PROPERTIES OF OILFIELD BRINES - Petroleum Reservoir Fluid Property Correlations - page 180

6%

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Salinity, weight % NaCl

Kestin et al. (1978)
Phillips et al. (1978)

Meehan (1980)
Phillips et al. (1980) ‡

Kestin-Shankland (1984a)
Mao-Duan (2009) ‡

Fig. 4-24. Average relative error and average absolute relative error in brine viscosity as functions
of salinity for various correlations, based on the brine viscosity database in table 4-12