Tarner Method Solution Gas Drive

Problem Oil-05: A volumetric oil reservoir presents the following characteristics:

N= 78.858x106 m3 std
Pi= 1700 psi
Pb =1700 psi
Swi = 25%
Wp = 0
Winj = 0
Fluid properties

Pb

Pj
Pj+1

Bo (m3/m3std)
P
(psi)
1700
1.265
1501
1.241
1300
1.214
1099
1.191
900
1.161
700
1.147
501
1.117
300
1.093
100
1.058

Rs
(m3std/m3std)
96.2
87.3
78.4
68.9
59.5
49.5
39.2
28.2
15

Bg
(m3std/m3std)
0.00741
0.00842
0.00983
0.01179
0.01471
0.011931
0.02779
0.04828
0.15272

o
(cp)
1.19
1.22
1.25
1.3
1.35
1.5
1.8
2.28
3.22

Production Data
P
(psi)
700

Np
(m3std)
1.34E+07

Gp
(106 m3std)
3066148

kg/ko Curve versus liquid saturation

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R
(m3std/m3std)
374.2

g
(cp)
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02

Using the Tarner method and adopting the following criteria for the maximum allowable error:

1. The oil cumulative production for (P = 501, 300, 100)

2. The instantaneous gas-oil production ratio
3. The gas cumulative production

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Flow chart Tarner Method

Start
Pick a pressure value pj+1 < pj

Determine the fluid properties (o, g, Bo, Bg, Rs)

at pressure pj+1

Estimate a recovery fraction value Npasj+1 < Nb

Compute the gas production increment by the MBE equation

Determine the value of (kg/ko)j+1 from the relative permeability curves

Compute the average GOR value

Determine the gas production using the GOR expression

Finish
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Because we want to calculate the value in P= 501

Pj =
Pj+1 =

700
501

psia
psia

Pj+1
o =
g =
Bo =
Bg =
Rs=

Npsj+1 =

(Gps/Nb)MBE =

SLj=
SLj+1=

Pj

1.8
0.02
1.117
0.02779
39.2

16,860,000.00

o =
g =
Bo =
Bg =
Rs=

(m3std)

22.55

81.49%
77.1%

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1.5
0.02
1.147
0.011931
49.5

log(kg/ko)j=
(kg/ko)j=

-1.2
0.063095734

log(kg/ko)j+1 =
(kg/ko)j+1 =

-0.89
0.128824955

Rj =
Rj+1 =

504.433413
505.222769

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22.44

(Gps/Nb)GOR =

|error| =

0.50

Compute for the pressure of 501 psi:

a) The instantaneous gas-oil production ratio

R=

505.2227687

[std m^3/ std m^3]

b) The oil cumulative production

Np =

16,860,000.00(m^3 std)

c) The gas cumulative production

Gp =

4.06E+09

(m^3 std)

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