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Undersaturated oil viscosity

μocpp > pb

\displaystyle \mu_o(p) = \mu_{ob} + c_1 \, (p-p_b) \, \big [ c_2 \, \mu_{ob}^{c_3} + c_4 \, \mu_{ob}^{c_5} \big ]

c_1 = 0.001, \ c_2 = 0.024, \ c_3 = 1.6, \ c_4 = 0.038, \ c_5 = 0.56

where

\mu_{ob}

cpoil viscosity at bubble point pressure pb

p

psiaFluid pressure

p_b

psiaBubble point pressure

See Also


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

Beal (1946) oil correlations ]

References


Beal, C., 1946. The viscosity of air, water, natural gas, crude oils and its associated gases at oil field temperatures and pressures. Trans. AIME 165, 94–112

Standing, Marshall Burton. Volumetric and phase behavior of oil field hydrocarbon systems. Society of petroleum engineers of AIME, 1981








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