D
Dalton’s Law, 1029, 1037
Darcy’s Law, 222, 331
Dead-oil viscosity, 109
Deliverability equation, 543
Density calculations, 1072
Depletion-drive mechanism, 719
Desaturating process, 204
Dew-point, 11
curve, 3
Dew-point pressure, 3, 1109
definition of, 1053, 1125
methods of determining, 1125,
1131
Differential equation, 1060
Differential liberation, 143
Differential separation, 1060
Diffusivity equation, 371
Dimensionless
diffusivity equation, 385
gravity number, 987
pressure, 284
radius, 284
time, 284
Dip angle, 890
Displacement efficiency (E
D
),
880, 937
Displacement pressure, 202
Downdip flow, 891, 892
Drainage process, 285
Drawdown test, 443
Driving mechanisms, 718, 857, 861
combination, 735
depletion, 719
gas-cap, 721, 862
gravity-drainage, 730
solution gas, 719, 863
water-drive, 726, 862
Dry-gas reservoirs, 15
Dykstra-Parsons
oil recovery prediction method,
1006
permeability variation method,
256, 998, 1002
sequencing technique, 996
E
E
i
-function, 375
Edge-water drive, 654
Edmister correlation, 1108
Effective
permeability, 280
porosity, 185
wellbore radius, 426
End-point mobility ratio, 987
Energy plots, 837
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR), 857
Equation(s) of state, 1084
applications, 1124
cubic, 1088
Peng-Robinson, 1112, 1133,
1135
Redlich-Kwong, 1092
Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK),
1098, 1135
Van der Waals, 1084
vapor pressure, 1135
Equilibrium ratio, 1029
applications, 1052
Campbell’s method, 1051
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