With The Cullender and Smith Method
With The Cullender and Smith Method
Smith Method
This Excel spreadsheet employs the Cullender and Smith method to calculate Bottom Hole Pressure
on a shallow, dry gas well. The bottom hole pressure is simply the pressure at the bottom of an oil-
well shaft
Many reservoir engineering calculations require the static bottom hole pressure. However, this can
be difficult to measure experimentally. A number of researchers have developed other techniques
to calculate bottom hole pressure from measurements at the wellhead.
The Cullender and Smith (1956) method is generally considered accurate and models the variation
of compressibility Z with temperature T and pressure P
It needs to be numerically integrated. In the attached spreadsheet, we have simply divided the
entire length into four sections and integrated via a simple trapezoidal method.
Download Excel Spreadsheet to Calcualte Bottom Hole Pressure with the Cullender Smith Method