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With The Cullender and Smith Method

This document describes a method for calculating bottom hole pressure in a shallow, dry gas well using the Cullender and Smith equation. The Cullender and Smith method models how compressibility varies with temperature and pressure and can be used to calculate bottom hole pressure numerically when direct measurement is difficult. An Excel spreadsheet implements the Cullender and Smith method using trapezoidal integration to divide the wellbore into sections.

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With The Cullender and Smith Method

This document describes a method for calculating bottom hole pressure in a shallow, dry gas well using the Cullender and Smith equation. The Cullender and Smith method models how compressibility varies with temperature and pressure and can be used to calculate bottom hole pressure numerically when direct measurement is difficult. An Excel spreadsheet implements the Cullender and Smith method using trapezoidal integration to divide the wellbore into sections.

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Calculate Bottom Hole Pressure with the Cullender and

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

This is the Cullender and Smith equation

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

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