Reservoir Fluid Properties PEEG 213

PEEG 217
RESERVOIR FLUID
PROPERTIES
Dr. John Williams & Mr. Mimoune Kissami
Computer Lab. Class C1

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Outline
Tutorial about the Five Reservoir Types
Phase Behaviour Calculations with COPES
software package
Homework will be given later.

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Reservoir Fluid Phase Diagrams

You should be very familiar with these.

You should be able to:
Draw any one of them
Add labels
Interpret what happens as the reservoir is
depleted
Explain what happens as the reservoir fluid
moves to the surface facilities (separator)

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Black Oil (Low Shrinkage Oil)

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Volatile Oil (High Shrinkage Oil)

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Retrograde Gas (Gas Condensate)

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Wet Gas (One-Phase Gas - Wet)

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Dry Gas (One-Phase Gas - Dry)

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Phase Behavior with Software Package

Use the COPES package to simulate surface
separation processes
This is a simple (and free) package
You can move around the screens using
arrow keys.
Beware when changing compositions that
you must overwrite all previous digits

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Activities with COPES

Enter the composition on p.260 of the course text (in mole
per cent)
Run a flash separation:

1 stage
Reservoir P and T from page 259 you have to look closely
Separator P = 15 psia; Separator T = 25C
Do not change the tank stage conditions
Beware of the units
What is special about 60F?

Look at the data and the compositions

Now try to simulate part of the separation test on page 265 of

the course text:
Run the separation labelled 300 to 0
How does your gas oil ratio compare with the experimental value on
page 265?
Compare the software-generated separator gas composition with the
experiment composition on page 269. Are there any major
differences?

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Activities with COPES (continued)

Try to determine the bubble point of the oil at
reservoir conditions by setting the separator
temperature to reservoir temperature:
The software is not really designed for this so there may
be a warning message
We will use an iterative procedure which is similar to
the way and EOS package identifies the bubble point.
This will be a group exercise (in parallel computing)
How does the software do in identifying phases?

Additional exercise (if time permits): Try to

estimate how one property will vary with another.
Then use COPES to see if you are correct.

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Homework
There is a PEEG 216 homework related to
the software package. It will be announced
by Dr. Williams after the class on Modelling
gas-liquid equilibria with equations of state.