SOME BASIC CONCEPTS IN RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

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PSEUDO CRITICAL PRESSURE, psia

700

650

600
MISCELLANEOUS GASES
CONDENSATE WELL FLUID

PSEUDO CRITICAL TEMPERATURE, degrees Rankine

550

500

450

400

350

300
0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.0

1.1

1.2

GAS GRAVITY (Air = 1)

Fig. 1.7

Pseudo critical properties of miscellaneous natural gases and condensate

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well fluids

c)

Direct calculation of Z-factors

The Standing-Katz correlation is very reliable and has been used with confidence by
the industry for the past thirty-five years. With the advent of computers, however, there
arose the need to find some convenient technique for calculating Zfactors, for use in
gas reservoir engineering programs, rather than feeding in the entire correlation chart
from which Zfactors could be retrieved by table look-up. Takacs14 has compared eight
different methods for calculating Zfactors which have been developed over the years.
These fall into two main categories: those which attempt to analytically curve-fit the
Standing-Katz isotherms and those which compute Zfactors using an equation of
state. Of the latter, the method of Hall-Yarborough15 is worthy of mention because it is