Table of Contents:
  • 2.4.3 Empirical Correlations
  • 2.5 Three-Phase Relative Permeability
  • 2.6 Applications of Permeability and Relative Permeability Data
  • Nomenclature
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • General Reading
  • Chapter 3 Reservoir Fluid Saturations
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Determination of Water Saturations
  • 3.2.1 Clean Sands
  • 3.2.2 Shaly Sands
  • 3.2.3 Carbonate Rocks
  • 3.2.4 Water Saturations from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logs
  • 3.2.5 Uncertainties in Estimation of Water Saturation
  • 3.3 Determination of Reservoir Productive Intervals
  • 3.3.1 Net Sands, Net Reservoir, and Net Pay
  • Nomenclature
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • General Reading
  • Chapter 4 Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) Properties of Reservoir Fluids
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Phase Diagrams
  • 4.2.1 Single Component Systems
  • 4.2.2 Binary Systems
  • 4.2.3 Multicomponent Systems
  • 4.2.4 Retrograde Behavior of Gas-Condensate Systems
  • 4.3 Gas and Gas-Condensate Properties
  • 4.3.1 Ideal Gas Equation
  • 4.12.3 Coefficient of Isothermal Compressibility of Formation Water
  • 4.12.4 Viscosity of Formation Water
  • Nomenclature
  • Subscripts
  • References
  • General Reading
  • Chapter 5 Reservoir Fluid Sampling and PVT Laboratory MeasurementsChapter
  • 5.1 Overview of Reservoir Fluid Sampling
  • 5.2 Reservoir Type and State
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 4.3.2 Real Gas Equation
  • 4.3.3 Gas Gravity
  • 4.3.4 Reduced Temperature and Pressure
  • 4.4 Pseudo-critical Properties of Gas Mixtures
  • 4.4.1 Composition of Gas Mixtures Known
  • 4.4.2 Correction for non-Hydrocarbon Gas Impurities
  • 4.4.3 Composition of Gas Mixture Unknown
  • 4.5 Wet Gas and Gas Condensate
  • 4.5.1 Recombination Method
  • 4.5.2 Correlation Method
  • 4.6 Correlations for Gas Compressibility Factor
  • 4.7 Gas Formation Volume Factor (FVF)
  • 4.8 Gas Density
  • 4.9 Gas Viscosity
  • 4.10 Gas Coefficient of Isothermal Compressibility
  • 4.11 Correlations for Calculation of Oil PVT Properties
  • 4.11.1 Bubble Point Pressure
  • 4.11.2 Solution Gas-Oil Ratio (GOR)
  • 4.11.3 Oil Formation Volume Factor (FVF)
  • 4.11.4 Coefficient of Isothermal Compressibility of Oil
  • 4.11.5 Oil Viscosity
  • 4.12 Correlations for Calculation of Water PVT Properties
  • 4.12.1 Water Formation Volume Factor (FVF)
  • 4.12.2 Density of Formation Water
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1 Porosity of Reservoir Rocks
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Total Porosity and Effective Porosity
  • 1.3 Sources of Porosity Data
  • 1.3.1 Direct Methods for Measurement of Porosity
  • 1.3.2 Indirect Methods for Derivation of Porosity
  • 1.4 Applications of Porosity Data
  • 1.4.1 Volumetric Calculation
  • 1.4.2 Calculation of Fluid Saturations
  • 1.4.3 Reservoir Characterization
  • Nomenclature
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • General Reading
  • Chapter 2 Permeability and Relative Permeability
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Sources of Permeability Data
  • 2.2.1 Permeability from Core Samples
  • 2.2.2 Permeability from Pressure Transient Tests
  • 2.2.3 Permeability from Well Logs Based on Empirical Correlations
  • 2.3 Relative Permeability
  • 2.4 Sources of Relative Permeability Data
  • 2.4.1 Laboratory Measurements of Relative Permeability Data
  • 2.4.2 Estimations from Field Data