RESERVOIR-FLUID

PROPERTIES COURSE
Lecture(10)

PROPERTIES OF RESERVOIR WATER

Water Formation Volume Factor
Water Viscosity
Gas Solubility in Water
Water Isothermal Compressibility
PROPERTIES OF RESERVOIR WATER
Water Formation Volume Factor
The water formation volume factor can be calculated by the following
mathematical expression:
Bw  A1  A2 p  A3 p 2

the coefficients A1 to A3 are given by the following expression:

Ai  a1  a2 (T  460)  a3 (T  460) 2
.The temperature T in Equation is in °R
with a1 to a3 given for gas-free and gas-saturated water as follows:
Water Viscosity
Meehan (1980) proposed a water viscosity correlation that accounts
for both the effects of pressure and salinity:

Brill and Beggs (1978) presented a simpler equation, which considers

:only temperature effects
Gas Solubility in Water
The following correlation can be used to determine the gas
solubility in water:

The temperature T in above equations is expressed in °F.

Water Isothermal Compressibility
Brill and Beggs (1978) proposed the following equation for estimating
water isothermal compressibility, ignoring the corrections for
dissolved gas and solids: