Pvtsim: The Olga 2000 Fluid Property Package
Pvtsim: The Olga 2000 Fluid Property Package
Pvtsim: The Olga 2000 Fluid Property Package
• PVTsim
– On the market since 1991
– Developed for process, reservoir and laboratory
engineers
– More than 200 installations worldwide
– Customers include:
Statoil, Shell, BP, Chevron, Norsk Hydro, Agip,
TotalFinaElf, Saudi Aramco, Amerada Hess,
Phillips, Maersk, Unocal, CoreLab, Oilphase and
many others
PVTsim OLGA Version
• Limited version of full PVTsim package
– additional modules available through Calsep
• PVTsim can be used to
– characterize fluids
– tune saturation points
– mix fluids by volume, by weight or on molar basis
– make P,T flash calculations
– make phase envelopes
– calculate various fluid properties
– make OLGA fluid property tables (.tab files)
Base Models in PVTsim
MWN = 14 CN - 4
• Surface Tension
– Gas/oil: Weinaug & Katz 1943
– Gas/pure water: API Technical databook, 1983
– Oil/pure water: API Technical databook, 1983
– Gas/salt water & oil/salt water: Firoozabadi &
Ramey, 1988
OLGA Tables Content
• General specification
– Pressure, temperature, total water mass fraction,
gas mass fraction, water vapor fraction of gas,
• Physical properties for each phase
– density
– density derivatives
– enthalpy
– heat capacity
– entropy
– viscosity
– thermal conductivity
– surface tension
OLGA Tables - Water Flashing
6000
Crit P
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
-100 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
Tem pe rature /°F
PVTsim - OLGA 2000 Input
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