Oil properties

The flowrate of oil into the wellbore is also influenced by the reservoir properties of permeability (k) and reservoir thickness (h), by the oil properties viscosity (p) and formation volume factor (BJ and by any change in the resistance to flow near the wellbore which is represented by the dimensionless term called skin (S). For semisteady state f/owbehaviour (when the effect of the producing well is seen at all boundaries of the reservoir) the radial inflow for oil into a vertical wellbore is represented by the equation ... 

Primary production typically recovers 10—25% of the oil originally ia the reservoir. Efficiency of primary production is related to oil properties, reservoir properties, geometric placement of oil wells, and the drilling and completion technology used to drill the wells and prepare them for production. Pumping the well can maintain production at economic levels for years. 

By 1980, research and development shifted from relatively inexpensive surfactants such as petroleum sulfonates to more cosdy but more effective surfactants tailored to reservoir and cmde oil properties. Critical surfactant issues are performance in saline injection waters, adsorption on reservoir rock, partitioning into reservoir cmde oil, chemical stabiUty in the reservoir, interactions with the mobiUty control polymer, and production problems caused by resultant emulsions. Reservoir heterogeneity can also greatly reduce process effectiveness. The decline in oil prices in the early 1980s halted much of the work because of the relatively high cost of micellar processes. 

As a starting point, the book reviews the general properties of the raw materials. This is followed by the different techniques used to convert these raw materials to the intermediates, which are further reacted to produce the petrochemicals. The first chapter deals with the composition and the treatment techniques of natural gas. It also reviews the properties, composition, and classification of various crude oils. Properties of some naturally occurring carbonaceous substances such as coal and tar sand are briefly noted at the end of the chapter. These materials are targeted as future energy and chemical sources when oil and natural gas are depleted. Chapter 2 summarizes the important properties of hydrocarbon intermediates and petroleum fractions obtained from natural gas and crude oils. 

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Agricultural processing will still incorporate solvents. As an example, soybean flakes were extracted with supercritical carbon dioxide to produce a solvent-free, good-quality soybean oil. During the SFE process, volatile compounds were trapped on a porous polymer trap attached at the exhaust port of the SFE apparatus. The volatile profile obtained from the sorbent trap was found to be similar to the headspace profile from the SFE/soybean oil removed during the same extraction. In addition, crude soybean oil was heated in a stirred reactor and the volatiles, which were stripped by supercritical carbon dioxide in an attempt to improve oil properties, were collected on sorbent traps and analyzed by the above method for comparison. The described methodology permits the characterization of volatiles and semivolatUes in SEE soybean oil and can be used to monitor the extraction and quality of the resultant oil (Snyder and King, 1994). 

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These properties are defined in this chapter. The physical processes involved in the way black oil properties change as reservoir pressure is reduced at constant temperature are explained. Later chapters address methods of determining values of these properties using field data, laboratory fluid studies, and correlations. 

This assumption implies that gas and liquid in the reservoir separate as the gas is formed. One can argue that this is not strictly true. However, a laboratory process that more accurately represents the production process would be complicated and expensive and would require excessively large samples of reservoir liquids. Experience has shown that black oil properties calculated under this assumption are sufficiently accurate for reservoir engineering calculations. 

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