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Reservoir Fluid Properties Overview

This document provides an overview of key reservoir fluid properties including: 1. Phase behavior and phase diagrams which are used to visualize the production path of fluids from the reservoir to surface. 2. z-factors and z-factor charts which relate reservoir and surface volumes of a gas phase. 3. Formation volume factors (FVF) of oil and gas which relate reservoir and surface volumes of each phase. It also discusses properties like isothermal compressibility and viscosity which are important for fluid flow, vaporization factors for condensate reservoirs, and density which impacts vertical fluid gradients in reservoirs. Methods for estimating minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) and minimum miscibility enrichment (MME)

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Reservoir Fluid Properties Overview

This document provides an overview of key reservoir fluid properties including: 1. Phase behavior and phase diagrams which are used to visualize the production path of fluids from the reservoir to surface. 2. z-factors and z-factor charts which relate reservoir and surface volumes of a gas phase. 3. Formation volume factors (FVF) of oil and gas which relate reservoir and surface volumes of each phase. It also discusses properties like isothermal compressibility and viscosity which are important for fluid flow, vaporization factors for condensate reservoirs, and density which impacts vertical fluid gradients in reservoirs. Methods for estimating minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) and minimum miscibility enrichment (MME)

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Reservoir Fluid

Properties

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Outline
• Phase Behavior and Phase Diagrams
• z-factor and z-factor charts
• FVF of oil and Gas (relates res and surf vol’s
of a phase)
• Isothermal compressibility ( MBE) and
viscosity (fluid flow) of oil and gas
• Vaporization Factor, Rv (MBE Condensate )
• Density of oil and gas (vertical gradients of
fluids in res.)
• MMP and MMR (miscible disp)
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Phase Behavior-Diagrams

Use of Pressure vs. Temperature Diagrams

• Used to visualize the fluids production path from the


reservoir to the surface

• To classify reservoir fluids

• Visualize miscible processes


• PVT props can indicate fluid barrier type heterogeneity !
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Visualize Production Path

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Phase diagrams: Single component

What are the


important points
or curves?

Why do we call
dense fluid?

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Two-Component and retrograde condensation

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Real Gas law pV  znRT

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Wichert and Aziz Corrections for z-factors of Sour gases

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Abou Kassem and Dranchuk Correlation

Very convenient for simulations 10


Formation Volume Factor for Gases
Bg = Volume of a gas phase sample in reservoir at reservoir Tand P
Volume of gas phase yielded by the same sample at Tsc and Psc

The unit of Bg is cuft/SCF where Tsc=600F and pscc=14.7


psia

VGR PSC z RTR


Bg  
VGSC z SC TSC PR
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Formation Volume Factor for Dry Gases

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Isothermal Gas Compressibility
Definition of Cg cg = - (1/V) (∂V / ∂P)T or
cg = - (1/VM)* (∂VM / ∂P)T

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Gas Viscosity

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Gas Viscosity Correlations

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Isothermal Oil Compressibility

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Oil Compressibility Below Pb

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Oil Formation Volume Factor, Bo

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Oil Formation Volume Factor, Bo

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Two Phase Formation Volume Factor, Bt

VoR  VGR VGR


Two phase FVF is defined as: Bt   Bo 
VoSC VoSC

And can be shown to be: Bt  Bo  B g ( Rsi  Rs ) 21


Modern PVT properties
• The previous illustrations shows that there is no
volatilized oil in the gas phase. Thus there is no
condensation upon change of P and T to surface values.
•
• Therefore MBE based on the previous concepts only
were applicable only to dry gas and black oil reservoirs.

• The retrograde gases and liberated gas of volatile oil gas


contains volatilized oil and hence the illustrations differ.

• Consider the following PVT experiment.


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PVT properties for volatile oil and condensates

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MMP Estimation
• Graphical laboratory determination
• Slim tube experiments(42ft lenght)
• Actual reservoir temperature and actual gas(fixed composition)
• 6 to 8 points increasing pressure

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MME Estimation
• Graphical laboratory determination
• Slim tube experiments(42ft lenght)
• Actual reservoir temperature and actual gas(fixed
pressure)
• 6 to 8 points increasing enrichment

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