PRCI NC-2

L00140e

U.S. Bureau of Mines

Need: Forward looking people in the industry recognized the need for a better understanding of energy relationships, and their dependence on properties of fluids. General interest had arisen in phase relationships of fluids and their dependence on composition, pressure and temperature.

Result: This monograph consists essentially of two parts. One part reports the results of test, and the other presents correlations of data from the tests. The correlations are designed for computing significant properties of fluids, using data from relatively simple and inexpensive tests as guides. Usually more certain results can be obtained by applying correlations to information from more thorough tests. For this reason, two or more correlations of important properties have been presented, so the engineer may choose between a correlation that may be applied readily and one that gives greater certainty at the expense of additional testing.

Benefit: Although the monograph is intended primarily for application to problems related to the production of gas-condensate fluids, it can be useful in most recovery operations that require mixture of natural gas or processed gas with reservoir oil. These properties are important in an operation that involves the return of gas to a reservoir to obtain gaseous solutions or mobile liquids that will flow through the formation to producing wells. As gas-condensate fluids represent one-fourth or more of the domestic reserves of gas and as nearly one-half of the oil discovered each year is likely to be abandoned ultimately unless improved means are found to move it from its place in the formation to producing wells, the results of research presented in the monograph can have many applications.

Product Details

Published:

01/01/1970

Number of Pages:

1026

File Size:

1 file , 41 MB