Autonomous Control of Well Downtime to Optimize Production and Cycling in Sucker Rod Pump Artificially Lifted Wells Ian Nickell 2022 ALRDC Artificial Lift Workshop Houston, Texas February 28th – March 3 Abstract For decades sucker rod pump artificially lifted wells have used devices called pump off controllers (POC) to match the pumping unit’s runtime to […]
A New Approach to Estimate Gas-Lift Valve Performance and Valve Troubleshooting Felipe Maciel – LSU Marcelo Fernandes – LSU Paulo Waltrich – LSU 2022 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Houston, Texas June 20-23 This presentation will describe the details of a new approach to model Gas-Lift Valves (GLV) and how to use this approach for valve […]
Tenth Year Review of Tulsa University Artificial Lift (TUHWALP) Consortium Cem Sarica – Tulsa 2022 Artificial Lift Workshop Houston, Texas February 28 – March 3 The Tulsa University Horizontal Well Artificial Lift Projects (TUHWALP), established with the leadership of ALRDC in 2012, addresses the challenges of horizontal wells and develops new methods for advancing artificial […]
Maximizing Uplift in Gas-lifted Oil Production Systems Emmanuel Ogbe – ExxonMobil Jose Santiago Rodriguez – ExxonMobil Francisco Trespalacios – ExxonMobil Neal Adair – ExxonMobil Keith Zorn – ExxonMobil 2022 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Houston, Texas June 23 Optimizing gas lift injection rate is essential to maximizing the total oil produced in a production network system. […]
Pressure Controlled Gas Lift for Mitigating Multi-Porting Justin LaPointe – XTO Energy 2022 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Houston, Texas June 20-23 Traditionally, in gas lift systems, we control the gas injection rate at surface and the casing pressure determines the depth of injection. When a well is hydrodynamic slugging or terrain slugging, the change in […]
Horizontal Well liquid Movement Observations and Early Adoption of Artificial Lift Methods Clint Mason – Kaizen Well Solutions Ltd. 2022 ALRDC Artificial Lift Workshop Houston, Texas February 28th – March 3 The objective is to describe field observations on fluid movement in a Hz. Well Review some rule of thumbs for well completion that have […]
Field Trial Data Demonstrates Benefits of Metallic Coating that Actively Protects Rod Strings against Corrosion in Challenging Well Environments Alex Peri – ChampionX The objective of this paper is to share insights on mitigating sucker rod corrosion damage in vertical, horizontal and deviated wells with aggressive corrosive conditions such as H2S and CO2, particularly those […]
Gas Assisted Liquid Lift using Oscillating Pressure (GALLOP) Scott Wilson – Ryder Scott David Green – Well Master Corporation Dan Nelson – Well Master Corporation 2022 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Houston, Texas June 20-23 The advent of multi-frac’ed horizontal wells enabled extremely low permeability rock to produce at exceptional high early rates. The downside of […]
Autonomous chemical optimization and remote monitoring: A Case Study Jeff Clack – ConocoPhillips Dylan Bucanek – ChampionX Artificial Lift 2022 ALRDC Artificial Lift Workshop Houston, Texas February 28th– March 3rd With new digital technology over the decade, our industry has seen many benefits of remote monitoring and automation in drilling, completion, and production sectors, but […]
Testing Gas Lift Equipment for Offshore Applications Proves Synergistic to Land-Based Applications Steve Long – Weatherford 2022 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Houston Texas June 20-23 In many industries, technology improvements in high end devices eventually improves performance in lower cost like devices. The same is true in that gas lift equipment development for deepwater gas […]