Natural water drive, as distinct from water injection, has already been qualitatively described, in Chapter…

A typical gascap drive reservoir is shown in fig. 3.6. Under initial conditions the oil…

Since the advent of sophisticated numerical reservoir simulation techniques, the Schilthuis material balance equation has…

The general form of the material balance equation was first presented by Schilthuis1 in 1941.…

These additional measurements will be briefly discussed in section 2.6. For the moment, the essential…

Samples of the reservoir fluid are usually collected at an early stage in the reservoir's…

The Pressure−Volume−Temperature relation for a real gas can be uniquely defined by the simple equation…

This subject has been covered extensively in specialist books8,13,18 and is described here in a…

The material balance equation, for any hydrocarbon system, is simply a volume balance which equates…

The determination of the Z−factor as a function of pressure and temperature facilitates the use…