Importance of calculation of natural gas in the international petroleum and gas sector

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Gürkan İşcan’s presentation on natural gas at  IPETGAS 2023 -
21st  International Petroleum and Natural Gas Congress and Exhibition of TurkeyAssoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Gürkan İşcan, faculty member in the Department of Petroleum and  Natural Gas Engineering, presented his study on calculation of natural gas in the international petroleum and gas sector IPETGAS 2023 - 21st  International Petroleum and Natural Gas Congress and Exhibition of Turkey. 

İşcan’s presentation  at the IPETGAS 2023 - 21st  International Petroleum and Natural Gas Congress and Exhibition of Turkey was on “Calculation of Natural Gas Viscosity of a Gas Reservoir using Correlations and Comparison with Manual Readings through Well Known Charts.”  The international congress has been bringing together universities with investors and service companies of the petroleum industry. 

İşcan, who has been working on natural gas, one of the most important energy issues of our day and age noted that he calculated the viscosity, i.e., flow resistance of natural gas in underground conditions with mathematical methods denoted in literature and prepared an automated spreadsheet that provides practical use and compared the results obtained with the existing classical graphical methods. 

Stating that the results of this study will contribute to the calculation of natural gas flow rates, İşcan said, “Especially in underground conditions where pressure and temperature differ, classical graphic reading methods are not practical in terms of reading accuracy because they require a large number of readings. Therefore, a practical calculation approach that can be easily implemented is important.”

İşcan reminded that natural gas is very sensitive to pressure and temperature, and that studies in this field are determined through Pressure-Volume-Temperature experiments in a rather arduous and long-term laboratory environment.

İşcan warned that natural gas viscosity is one of these above mentioned properties,  and "Therefore, as a practical and current petroleum engineering practice, fast and accurate calculation of gas flow resistance in the quality control of test reports is an issue that should be taken into consideration scientifically as well as from the stand point of economics."