
Fluid Phase Behavior for Conventional and Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs
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Key Features
- Provides tactics on reservoir phase behavior and dynamics with new information on shale oil and gas hydrates
- Helps readers Improve on the effect of salt concentration and application to C02-Acid Gas Disposal with content on water-hydrocarbon systems
- Provides practical experience with PVT and tuning of EOS with additional online excel spreadsheet examples
Readership
Petroleum Engineers, Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers. Petroleum Engineering Students – Graduate Level
Table of Contents
Chapter One. Oil and Gas Properties and Correlations
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Crude Oil Properties
- 1.3. Gas Properties
- 1.4. Interfacial Tension
Chapter Two. Equations of State
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Cubic Equation of State (EOS)
- 2.3. Noncubic EOS
- 2.4. Corresponding State Correlations
- 2.5. Mixing Rules
Chapter Three. Plus Fraction Characterization
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Experimental Methods
- 3.3. Splitting Methods
- 3.4. Properties Estimation
- 3.5. Recommended Plus Fraction Characterization Procedure
Chapter Four. Tuning Equations of State
- 4.1. Matching the Saturation Pressure Using the Extended Groups
- 4.2. Grouping Methods
- 4.3. Composition Retrieval
- 4.4. Assigning Properties to Multiple Carbon Number
- 4.5. Matching the Saturation Pressure Using the Grouped Composition
- 4.6. Volume Translation
Chapter Five. Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) Calculations
- 5.1. An Introduction to Equilibrium
- 5.2. Flash Calculations
- 5.3. Methods of Finding K-Value
- 5.4. Bubble and Dew-point Calculations
- 5.5. A Discussion on the Stability
- 5.6. Multiphase Flash Calculations
- 5.7. Calculation of Saturation Pressures With Stability Analysis
- 5.8. Identifying Phases
Chapter Six. Fluid Sampling
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Sampling Method
- 6.3. Recombination
- 6.4. PVT Tests
- 6.5. Flash Calculation
Chapter Seven. Retrograde Gas Condensate
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Gas-Condensate Flow Regions
- 7.3. Equations of State
- 7.4. Mixing Rules
- 7.5. Heavy Fractions
- 7.6. Gas Properties
Chapter Eight. Gas Hydrates
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Types and Properties of Hydrates
- 8.3. Thermodynamic Conditions for Hydrate Formation
- 8.4. Hydrate Deposition
- 8.5. Hydrate Inhibitions
Chapter Nine. Characterization of Shale Gas
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Shale Gas Reservoir Characteristics
- 9.3. Basic Science Behind Confinement
- 9.4. Effect of Confinement on Phase Envelope
Chapter Ten. Characterization of Shale Oil
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Types of Fluids in Shale Reservoirs and Genesis of Liquid in Shale Pores
- 10.3. Shale Pore Structure and Heterogeneity
- 10.4. Shale Oil Extraction
- 10.5. Including Confinement in Thermodynamics
Product details
- No. of pages: 554
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2016
- Published: November 24, 2016
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780128034460
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128034378
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Alireza Bahadori

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