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HYDROCARBON PHASE BEHAVIOUR
This subject has been covered extensively in specialist books8,13,18 and is described here in a…
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GAS MATERIAL BALANCE: RECOVERY FACTOR
The material balance equation, for any hydrocarbon system, is simply a volume balance which equates…
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APPLICATION OF THE REAL GAS EQUATION OF STATE
The determination of the Z−factor as a function of pressure and temperature facilitates the use…
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The Z-factor correlation of Standing and Katz
This correlation requires a knowledge of the composition of the gas or, at least, the…
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VOLUMETRIC GAS RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
Volumetric gas reservoir engineering is introduced at this early stage in the book because of…
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OIL RECOVERY: RECOVERY FACTOR
Equation (1.2), for the STOIIP, can be converted into an equation for calculating the ultimate…
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FLUID PRESSURE REGIMES
The total pressure at any depth, resulting from the combined weight of the formation rock…
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BASIC CONCEPTS IN RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
In the process of illustrating the primary functions of a reservoir engineer, namely, the estimation…
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Formation damage
Producing formation damage has been defined as the impairment of the unseen by the inevitable,…
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Formation damage from paraffins and asphaltenes
Perhaps the most common formation damage problem reported in the mature oil-producing regions of the…