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Bubble point pressure, pbpsia

\displaystyle \ln p_b = 1.7669 + 1.7447 \, \ln p^*_b - 0.30218 \,\big( p^*_b \big)^2, \displaystyle p^*_b = \left( \frac{R_s}{\gamma_g} \right)^a \, T^b \, \gamma_{API}^c

a = 0.816, \, c = -0.989

b = \begin{cases} 0.172 & \mbox{for Black Oil} \\ 0.130 , & \mbox{for Volatile Oil} \end{cases}

where

p

psiaFluid pressure

T

°FInitial formation temperature

\gamma_{API}

°APIOil API gravity

\gamma_o

fracOil specific gravity

\gamma_g

fracGas specific gravity


See Also


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

[ Glaso (1980) oil correlations ]

References


Glaso, Oistein. "Generalized Pressure-Volume-Temperature Correlations." J Pet Technol 32 (1980): 785–795. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/8016-PA







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