RESERVOIR

CHARACTERISTICS
ING. JOHN HARRY RAMIREZ SANCHEZ
ENGLISH TEACHER
RESERVOIR CHARACTERISTICS
 Certain fundamental conditions must be present in
the reservoirs as, the porosity of the rock that
indicates the percentage of capacity of storage of
the total volume of the rock; the total volume of the
reservoir that considerate the average thickness
and extension; the presence of hydrocarbons at the
place, given by the percentage of saturation, that is
to say the percentage of the volume that form the
pores and the space occupied for the
hydrocarbons. These basic factors serve to estimate
the volumetric aspect of the location.
 RESERVOIR PRESSURE
 The reservoir pressure is
very important because this
induces the movement of the
petroleum from the reservoir
confines toward the wells
and from the bottom to the
surface. Of the magnitude
the pressure depends if the
petroleum flows naturally
with force until the surface
or if, on the contrary, the
pressure is not enough so
that the petroleum arrives
until certain level in the well.
RESERVOIR TEMPERATURE
In the practice we must take measures of
temperature in the wells to have an idea of
the temperature gradient that generally you
expressed in 1 °C by the way constant interval
of depth. The knowledge of the gradient of
temperature it is important and applicable in
tasks as design and casing selection and
production strings, perforation fluids and
fluids for wells workovers, cementations and
production studies.
RESERVOIR TEMPERATURE
CRUDE OIL VISCOSITY
 The oil viscosity represents their
characteristic of fluency. The extra heavy oils
are more viscous than the heavy oils. The
heavy oils more viscous than the medium.
The medium more viscous than the light.
The light and condensed are the most fluids.
Another index of appreciation of the oil
fluency, is the °API gravity that indicates the
fluency.
CRUDE OIL VISCOSITY
HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE
The hydrostatic pressure is the total pressure created by the weight of a
column of fluid, acting in any point in a well. Hydro it means water, or
fluid that exercises pressure as water, and static means without
movement. This way hydrostatic pressure is the pressure originated by
the density and the height of a stationary column
(without movement) of fluid.
We already know how to calculate a gradient of pressure of the weight of a
fluid. The pressure hydrostatics can be calculated of a gradient of
pressure to a certain point:

Hydrostatic pressure = Gradient of Pressure x TVD

Or, it can be calculated for:

Hydrostatic pressure = Density of the flowing x Factor of

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