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    Gas-Cap Expansion Drive / Gas Cap Drive

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    Imran Shahzad Khan
    Gas can separate from oil and form a gas cap above the oil if reservoir pressure drops to or falls below the bubble point pressure of the oil. As gas comes out of solution, the viscosity and mobility of the oil increases. In a gas cap drive reservoir, production occurs mainly through the expansion of the gas cap as it moves towards the wellbore, differing from a solution gas drive where production is driven by gas coming out of solution. The oil production rate and gas-oil ratio of a gas cap drive reservoir vary from those of a solution gas drive.

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    Gas-Cap Expansion Drive / Gas Cap Drive

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    Gas can separate from oil and form a gas cap above the oil if reservoir pressure drops to or falls below the bubble point pressure of the oil. As gas comes out of solution, the viscosity and mobility of the oil increases. In a gas cap drive reservoir, production occurs mainly through the expansion of the gas cap as it moves towards the wellbore, differing from a solution gas drive where production is driven by gas coming out of solution. The oil production rate and gas-oil ratio of a gas cap drive reservoir vary from those of a solution gas drive.

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    Gas can separate from oil and form a gas cap above the oil if reservoir pressure drops to or falls below the bubble point pressure of the oil. As gas comes out of solution, the viscosity and mobility of the oil increases. In a gas cap drive reservoir, production occurs mainly through the expansion of the gas cap as it moves towards the wellbore, differing from a solution gas drive where production is driven by gas coming out of solution. The oil production rate and gas-oil ratio of a gas cap drive reservoir vary from those of a solution gas drive.

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    Gas-Cap Expansion Drive / Gas Cap Drive

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    Imran Shahzad Khan
    Gas can separate from oil and form a gas cap above the oil if reservoir pressure drops to or falls below the bubble point pressure of the oil. As gas comes out of solution, the viscosity and mobility of the oil increases. In a gas cap drive reservoir, production occurs mainly through the expansion of the gas cap as it moves towards the wellbore, differing from a solution gas drive where production is driven by gas coming out of solution. The oil production rate and gas-oil ratio of a gas cap drive reservoir vary from those of a solution gas drive.

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    Gas-Cap Expansion Drive / Gas Cap Drive

    Frequently, if reservoir pressure is initially equal to or at some later


    stage falls to the
    bubble point pressure for the oil, the gas released from solution
    may migrate upwards to form a gas cap on top of the oil. As
    previously discussed, the loss of the gas from being in solution
    within the oil, will lead to the oil having a higher viscosity and lower
    mobility. With the solution gas drive mechanism, the production of
    fluids occurred primarily with gas expansion as it moved towards
    the wellbore. The performance of a gas cap drive reservoir in terms
    of the oil production rate and GOR will vary from that of a
    solution gas drive as shown in Figure below.

    Performance of a Gas Cap Drive Mechanism

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