Lectures
- Lecture 0 - Fall Introduction [PDF]
- Lecture 1 - Organic Chemistry [PDF]
- Lecture 2 - Alkanes [PDF]
- Lecture 3 - Alkenes Alkynes[PDF]
- Lecture 4 - Aromatics [PDF]
- Lecture 5 - Pure Substances [PDF]
- Lectures 6&7 - Two and Three Component Mixtures[PDF]
- Lecture 8 - Five Reservoir Fluids [PDF]
- Lectures 9 Ideal Gases [PDF]
- Lecture 10 - Real Gases [PDF]
- Lecture 11 - Real Gases - SPE Paper 26668 [PDF] (see paper from reading material)
- Lecture 12 - Standard Conditions- Bg, Viscosity (with example of Gas Properties for Reservoir Engineering) [PDF]
- Lecture 13 Cg-Heating Value [PDF]
- Lecture 14 - Wet Gases [PDF]
- Lecture 15 - Black Oil Definitions [PDF]
- Lecture 16 - Field Data[PDF]
- Lecture 17 - Reservoir Fluid Studies [PDF]
- Lectures 18&19 - Properties of Black Oils and Reservoir Fluid Studies Report [ PDF]
- Lecture 20 - Properties from Reservoir Fluid Studies [PDF]
- Lectures 21 - Black Oils Correlations (pb, Rs) JCPT Method [PDF
- Lectures 22 & 23 - Consolidate Oil Reservoir Density Calculations and Oil Viscosity [PDF]
- Lecture 24-25- Ideal Solutions Exercises [PDF]
- Lecture 26 - Non-Ideal VLE [PDF]
- Lecture 27-28 - Surface Separators [PDF]
In construction
- Lecture 29 - Equilibrium Ratio Correlations (K-values)
[PDF] - Lectures 30-31 - Properties of Oilfield Waters [PDF]
- Lectures 32-33 - Gas Hydrates [PDF]
- Lecture 34-35 - Equations of State [PDF]
Administrative Tools
Laboratories (Virtual & Wet)
Lab # 1 Materials
- Orientation Tape 1
- Virtual PVT cell Instructions Tape 2
- PVT Cell Manual
- Safety Instructions and in [PDF]
- Units Converter
- SOPE (Software) zipped Will be used in other labs
Lab # 2 Materials
- Determination of Vapor Pressure Instructions
- Pure Components Data File (Excel)
- Determination of vapor pressure - how to do it tape with hints - Tape 1
- Vapor pressure calculations - Tape 2
Lab #3 Materials
- Determination of the Gas Compressibility Z-Factor Instructions
- How to determine the Z-factor - Hints - Tape 1
- Z-factor Calculations and More - Tape 2
- Excel File - Leak Procedure
Lab#4 Materials
- Bubblepoint and Dewpoint Determination and Retrograde Behavior Instructions
- Excel file - Phase Envelope Calculation Procedures
- Phase Boundaries... how to do it (hints) Tape 1
- Phase Boundaries... how to do it (more hints) Tape 2
- Phase Boundaries... how to do it (last set of instructions) Tape 3
Lab#5 Materials
- Reservoir Fluid Studies (DL, CCE, Separator Tests) Instructions
- Resevoir Fluid Studies How to do It (plus hints) Tape 1
- Excel File - Reservoir Fluid Studies PVT Simulator
Rest of Labs Under construction
Goodies & Solved Exercices
- Pure Component Phase Diagram
- Pure Components Data
- Accuracy Clip
- Precision Clip
- Accuracy and Precision Clip
- Automatic Ternary Plots
- Measuring Compositions
- Fluid Properties Calculations
- Ideal Gas Exercises Ideal Gas Laws
- Gas Material Balance Spreadsheet [Excel]
- Recombination Exercise [Excel]
- Lunch & Learn Presentation - An Introduction to Reservoir Fluid Sampling and Analysis
- Gas Correlations Excel file
- Separator Calculations Excel File
- Chapter 11 Examples
- Calculation Methods Black Oil Correlations
[Excel] - Vapor Liquid Equilibrium VLE
- Water Properties
- Radial Flow of Crude Oils [DOC] [PDF]
- Black Oil PVT Study
- PVT Excel File
- SPE Presentation - Reservoir Fluid Properties
Journal Articles - Reading Material
'Heavy Components Control Reservoir Fluid Behavior', William D. McCain Jr, JPT September, 1994
"Compressibility Factors for naturally Ocurring Petroleum Gases", SPE 26668 - L.D. Piper, W.D. McCain, S. A.. Holdtich, 1993
"Two-Phase Compressibility Factors for Retrograde Gases" - SPE20055 - D.G. Rayes, L.D. Piper, W.D. McCain, and S.W. Poston
"Correlation of Black Oil Properties at Pressures Below Bubblepoint Pressure—A New Approach" J.Velarde, T.A. Blasingame, and W.D. McCain, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology , 1999, Vol 38., No. 13
Prediction of Heavy Oil Viscosity - Trevor Bennison - Heavy Oil Field Dev. Conference London 1998