Flash the reservoir fluid at the new pressure, calculate amount of moles in the gas and liquid phases gast and liqt and the densities and molecular weights of each of the phases at the new condition. The hawiyah jauf reservoir is a complex structuralstratigraphic trap located along the east flank of the uplifted ghawar structure. The algorithm is a valuable tool for the reservoir engineer who analyzes gas condensate reservoirs. A retrograde gas condensate with following composition is existed in a reservoir. Therefore the controlling experiments such as total reservoir fluid composition and dew point pressure for gas condensate samples are done on. Characterization of gas condensate reservoirs is a di. The liquid dropout curve assumes the two phases remain in contact with one another. It is well known that a black oil pvt table including formation volume factors, r, and r, versus pressure can be converted to compositional mode. Pdf production performance of gas condensate reservoirs. Gas condensate reservoirs are the categories of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Compositional modeling of gascondensate reservoirs. Spe society of petroleum engineers reservoir engineering. Download table composition of natural gas condensate hc mixtures. The rich gas drops out more condensate than the lean gas bottom leftt. Understanding gascondensate reservoirs semantic scholar. A retrogradecondensate fluid has a phase envelope such that reservoir temperature lies between the critical. There are many condensate sources, and each has its own unique gas condensate composition. Gas produced in association with condensate is called. The converted table gives the saturated oil and gas phase molar densities molesrb and compositions mole fractions x, and yj as singlevalued functions of pressure. Model for the prediction of condensate recovery was developed by integrating experimental design, reservoir composition and fluid characterization followed by parametric study in order to. Gascondensate reservoirs represent an important source of hydrocarbon. When pressure decreases at reservoir temperature, a rich gas top leftt forms a higher percentage of liquid than a lean gas top rightt.
Due to the difference in mobilities caused by relative permeability, the composition of the mixture will change locally. In addition, the classification of hydrocarbon fluids can be by the composition analysis of. Results from this study show that composition varies significantly during depletion. This book presents a comparison of different methods for generating pvt properties of volatile oil and gas condensate reservoir fluids determined that pvt properties generated with the whitson and torp method agree the best with full eos compositional simulation. Considerable variations of hydrocarbon composition with depth have been reported in several north sea gascondensate fields. To obtain the socalled blackoil pvt properties bo, bg, rs, and rv of gas condensates, this.
However, the discovery pressure in the reservoir is 6998 psi, and higher than its dewpoint pressure, 5990 psi. Production performance of gas condensate reservoirs. This book is conflated based on the last scientific researches by authors and according to the last books and articles which are published in fundamentals of reservoirs engineering. The solubility of gas components and its importance in gas.
Reservoir pressure can be maintained by fluid injection if gas production is preferable to liquid production. Modeling a rich gas condensate reservoir with composition grading and faults. Compositional numerical model a case study of hai thach moc tinh fields conference paper pdf available january 2015 with 724 reads. The two important aspects of this reservoir are fieldwide composition variation and reservoir compartmentalization. Treatment of variations of composition with depth in gascondensate. Lower the reservoir pressure by a given amount typically, 200 psi.
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