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Assignment - Natural Gas Engineering Course 2022

The document outlines 15 questions for a natural gas engineering course assignment. The questions cover topics such as classifying natural gas reservoirs, assessing environmental impacts of natural gas production, defining natural gas properties, using phase diagrams to classify reservoirs, performing flash calculations, calculating gas production rates, sizing separators and contactors, and modeling pipeline flow. Students are asked to provide details, perform calculations, and construct graphs to demonstrate their understanding of key natural gas engineering concepts.

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Assignment - Natural Gas Engineering Course 2022

The document outlines 15 questions for a natural gas engineering course assignment. The questions cover topics such as classifying natural gas reservoirs, assessing environmental impacts of natural gas production, defining natural gas properties, using phase diagrams to classify reservoirs, performing flash calculations, calculating gas production rates, sizing separators and contactors, and modeling pipeline flow. Students are asked to provide details, perform calculations, and construct graphs to demonstrate their understanding of key natural gas engineering concepts.

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Natural Gas Engineering Course

Assignment – Dec. 2022

1- Classify types of natural gas reservoirs and give a real example for each type with (location,
reserve volume, country, company, production, and any other relevant information)
2- Assess the environmental impacts of natural gas (exploration, production, processing and
utilization) versus the conventional oil.
3- Define the following natural gas properties (in details):
• Apparent molecular weight
• Specific gravity
• Compressibility factor
• Density
• Specific volume
• Isothermal gas compressibility coefficient
• Gas formation volume factor
• Gas expansion factor
• Viscosity
4- Use the two-phase diagram and liquid volume diagram to classify reservoirs (oil and gas) and
show the pressure-temperature path according to the prospective of production engineering
and reservoir engineering.

5- Define and explain Flash Calculation


6- A hydrocarbon mixture with the following overall composition is flashed in a separator at 50
psia and 100°F
Component zi
C3 0.20
i – C4 0.10
n – C4 0.10
i – C5 0.20
n – C5 0.20
C6 0.20
Assuming an ideal solution behavior, perform flash calculations

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7- A gas reservoir has the following characteristics: Area = (your student index number) acres, h
= 30 ft, porosity= 0.15, Swi = 20%, T = 150°F , pi = 2600 psi,
p z______
2600 0.82
1000 0.88
400 0.92
Calculate cumulative gas production and recovery factor at 1000 and 400 psi

8- A gas well produces 0.65 specific gravity natural gas with N2> CO2, and H2S of mole
fractions 0.1, 0.08, and 0.02, respectively. The average reservoir pressure is 4,505 psia.
Reservoir temperature is 180 0F. The well was tested at two flow rates:
Test point 1:
Flow rate1,152 Mscf/d
Bottom hole pressure: 3,025 psia
Test point 2:
Flow rate: 1,548 Mscf/d
Bottom hole pressure: 1,685 psia
Construct IPR curve with both Forchheimer and backpressure equations

9- Suppose that a vertical well produces 2 MMscf/d of 0.71 gas specific gravity gas through a 2
7/8-in tubing set to the top of a gas reservoir at a depth of (student index number) ft. At
tubing head, the pressure is 800 psia and the temperature is 150 0F; the bottom hole
temperature is 200 0F. The relative roughness of tubing is about 0.0006. Calculate the
pressure profile along the tubing length and plot the results.

10- A 0.65 specific gravity natural gas flows from a 2-in pipe through a 1.5-in nozzle-type choke.
The upstream pressure and temperature are 100 psia and 70 0F, respectively. The
downstream pressure is 80 psia (measured 2 ft from the nozzle). The gas specific heat ratio is
1.25.
(a) What is the expected daily flow rate?
(b) Is icing a potential problem?
(c) What is the expected pressure at the nozzle outlet?

11- Use the following given data to estimate gas production rate of the well:
Gas-specific gravity: 0.71
Tubing inside diameter: 2.259 in
Tubing wall relative roughness: 0.0006
Measured depth at tubing shoe: (Student Index) ft
Inclination angle: 10°
Wellhead choke size: 16 1/64 in
Flowline diameter: 2 in
Gas-specific heat ratio: 1.3
Gas viscosity at wellhead: 0.01 cp
Wellhead temperature: 50 0C

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Bottom hole temperature: 100 0C
Reservoir pressure: 2,000 psia
C-constant in backpressure IPR model: 0.01 Mscf/dpsi2n
n-exponent in backpressure IPR model: 0.8

12- Calculate the minimum required size of a standard oil/gas separator for the following
conditions. Consider both vertical and horizontal separators.
Gas flow rate: 5.0 MMscfd
Gas-specific gravity: 0.7
Condensate flow rate: 20 bbl/MMscf
Condensate gravity: 60 0API
Operating pressure: 800 psig
Operating temperature: 80 0F

13- Design a trayed-type glycol contactor for a field installation to meet the following
requirements:
Gas flow rate: 12 MMscfd
Gas specific gravity: 0.75
Operating line pressure: 900 psig
Maximum working pressure of contactor: 1,440 psig
Gas inlet temperature: 90 0F
Outlet gas water content: 6 Ib H2O/MMscf
Design criteria: GWR = 3 gal TEG/lbm H2O with 99.5% TEG

14- Assuming the overall efficiency is 0.80, calculate the theoretical and brake horsepower
required to compress 1 MMcfd of a 0.6- specific gravity natural gas from 100 psia and 80 0F
to 1,600 psia. If intercoolers cool the gas to 80 0F, what is the heat load on the intercoolers
and what is the final gas temperature?

15- For the following data given for a horizontal pipeline, predict gas flow rate in cubic ft/hr
through the pipeline:
Diameter = 12 in
Length = (student index)
Roughness = 0.0006 in
Temp = 30 C
Specific gravity = 0.7
P1= 600 psia
P2 = 200 psia

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