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Solution Gas Drive Mechanism Explained in Material Balance Equation
Material balance equation can be applied for any drive mechanism and this article demonstrates how to apply the material balance equation in a solution drive mechanism. For a solution drive mechanism,...
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Common Crude Oil Properties in Petroleum Industry (Video Training)
Crude oil properties are important for us to understand what they mean and how they will affect us. The most commonly measured properties of crude oil are specific gravity or API gravity, viscosity,...
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Material Balance for Gas Cap Drive Mechanism
This article will demonstrate a material balance equation in gas cap drive mechanism. First, we start with a full material balance equation. Figure 1 – Full Material Balance Equation Assumptions No...
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Material Balance for a Water Drive Mechanism
This article will demonstrate a material balance equation in a natural water drive mechanism. A full material balance equation is shown below: Figure 1 – Full Material Balance Equation Assumptions...
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Material Balance for Gas Reservoir
For gas reservoirs, the material balance concept can be applied to determine gas in place and expected gas reservoir reserve. Gas Production = Expansion of Free Gas In Reservoir Assumption: Dry gas...
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Determine Quantity of Material Used in Mixing a Simple Drilling Mud
This is a simple example to demonstrate how to determine quantity of material required in a simple mixing system. Let’s learn from the example below. The objective is to build mud which has a weight of...
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Volumetric Method To Estimate Volume In Place and Reserves
Volumetric is a method to estimate fluid in reservoir based on volume of pore space in a rock and water saturation. Volume of Oil Initially In Place (OIIP) To estimate oil initially volume in place,...
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API and HTHP Fluid Loss
Fluid loss is one of important drilling fluid properties and two type of fluid loss are API and HTHP fluid loss. This article will explain about both of them and effect on the drilling operation. API...
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Mud Filter Cake
Mud filter cake is a layer formed by solid particles in drilling mud against porous zones due to differential pressure between hydrostatic pressure and formation pressure. For the drilling operation,...
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Determine Compressibility of Gases
This article will demonstrate how to determine gas compressibility by using simplified equation of state. At a low pressure condition, gas similarly behaves like ideal gas and the equation for the...
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Example of Real Gas Calculation
This example will demonstrate how to calculate the compressibility of real gas in order to determine gas density and specific gravity at a specific condition. Calculate the following based on the given...
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Solid Content in Drill Mud
Solid content is a fraction of the total solid in drilling mud, and it always increases while drilling ahead because of drilling solid (cuttings), mud chemical additives and weighting material. Solid...
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Pemex oil facility explosion in Coatzacoalcos
Safety is very crucial in oil and gas industry. We wish most of people would be safe and the situation would be back to normal soon. MEXICO CITY, April 20 (Reuters) – A massive explosion rocked a major...
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pH in Drilling Mud (Water Based Mud)
pH is a value representing the hydrogen ion concentration in liquid and it is used to indicate acidity or alkalinity of drilling mud. The pH is presented in a numerical value (0-14), which means an...
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Pm, Pf and Mf are values indicating the alkalinity of drilling mud and the following is meaning of each value. Pm Pm stands for “phenolphthalein end point of the mud” and it indicates quantities of...
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Total Hardness and Chloride Content in Water Based Mud
“Total Hardness” or “Water Hardness” is a measurement of calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg 2+) ions in water base mud. The total of both soluble ions of calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg 2+) is given by...
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Offshore Crane Failure Case Study
Offloading equipment from a supply boat is one of the normal lifting operations for offshore rig. Therefore, it is very imperative to follow safety work practices while working with the crane. Crane...
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What is Open Hole Completion?
Open hole completion or bare foot completion is one type of completion where the production casing is set on top of the reservoir, but the open hole section is left without cemented casing. Typically,...
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Determine Compressibility Factor with Present of CO2 and H2S
This example will demonstrate how to determine the compressibility factor (z) for gas with CO2 and H2S. As it is described in the article,Determine Compressibility of Gases , it states that gas with...
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Halliburton and Baker Hughes abandon $34.6bn Takeover
Breaking NEWS for our industry!! US oil services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes have called off their proposed merger after resistance from regulators in the US and Europe. The deal, announced...
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