811 - 3.3093 \, \ln p)%5e%7B0.5%7D

left[ %7Bc_1%7D%5e%7B-1%7D p \, \gamma_g%5e%7B-c_3%7D \, \gamma_o%5e%7B-c_4%7D \, T%5e%7B-c_5%7D \right]%5e%7B1/c_2%7D

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body--uriencoded--c_1 = 5.38088 \cdot 10%5e%7B-3%7D, \ c_2 = 0.715082, \ c_3 = -1.877840 , \ c_4 = 3.1437, \ c_5 = 1.32657


Saturated oil formation volume factor

Bobbl/stbp ≤ pb
Bubble point pressure, pbpsia,

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\displaystyle p%5e*_b = \left( R_s/\gamma_g \right)%5ea \, T%5eb \, \gamma_%7BAPI%7D%5ec

B_o(p, T) = c_1 + c_2 \, T + c_3 \, F + c_4 \, F%5e2
,
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\displaystyle p_b = a \, R_s%5eb

F =R_s%5e%7Bc_5%7D(p, T) \, \gamma_g%5e%7Bc_

g%5ec

6%7D \, \gamma

_o%5ed \, T%5ee

_o%5e%7Bc_7%7D

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a

--uriencoded--c_1 =0.497069, \ c_2 = 0.

816

862963 \cdot 10%5e%7B-3%7D, \ c_3 = 0.182594 \cdot 10%5e%7B-2%7D , \ c_4 = 0.

989

318099 \cdot 10%5e%7B-5%7D

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body

--uriencoded-- b = \begin%7Bcases%7D

c_5 = 0.

172

742390,

& \mbox%7Bfor Black Oil%7D \\

\, c_6 = 0.

130

323294,

& \mbox%7Bfor Volatile Oil%7D \end%7Bcases%7D

\, c_7 = -1.202040


where

Location
North Sea
Middle East

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psiaFluid pressure

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°FInitial formation temperature

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

°APIOil API gravity

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body\gamma_o

fracOil specific gravity

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body\gamma_g

fracGas specific gravity

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body--uriencoded--R_%7Bsb%7D

scf/stb


See Also

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

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