Accurate description of thermodynamic properties of natural gas systems is of great significance in the oil and gas industry. For this application, non-cubic equations of state (EoSs) are advantageous due to their better density and compressibility description. Among the non-cubic models, GERG-2008 is a new wide-range EoS for natural gases and other mixtures of 21 natural gas components. It is considered as a standard reference equation suitable for natural gas applications where highly accurate thermodynamic properties are required. Soave's modification of Benedict-Webb-Rubin (Soave-BWR) EoS is another model that despite its empirical nature, provides accurate density description even around the critical point. It is much simpler than GERG-2008 and easier to handle and generalize to reservoir oil fluids. This study presents a comprehensive comparison between GERG-2008 and other cubic (SRK and PR) and non cubic EoSs (Soave-BWR and PC-SAFT) with a focus on Soave-BWR in description of pure components density and compressibility in a wide temperature and pressure range, calculation of binary Vapor Liquid-Equilibria (VLE) and density, prediction of multicomponent phase envelopes and gas compressibility factor. In addition, the performance of GERG-2008 is compared with that of cubic and non-cubic models in calculation of thermal properties such as heat capacity and Joule-Thomson coefficient for pure components and multicomponent mixtures over a wide pressure and temperature range. The results are compared with available experimental data in the literature and special emphasis has been given to the reverse Joule-Thomson effects at high pressure high temperature (HPHT) conditions. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.