Petroleum Engineering 324 ‘Well Performance Properties of Reservoir Fluids What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. — Emerson (1841) ‘Topic: Properties of Reservoir Fluids Objectives: (things you should know and/or be able to do) © Be able to apply/compute the following: Properties of Natural Gases —Kay's mixing rules. Sutton calculation for pseudoreduced temperature and pressure. =Wichert and Aziz corrections for pseudoreduced temperature and pressure, for the presence of carbon dioxide (COs) and/or hydrogen sulfide (HS). —z-factor using the Dranchuk and Abou-Kassem equation of state (DAK-EOS), —Gas compressibility using the Dranchuk and Abou-Kassem equation of state. —Gas viscosity using the Lee, Gonzales, and Eakin correlation. —Gas pseudopressure function. 1m Properties of Reservoir Oils Oil formation volume factor (Standing correlation). —Solution gas-oil ratio (Standing correlation). —Oil compressibility (Villena-Lanzi and Vasquez-Beges correlations). —Oil viscosity (Egbogah-Beggs-Robinson and Vasquez-Beggs correlations). m= Properties of Reservoir Waters — Water formation volume factor (McCain correlation). Solution gas-water ratio (McCain correlation). — Water compressibility (Osif and McCain correlations). —Water viscosity (McCain correlation). ‘Lecture Outline: ‘© Properties of Natural Gases m Pseudoreduced temperature and pressures (for gas mixtures) ™ Dranchuk and Abou-Kassem equation of state (DAK-EOS) —Calculation of z-factor and gas compressibility. ™ Gas viscosity (various approaches) © Properties of Reservoir Oils Oil formation volume factor (Standing correlation). m Solution gas-oil ratio (Standing correlation). —Discussion of alternative approaches. = Oil compressibility Oil viscosity © Properties of Reservoir Waters m Water formation volume factor. Solution water-oil ratio. ‘m Water compressibility Water viscosityPetroleum Engineering 324 Well Performance Properties of Reservoir Fluids Reading Assignment: © Review attached handout notes—"Properties of Reservoir Fluids” m Properties of Natural Gases Properties of Reservoir Oils Properties of Reservoir Waters mPore Volume Compressibility (Hall and Newman Correlations) © McCain, W.D., Jr: "Reservoit-Fluid Property Correlations—State of the Art," SPERE, (May 1991), 266-272. © Velarde, J.J., Blasingame, T.A., and McCain, W.D., J: "Correlation of Black Oil Properties at Pressures Below the Bubble Point Pressure—A New Approach,” paper CIM 97-93 presented at the 1997 meeting of the Petroleum Society of CIM, 1997.Petroleum Engineering 324 Well Performance Properties of Reservoir Fluids — Natural Gas Properties Standing and Katz z-factor Concept: Theory of Corresponding States ST ly 4 i From: Katz, D.L., Comell, D., Kobayashi, R., Poettman, F.H., Vary, J.A., Elenbaas, R., and Weinaug, C.F.: Handbook of Natural Gas Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York (1959).