{"id":157154,"date":"2023-09-05T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=157154"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T05:07:45","slug":"in-an-oil-well-the-pressure-at-the-gas-oil-contact-goc-at-a-depth-of-2000-m-is-205-bar-gauge-as-shown-in-the-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/in-an-oil-well-the-pressure-at-the-gas-oil-contact-goc-at-a-depth-of-2000-m-is-205-bar-gauge-as-shown-in-the-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"In an oil well, the pressure at the gas oil contact (GOC) at a depth of 2000 m is 205 bar (gauge), as shown in the figure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. In an oil well, the pressure at the gas oil contact (GOC) at a depth of 2000 m is 205 bar (gauge), as shown in the figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-747.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157155\" style=\"width:443px;height:228px\" width=\"443\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-747.png 537w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-747-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The static oil pressure gradient is 0.08 bar\/m in the pay zone. If a constant hydrostatic pressure gradient of 0.1 bar\/m prevails throughout the subsurface, then the thickness of the oil column is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m (round off to 1 decimal place).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"42\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157156\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0.1 x (2000 + h<sub>o<\/sub>) = 205 + (0.08 x h<sub>o<\/sub>)<br>200 + 0.1 h<sub>o<\/sub> = 205 + 0.08h<sub>o<\/sub><br>0.02h<sub>o<\/sub> = 5<br>h<sub>o<\/sub> = 250 m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. In an oil well, the pressure at the gas oil contact (GOC) at a depth of 2000 m is 205 bar (gauge), as shown in the figure. The static oil pressure gradient is 0.08 bar\/m in the pay zone. If a constant hydrostatic pressure gradient of 0.1 bar\/m prevails throughout the subsurface, then the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":157157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-157154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157158,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157154\/revisions\/157158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}