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for injection.
The concept applies both to producing and injecting wells.
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For volatile oil fluid model the total sandface flowrate is related to surface flowrates of fluid components as:
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| water sandface flowrate, oil sandface flowrate, gas sandface flowrate |
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| Water surface flowrate, produced water surface flowrate, oil surface flowrate, gas surface flowrate |
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| injected water | Oil surface flowrate, | Gas gas surface flowrate |
| formation volume factors between sandface pressure/temperature conditions and surface measurement unit (usually separator or processing plant) for water, oil, gas |
| Solution GOR and Vaporized oil ratio at sandface pressure/temperature conditions |
The total sandface flowrate LaTeX Math Inline |
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of production is It is related to Liquid production rate
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qq^{\uparrow}_t = \Big[ B_w Y_wW + \Big( \, (B_o - R_s B_g) + GORY_G \cdot (B_g - R_v B_o) \, \Big) \cdot (1-Y_wW) \Big] \cdot qq^{\uparrow}_L |
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GORfrac{q_G}{q_O}
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qq^{\uparrow}_t = B_w \, qq^{\uparrow}_W + (B_o - R_s \, B_g) \, qq^{\uparrow}_O + B_g \, qq^{\uparrow}_G
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qq^{\uparrow}_t = \Big[ B_w Y_wW + \Big( \, (B_o - R_s B_g) + GORY_G \cdot B_g \, \Big) \cdot (1-Y_wW) \Big] \cdot qq^{\uparrow}_L |
It simplifies further down to production from undersaturated reservoir as:
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qq^{\uparrow}_t = B_w \, qq^{\uparrow}_W + B_o \, qq^{\uparrow}_O = \Big[ B_w Y_wW + B_o \cdot (1- Y_wW) \Big] \cdot qq^{\uparrow}_L
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and even simpler for single-phase fluid (water, dead oil or dry gas) with surface flow rate
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formation volume factor B as below:
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qq^{\uparrow}_t = q \cdotq^{\uparrow} B, \quad {\rm meaning:} \quad q_t = qq^{\uparrow}_W \cdot B_w \quad {\rm or} \quad q_t = qq^{\uparrow}_O \cdot B_o \quad {\rm or} \quad q_t = qq^{\uparrow}_G \cdot B_G
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See Also
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Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Well Testing (WT) / Flowrate Testing / Flowrate
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