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TECHNOLOGY FORUM 2014

Technology:Toward Strengthening Upstream Excellence

The Effect of Water Content on the Commonly Measured Crude Oil

Properties

. METHODOLOGY

4. CONCLUSIONS

. INTRODUCTION

Author: Azri Bin Abdul Shukor (14423)

Supervisor: Dr. Sia Chee Wee

Abstract: This project is about the effect of water content on the most crude oil

properties (density and viscosity) measured in the field. In the oil field, the limit of

basic sediment and water (BS&W) content has been set to below than 1.0% as the

water content is below the limit, it will represent the dryoil properties. This project

s conducted to investigate on the various percentage of water content effect to the

crude oil properties stated. The coulemetric Karl Fischer Titration is used as it has high

precision and accuracy in determining the percentage of water content. The expected

result from this project is the real values for the two crude oil properties when tested

with different percentage of water content with different type of crude oils (Dulang and

Castella). These values will be able to represent the crude oil properties in the field if

he experiment is successful.

Problem Statement

The water content in the experiment conducted in laboratory for density and viscosity

measurement is less than 1.0%. However, the crude oil received from the separator

normally much higher than that, around 3-5% more. Thus, all samples are required to

be sent to the lab to find the real density and viscosity of the crude oil which consume

a lot of cost and time.

Objectives

To investigate the water content effect on density and viscosity of crude oil

To investigate the degree of error contributed by water content to different types of

crude oil

Scopes of study

Study the effect of water content on density and viscosity of crude oil

Analyze the degree of error by contributed by water content on the crude oil

properties

EXPERIMENTAL WORK

PRELIMINARY STUDY

PRE-EXPERIMENTAL WORK

START

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

PART 1: Background search and literature review

PART 2: Potential equipment consideration and samples preparation

PART 3: Experiment begin

PART 4: Compare experimental result with theoretical result

All interpreted data are tabulated in the tables as

following:Table 1: The Effect of Water Content to Density of

the Dulang Crude Oil

Table 2: The Effect of Water Content to Density of

the Castella Crude Oil

Table 3: The Effect of Water Content to Viscosity of

the Dulang Crude Oil

Table 4: The Effect of Water Content to Viscosity

of the Castella Crude Oil

3. RESULTS & DISCUSSION

At the end of this experiment, a lot of new data about the crude oil properties at different

percentage of the crude oil will be obtained. The limitation in determining the

measurement of viscosity and density of crude oil which is water content of less than

1.0% can be increased further. A new type of formula can be made to find the desired

value of the properties within the range of the experiment conducted, thus will be able to

avoid time wasting and budget.

The density of both crude oils are expected to decrease as the percentage of water

content decrease. For the crude oil viscosity, the expected result are the viscosity value

will decrease from the actual value as the percentage of the water content increase

RESULT & ANALYSIS

Water Content (%)Density (lb/ft3)

25oC 50oC 75oC

0

1

2

3

4

5

10

Water Content (%)Density (lb/ft3)

25oC 50oC 75oC

0

1

2

3

4

5

10

Water Content (%)Viscosity (cp)

25oC 50oC 75oC

0

1

2

34

5

10

Water Content (%)Viscosity (cp)

25oC 50oC 75oC

0

1

2

3

4

5

10

Figure 1: T70 Titrator Figure 3: EV 1000Figure 2: Densitometer