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Correlations To Determine Retrograde Dew Pressure and C 7 Percentage of Gas
Condensate Reservoirs on Basis of Production Test Data of Eastern
Venezuelan Fields
ILsis Marruffo*, PDVSA, Jose Maita, Jesus Him*, Gonzalo Rojas*, Universidad de Oriente. *SPE
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 30 April2 May 2002.
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Abstract
In this paper are presented new correlations to determine the
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dew point pressure and C7 content of gas condensate
reservoirs, based on production fields parameters usually
available. To develop these correlations it were collected 146
PVT analyses of Venezuela (Anaco) fields: San Joaquin: 42 ;
Santa Rosa: 26 ; El Roble: 16 ; Guario: 4 ; Santa Ana: 3 ; El
Toco: 3 ; Zapatos: 15 ; Mata-R: 15 ; Aguasay: 13 ; La Ceibita:
5 ; Carisito: 4.
The PVT results were validated through consistence tests:
mathematical recombination and mass balance. After these
steps an statistical analysis of the variables was done.
For this, statistical methods were used and they were focused
on multiple no linear regressions.
The correlations's accuracy was the following: dew point
pressure showed 5.74 % of average error with a correlation
coefficient of 0.82 based on 80 PVTs data, the first C7+
content correlation showed 9.59 % of average error with a
correlation coefficient of 0.98 based on 81 PVTs data, the
second C7+ content correlation showed 7.85 % of average
error with a correlation coefficient of 0.99 based on 90
PVTs data.
The new retrograde dew point correlation obtained improves
the Nemeth and Kennedy`s (10) that forecast dew points with
9.69 % of average error when it is applied on 54 Anacos PVT
analyses which had all the compositional information that it
requires; with the new dew point correlation the average error
was 5 % for the same data. These new correlations allow to
improve the characterization and exploitation plans of gas
condensate reservoirs without PVT information.
Introduction
Anaco area has been one of the most important venezuelan
petroleum operational districts and it has a high number of gas
condensate reservoirs. Due to the importance of gas
exploitation in this area, it is fundamental the development of
new technologies that allow their efficient characterization and
exploitation. There are two basic parameters of the gas
condensate reservoirs: the dew pressure and the heavy
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components content (C7 ), since retrograde condensation
occurs when the pressure reservoir falls below it. They are
rather available for this kind of reservoirs, and in order to get
them it was necessary to develop new correlations to estimate
them based on field parameters easily and usually available.
These parameters are: condensate API gravity, gas/condensate
production ratio and in some cases separator gas gravity and
reservoir temperature.
The selected PVT analyses passed the consistent tests of
mathematical recombination and the mass balance of the
constant volume depletion experiment (CVD), this allowed to
verify that those samples were in thermodynamic equilibrium
at each pressure depletion level. Finally, a nonlinear regression
software was used to fit appropriate models to the data.
Data Description
The collection of PVT data, included the PVT reports of the
Greater Oficina Area as well as the Greater Anaco Area. The
total PVT data included 146 analyses. After the process of
selection and validation, it was obtained a consistent PVT
data base of 114 tests. After a dispersion analyses, the final
data base to develop the new correlations was reduced to
106 PVTs.
Correlations Development
The equations were developed through a commercial
nonlinear regression software to fit appropriate models. The
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ones for C7 content were developed using a matrix to connect
all the independent parameters or variables. To develop the
dew point correlations, it was used the multiple non linear
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First C7 correlation:
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%C7 = (GCR).....................................................................(1)
GCR
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%C7 =
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0.8207
....................................................(2)
..............................(4)
0.8499
GCR
K2
Pd = K1 *
C 7 K 3
* K 8 * API K 4*Tr
K5
K 6*C
K7
(6)
Where:
K1 = 346.7764689,K2 = 0.0974139,K3 =-0.294782419.
K4 =-0.047833243,K5 =0.281255219,K6 =0.00068358.
K7 =1.906328237,K8 =8.417626216.
This equation has the same form of Gulf of Mxico correlation
for bubble point (Ref. 5)
TABLE 1-DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA USED FOR THE CORRELATIONS
Number of PVT
C7
First
Correlation
PVT Properties
Minimum
Maximum
81
Gas Condensate
Ratio (SCF/STB)
3084
253130
90
Gas Condensate
Ratio (SCF/STB)
2577
253130
Specific gas
separator gravity
(SSG).
0,655
0,904
Gas Condensate
Ratio (SCF/STB)
2000
200.000
0,37
39
160
15,15
61
352
C7 Second
Correlation
Dew point
Correlation
80
Percentage of C
API
Temperature F
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SCR
SCT
R2
R
AVERA
GE OF
30,3*10
0.12
0.34
RESIDUA
LS
AVERAG
NEW
CORRELATION
3*10
6
6
27,9*10
0.89
1
0.95
399.7
5
201
9.69
16
14
C 7 = 10260*(GCR*SSG)
-0,8499
R 2 = 0,9874; R=0,99
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CORRELATIONOFNE
METH
ANDKENNEDY
33,9*10 6
18
10
%C7
E
ERRO
0
0
20000
40000
60000
14
80000
GCRXSSG
%C 7 = (GCR/70680)
-0,8207
16
R = 0,9604; R = 0,98
10
14
2
R =0.9727,R=0.98
%C7
12
C7 calculated
10
6
4
0
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
GCR(SCF/STB)
+
C7
( 81 PVTs)
0
0
10
12
14
16
C7 observed
14
12
%C7 calculated
R =0.9725,R=0.98
10
0
0
%C
observed
10
12
14
6000
5000
5000
2
R =0.6735,R=0.82
4000
Pd.calculated
Pd.Calculated(lpcm)
6000
3000
4000
3000
2000
2000
1000
1000
0
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
1000
Serie1
6000
3000
4000
5000
Serie2
6000
New Correlation of Pd
5000
= 0.2099,R =0.45
4000
Pd.Calculated
2000
3000
2000
1000
1000
2000
3000
P d.O b served
4000
5000
6000
6000
5000
Pd. Calculated
R =0.731,R=0.85
4000
Correlated
No.
Error ( %)
3000
1000
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
Pd. Observed
6000
Nomenclature
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% C7
Percentage of heptane plus
Pd
Dew point pressure, psia
GCR
Gas Condensate Ratio, SCF/STB
SSG
Specific gas separator gravity ( air=1)
API
API condensate gravity
Tr
Reservoir temperature,F
R
Correlation Coefficient among variables
R2
Determination Coefficient among variables
% Error
Average error, %
Yi
Observed or experimental value( available data)
y
Estimated or calculated value by a correlation
ei
residual
SCR
Sum of regression squares
SCT
Sum of total squares
SCE
Sum of squares for error ( nor explained by the
regression)
Ki
Regression coefficients of the correlations
Ei
Relative error percentage
Ea
Absolute average error percentage
N
Number of values corresponding to certain data
Acknowledgments
The authors want to thank to PDVSA-Puerto La Cruz
Exploration and Production to allow us to develop this work,
and to Dr. Jaime Almeida (PDVSA-Intevep) for his help in
results discussion.
References
1. Marruffo, I; Cabrera, J; Contreras N., Fonseca ;: Estudio
Integrado Carisito-Aguasay Central. PDVSA. Junio.
(2000).
Inventario de PVTs,
Tomos de
PVTsValidacin de Informes PVT. Campo Carisito,
Aguasay C y Zapatos. CDG-Produccin
Puerto
la Cruz.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
9.
10. Nemeth,L.K. y
Kennedy, H.T.: A Correlation of
Dewpoint Pressure with Fluid Composition and
Temperature. SPE Paper Number 1477. Junio.
Texas. (1979).
Appendix-Statistical Parameters
The following statistical equations were used for the
correlation development:
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SCR
......................(A-
Yi Yi
Ei =
*100 ......................................(A-4)
Yi
Ea =
1 n Ei ................................................................(A-5)
n i 1