E I P C Fluid Properties

1 FLUID PROPERTIES EXERCISE 1 – GAS FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR

An onshore exploration well has discovered a small gas reservoir, and a preliminary estimate of the gas in-
place is required in order to justify casing the well. The well test and other pertinent data is as follows:
Area = 259 ha Thickness = 10 m
Averag e Porosity θ = 0.20 Average Sw = 0.30
Reservoir Pressure = 14000 kPa Reservoir Temp = 100 °C
Gas Gravity (air=1) γgas = 0.605
Note that the GIIP is estimate from:

GIIP = Volume × θ × (1−S w ) × E i (1)

and that 1 ha = 10,000 m2.

The following equations may also be of use:

T c = 94.717 + 170.747 γ g (2)

P c = 4892.547 − 404.486 γ g (3)

Where, Pc = pseudo critical pressure (kPa)

Tc = pseudo critical temperature (K), and K = C + 273.15
γg = gas gravity (air = 1.0)

For the pseudo reduced pressure and temperature we have:

T P
T pr = and P pr = (4)
T pc P pc

and for the gas formation factor we can use:

E = 2.84
( )
Pi
Zi T i
(5)

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