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1.1. General Introduction: 1.1.1. Definition of Petroleum

This document introduces the importance of predicting bubble point pressure for crude oil reservoirs. Accurate bubble point pressure prediction is important for reservoir engineering calculations and can be determined through laboratory PVT analysis, but this method is costly and time-consuming. Empirical correlations are commonly used instead to estimate bubble point pressure without PVT data. This research aims to develop a new predictive model using polynomial neural networks and evaluate it against common correlations. PVT data from multiple oilfields will be used to create and validate the new model, which will be integrated into a MATLAB GUI for industry application.

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1.1. General Introduction: 1.1.1. Definition of Petroleum

This document introduces the importance of predicting bubble point pressure for crude oil reservoirs. Accurate bubble point pressure prediction is important for reservoir engineering calculations and can be determined through laboratory PVT analysis, but this method is costly and time-consuming. Empirical correlations are commonly used instead to estimate bubble point pressure without PVT data. This research aims to develop a new predictive model using polynomial neural networks and evaluate it against common correlations. PVT data from multiple oilfields will be used to create and validate the new model, which will be integrated into a MATLAB GUI for industry application.

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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1. General Introduction

1.1.1. Definition of Petroleum

Petroleum (an equivalent term is crude oil) is a complex mixture consisting


predominantly of hydrocarbons and containing sulfur, nitrogen oxygen, and helium as
minor constituents. The physical and chemical properties of crude oils vary
considerably and are dependent on the concentration of the various types of
hydrocarbons and minor constituents present.(Tarek Ahmed, 2001)

1.1.2. Importance of PVT Analysis

An accurate description of physical properties of crude oils is of a considerable


importance in the fields of both applied and theoretical science and especially in the
solution of petroleum reservoir engineering problems.
Engineers typically require accurate estimates of crude oil properties in order to
compute oil reserves, production capacity, and recovery efficiency of a reservoir.
These properties are also used in the analysis of well test and production data, as well
as for production engineering activities such as hydrocarbon system optimization and
flow measurement.
The best source of oil property data is a laboratory PVT (pressure-volume-
temperature) analysis of a reservoir fluid sample.
Knowledge of the PVT parameters is a requirement for all types of petroleum
calculations such as determination of hydrocarbon flowing properties, predicting
future performance, designing production facilities and planning methods of enhanced
oil recovery. Over the last decade increased attention has been focused on models for
predicting reservoir fluid properties from reservoir pressure, temperature, crude oil
API gravity and gas gravity. (WILLIAM D.McCAIN1998)

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1.1.3. Importance of Bubble Point Pressure

Bubble point pressure is defined as the pressure at which the first gas bubble
evolves from liquid phase, thus differentiating between single and multi-phase state of
reservoir fluids.
Prediction of bubble point pressure ( ) is very important in reservoir and
production computation.(Tarek Ahmed, 2001)

1.1.4. Importance of Correlations

For the last 60 years, engineers realized the importance of developing and using
empirical correlations for PVT properties such as (standing1947), (Glaso1980), (Al-
Marhoun1988) (Dokla and Osman 1992), (Hanafy et al.1997).etc. Studies carried
out in this field resulted in the development of new correlations.
There are many empirical correlations for predicting PVT properties, most of them
were developed using linear or non-linear multiple regression or graphical techniques.
For developing a correlation, the geological condition must be considered
because the chemical composition of crude oil differs from region to region.
When the laboratory PVT data is not available (absence of experimentally
measured properties of reservoir fluids) the physical properties of crude oil must be
estimated from correlations.
Empirically derived correlations are used to predict the needed properties. All
computations, therefore, will depend on the accuracy of the correlations used for
predicting the fluid properties.(Elsharkawy, 1998)

1.2. Statement of Problem

As General, Bubble point pressure is determined from laboratory tests on


samples collected from separator and the bottom of the wellbore, and due to the high
cost, sampling-testing reliability and time consumed for conducting a laboratory test;
this situation leads to motivation for developing mathematical bubble point pressure
correlations.

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1.3. Research Objectives

The main objective of this study is to develop new predictive model for bubble
point pressure for Sudan crude oil by using polynomial neural network method (PNN)
and evaluate it against the common empirical correlations that can been used in the
petroleum industry.
In addition to use MATLAB software for creating guide user interfaces (GUIs)
for bubble point pressure evaluation including the new developed model.
PVT data from different oilfields (212 datasets) were used in this research.

1.4. Thesis Outlines

This research is divided into five chapters. In Chapter1, general introduction of


bubble point definition and their importance, importance of PVT analysis , importance
of correlations ,general introduction of polynomial neural network(PNN),statement of
problem and the objective of the study were provided .Chapter 2 contains the
theoretical background of bubble point pressure, general definition of artificial neural
network (ANN) and some previous studies of bubble point pressure through the world
.Chapter 3 explains the methodology of the common empirical correlations that
applied in this study, methodology of developing new model using polynomial neural
network (PNN), the statistical analysis for models evaluation and creating guide user
interface (GUI) using MATLAB software for bubble point pressure evaluation. The
results and discussions are displayed in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 contains conclusion
and recommendation.

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