PETE 216

Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties

Fall 2006-2007
Dr. Mahmut Parlaktuna

CONVENTIONAL PVT MEASUREMENTS

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STANDARD PVT TESTS

Compositional Analysis

(CA)
Multistage Separation (MSS)
Constant Composition Expansion (CCE)
(Flash vaporization test)
Differential Liberation Expansion (DLE)
(Differential vaporization test)
Constant Volume Depletion (CVD)

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OIL PVT ANALYSES

Bottomhole wellstream compositional

analysis through C7+,

CCE
DLE
MSS

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COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC)
LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (LC)

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Constant Composition Expansion

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Constant Composition Expansion

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Constant Composition Expansion

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Pressure (psig)

Relative Volume

5000

0.9639

0.6808

4500

0.9702

0.6763

4100

0.9756

0.6726

4000

0.9770

0.6716

3500

0.9845

0.6665

3000

0.9928

0.6609

2900

0.9946

0.6597

2800

0.9964

0.6585

2700

0.9984

0.6572

2620

1.0000

0.6562

2605

1.0021

2591

1.0042

2516

1.0157

2401

1.0353

2253

1.0648

2.497

2090

1.1041

2.418

1897

1.1627

2.325

1698

1.2415

2.229

1477

1.3611

2.122

1292

1.5000

2.033

1040

1.7839

1.911

2.1709

1.810

2.7603

1.718

830
640

Y Function

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Density (g/cm3)

Constant Composition Expansion

6000

5000

Pressure (psig)

4000
Bubble point
3000
Pb
2000

1000

0
0.8

1.0

1.2

1.4

1.6

1.8

2.0

Relative Volume

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Constant Composition Expansion

Above bubblepoint

1 V
co =-

V P T

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Constant Composition Expansion

2.6
2.4
2.2

Y function

2.0
1.8
1.6

Y=
1.4

Pb -P

Vt -Vb

Vb

1.2
1.0
0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

Pressure (psig)

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Differential Liberation Expansion

Bg =

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VR
=Z
Vsc
Tsc

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Psc

P

Differential Liberation Expansion

Pressure
(psig)

Rsd
(SCF/bbl)1

Rsd
(vol/vol)1

Bod2

Btd3

Oil density
(g/cm3)

2620

854

152

1.600

1.600

0.6562

2350

763

136

1.554

1.665

2100

683

122

1.515

1850

612

109

1600

544

1350

Bg4

Incremental
gas gravity

0.6655

0.846

0.00685

0.825

1.748

0.6731

0.851

0.00771

0.818

1.479

1.859

0.6808

0.859

0.00882

0.797

97

1.445

2.016

0.6889

0.872

0.01034

0.791

479

85

1.412

2.244

0.6969

0.887

0.01245

0.794

1100

416

74

1.382

2.593

0.7044

0.903

0.01552

0.809

850

354

63

1.351

3.169

0.7121

0.922

0.02042

0.831

600

292

52

1.320

4.254

0.7198

0.941

0.02931

0.881

350

223

40

1.283

6.975

0.7291

0.965

0.05065

0.988

159

157

28

1.244

14.693

0.7382

0.984

0.10834

1.213

1.075

0.7892

2.039

Gravity of residual oil = 35.1 API @ 60 F

1
Volume of gas at the standard conditions per volume of residual oil.
2
Volume of oil at indicated pressure and temperature per volume of oil at the standard conditions.
3
Volume of oil plus liberated gas at indicated pressure and temperature per volume of residual oil at the standard conditions.
4
Volume of gas at indicated pressure and temperature per volume at the standard conditions.

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Multistage Separation Test

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Multistage Separation Test

Separator
Pressure (psig)

50 to 0

100 to 0

200 to 0

300 to 0

Gas oil ratio

(SCF/bbl)1

Gas oil ratio

(SCF/STB)2

715

737

41

41

637

676

91

92

542

602

177

178

478

549

245

246

Stock-tank oil gravity

(API at 60 F)

40.5

40.7

40.4

40.1

Formation
Volume
factor
(vol/vol)3

1.481

1.474

1.483

1.495

Separator
volume
factor
(vol/vol)4

Specific
gravity of
flashed gas

1.031

0.840

1.007

1.338

1.062

0.786

1.007

1.363

1.112

0.732

1.007

1.329

1.148

0.704

1.007

1.286

GOR per barrel of oil at indicated pressure and temperature.

GOR per barrel of stock-tank oil at 60 F.
3
FVF per barrel of stock-tank oil at 60 F.
4
Separator oil volume factor per barrel of stock-tank oil at 60 F.
1
2

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Multistage Separation Test

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GAS CONDENSATE PVT ANALYSES

Recombined Wellstream Compositional Analysis

(CA)
Constant Composition Expansion (CCE) (Flash
vaporization test)
Constant Volume Depletion (CVD)

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Constant Composition Expansion

Pressure (psig)

Relative volume (V/Vsat)3

Z4

Volume of Retrograde liquid (%)5

7975

0.9395

1.2866

0.00

7540

0.9599

1.2429

0.00

7250

0.9765

1.2158

0.00

71831

0.9787

1.2074

0.00

7105

0.9826

1.1991

0.00

6960

0.9935

1.1876

0.00

68222

1.0000

1.1718

0.00

6743

1.0068

1.1660

0.30

6598

1.0174

1.1530

0.82

6380

1.0312

1.1302

1.73

6090

1.0550

1.1039

2.92

5655

1.0971

1.0661

4.79

5075

1.1687

1.0120

7.18

4495

1.2632

0.9764

9.40

3915

1.3959

0.9401

11.02

Initial
3335reservoir pressure
1.5841
0.9094
Saturation pressure at reservoir temperature
3
V2610
= volume of fluid at saturation pressure
1.9773and reservoir temperature
0.8894
sat
4
Z=PV/nRT (n total number of moles)
5
(Volume of retrograde liquid at indicated pressure / total volume at saturation pressure)*100
1
2

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12.40
13.15

Constant Composition Expansion

2.5

14
12

2.0

1.5

6
1.0

Relative volume (V/Vsat)

Volume of Retrograde liquid (%)

Liquid volume (%)

Relative Volume (V/V sat)

10

0.5
0
0.0
0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

-2
9000

Pressure (psig)

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Constant Volume Depletion

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Pressure (psig)

Cumulated production (%)

Specific gravity of
produced gas

Volume of
Retrograde liquid
(%)

7975

0.00

0.943

1.2866

0.00

7540

0.00

0.943

1.2429

0.00

7250

0.00

0.943

1.2158

0.00

7183

0.00

0.943

1.2074

0.00

7105

0.40

0.943

1.1991

0.00

6960

1.51

0.943

1.1876

0.00

6822

2.17

0.943

1.1718

0.00

5800

9.67

0.889

1.0767

4.31

4930

17.66

0.845

1.0056

7.53

3915

29.89

0.797

0.9479

10.18

3045

42.90

0.760

0.9176

11.28

2030

60.29

0.737

0.9171

11.32

1160

76.17

0.728

0.9476

10.49

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Constant Volume Depletion

12

Condensate Drop-out (%)

10

0
0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

Pressure (psig)

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Constant Volume Depletion

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Constant Volume Depletion

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