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Volumetric Method
Prof Attia M. Attia
Contents
Calculating oil and gas in place by Volumetric
method
Calculation Unit Recovery from Volumetric
Gas Reservoirs
Calculation of Unit Recovery from Gas
Reservoirs under Water Drive
Recovery factor
Example
Petroleum Reservoir Engineering (Book) (Craft &Hawkins)
Volumetric Method
The volumetric method is probably the easiest method
one can use to estimate the reserves.
This method requires a limited amount of information,
and can be used even in the absence of the actual
drilling of a well. Obviously, if data can be collected
from a well, the volumetric estimates will be subject to
much less uncertainty than if no well data were
available.
In the absence of a drilled well, most of the parameters
are estimated by analogy, i.e., data based on geological
and geophysical inferences based on nearby wells.
Volumetric Estimate of
Oil Reserves
Original oil in place (OOIP)
Original oil reserves = N
pa
= N x Rf
Original solution gas in place = N x R
si
7758 (1 ) /
wi oi
N A H S B
where N
pa
is the recoverable standard barrels
of oil from the reservoir,
Ah is the reservoir volume (typically product
of area times thickness) in acre-foot,
is the fractional porosity of the reservoir,
S
wi
is the fractional residual water saturation,
B
oi
is the formation volume factor in bbl/STB,
and
R
F
is the recovery factor which is a fraction.