The Effect of Water Content on the Commonly Measured Crude Oil

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Author: Azri
Bin1Abdul
Shukor
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Supervisor:
Dr.
Sia CheeDepartment
Wee
(OPU),
(OPU)

1. INTRODUCTION

3. RESULTS & DISCUSSION

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 dry oil properties. This project
is 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
the 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

All interpreted data are tabulated in the tables as

Tablefollowing:
1: The Effect of Water Content to Density of
the Dulang Crude Oil
Water Content (%)

25oC

Density (lb/ft3)
50oC

75oC

0
1
2
3
4
5
10

Table 2: The Effect of Water Content to Density of

the Castella Crude Oil
Water Content (%)

25oC

Density (lb/ft3)
50oC

75oC

0
1
2
3
4
5
10

Table 3: The Effect of Water Content to Viscosity of

the Dulang Crude Oil
Water Content (%)

25oC

Viscosity (cp)
50oC

75oC

0
1
2
3
4
5
10

2. METHODOLOGY
START

PRELIMINARY STUDY

Table 4: The Effect of Water Content to Viscosity

of the Castella Crude Oil
Water Content (%)

PRE-EXPERIMENTAL WORK

EXPERIMENTAL WORK

25oC

Viscosity (cp)
50oC

75oC

0
1
2
3
4
5
10

RESULT & ANALYSIS

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
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

Figure 1: T70 Titrator

Figure 2: Densitometer

4. CONCLUSIONS

Figure 3: EV 1000

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.

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