Petroleum Engineering Timeline
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Petroleum Engineering Timeline is a timeline which describes the evolution of the Petroleum Engineering over time.
From the first well drilled, first PVT correlation, first multiphase flow correlation, through the first computer to the modern reservoir simulator.
Timeline
| Year | Author | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1859 | Drake well | First oil well drilled |
| 1942 | Standing and Katz | Gas Z factor is part of the PVT tool coded with the Dranchuk correlation |
| 1947 | Standing | Pb & Rs, Bo |
| 1965 | Hagedorn and Brown | Oil Multiphase flow correlation is coded in the PQplot as default oil VLP correlation |
| Oil FVF | McCain | W.D. McCain, Jr: The Properties of Petroleum Fluids, Second edition, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1990. |
| Oil viscosity | Beggs and Robinson | Vazquez, M. and Beggs, H.D. 1980. Correlations for Fluid Physical Property Prediction. J Pet Technol 32 (6): 968-970. SPE-6719-PA. |
| Oil compressibility | Farshad | Frashad, F., LeBlanc, J.L., Garber, J.D. et al. 1996. Empirical PVT Correlations For Colombian Crude Oils. SPE-36105-MS. http://petrowiki.org/Calculating_PVT_properties |
| Z factor | Dranchuk | Dranchuk, P.M. and Abou-Kassem, H. 1975. Calculation of Z Factors For Natural Gases Using Equations of State. J Can Pet Technol 14 (3): 34. PETSOC-75-03-03. |
| Gas density | Standard equation | http://petrowiki.org/Gas_formation_volume_factor_and_density |
| Gas FVF | Standard equation | http://petrowiki.org/Gas_formation_volume_factor_and_density |
| Gas viscosity | Lee | Lee, A.L., Gonzalez, M.H., and Eakin, B.E. 1966. The Viscosity of Natural Gases. J Pet Technol 18 (8): 997–1000. SPE-1340-PA. |
| Gas compressibility | Standard equation | http://petrowiki.org/Isothermal_compressibility_of_gases |
| Water density | McCain | McCain Jr., W.D. 1991. Reservoir-Fluid Property Correlations-State of the Art. SPE Res Eng 6 (2): 266-272. SPE-18571-PA. |
