Oil FVF

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Why Oil Formation volume factor is greater or equal to 1? why not less
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you know effect of pressure certainly.
and reservoir temperature always greater than surface,so oil volume in reservoir is greater even if pressure in reservoir equals surface.
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Because in surface evolved gas results shrinkage... to be less than 1 it should dissolve more gas in standard conditions than reservoir conditions which is physically not possible as Mohammed explained.
hope that answers.
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THANKyou all
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