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Optimizing Sour Gas Qualification Testing – Modeling the Effects of Temperature and Total Pressure on H2S Fugacity, Activity, and Solubility Coefficients

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Traditionally, sour severity of high-pressure, high temperature (HPHT) oil and gas production wells were assessed by H2S partial pressure (PH2S): The mole fraction of H2S in the gas (yH2S) multiplied by the total pressure (PT). While PH2S is appropriate for characterizing the sour severity of wellbores operating at low total pressures (e.g., PT < 35 MPa) and/or for highly sour systems (e.g., yH2S > 1 mol%), PH2S usually over-predicts the actual sour severity of HPHT systems, leading to sub-optimal material selection options. 

Product Number: 51323-18762-SG
Author: Brent W.A. Sherar, Diana Miller, Hui Li
Publication Date: 2023
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Traditionally, sour severity of high-pressure, high temperature (HPHT) oil and gas production wells were assessed by H2S partial pressure (PH2S): The mole fraction of H2S in the gas (yH2S) multiplied by the total pressure (PT). However, PH2S usually over-predicts the actual sour severity of HPHT systems, leading to sub-optimal material selection choices. To reflect recent advances in thermodynamic modeling and to avoid over conservatism, after careful deliberation, ANSI/NACE MR0175-2021/ISO 15156-2:2022 recently expanded the number of sour severity metrics to four: PH2S, fugacity (fH2S), chemical activity (aH2S) and dissolved concentration (CH2S) of the aqueous phase. The new metrics are often computationally derived and account for thermodynamic non-idealities, which are significant at HPHT conditions. Regardless of preferred metric, quantifying the sensitivity of each metric to a wide range of temperatures and total pressures is critical when conducting H2S service assessments.

Traditionally, sour severity of high-pressure, high temperature (HPHT) oil and gas production wells were assessed by H2S partial pressure (PH2S): The mole fraction of H2S in the gas (yH2S) multiplied by the total pressure (PT). However, PH2S usually over-predicts the actual sour severity of HPHT systems, leading to sub-optimal material selection choices. To reflect recent advances in thermodynamic modeling and to avoid over conservatism, after careful deliberation, ANSI/NACE MR0175-2021/ISO 15156-2:2022 recently expanded the number of sour severity metrics to four: PH2S, fugacity (fH2S), chemical activity (aH2S) and dissolved concentration (CH2S) of the aqueous phase. The new metrics are often computationally derived and account for thermodynamic non-idealities, which are significant at HPHT conditions. Regardless of preferred metric, quantifying the sensitivity of each metric to a wide range of temperatures and total pressures is critical when conducting H2S service assessments.

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