The Exposure of New Estimating Models for Bubble Point Pressure in Crude Oil of One of The Oil fields in Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Young Researchers and Elite Club, Omidiyeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Omidiyeh, Iran

2 Petroleum Engineering Department, Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran

3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

4 National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC), Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

One of the most important properties of reservoir fluids is bubble point pressure which helps
the reservoir engineer to estimate reservoir oil in place, inflow performance and to design
wellhead equipment.
In this study, 65 tested data, related to 10 wells located in the one Southwest fields in Iran have
been used which data in this field for
0API<=30 and 0API>30 includes: 1) oil formation volume
factor (1.2-1.6) and (1.3-1.58) bbl/STB, 2) oil sample temperature (110-150) and (130-170)
0F,
3) stock tank oil gravity (14.47-26.20) and (32.19-71.09)
0API, 4) solution gas-oil ratio (707-
1146) and (654-1066) SCF/STB, 5) gas specific gravity (0.898-1.085) and (0.881-1.187) and
6) bubble point pressure (2962-4196) and (2078-4149) psi.
According to the different
0API range and to researchers carried out on this field, it has been
determined that out a model for data range with
0API>30 and one estimating the model for
0API<=30 is required.
These equations respectively are applicable for crude oil of
0API ranging between
The results have shown that for the equation with range of
0API>30 the minimum error is 0.009
and maximum error is 0.28 and for the equation with range of
0API<=30 the minimum error is
0.0082 and maximum error is 0.25 which it shows the high accuracy of the equation proposed
in this study than other researchers.


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