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 […]
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 […]
Gas Lift – Continuing Problems and Possible Solutions John Martinez – Production Associates 2022 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Houston, Texas June 20-23 Gas lift process requires unloading kill fluid and closing valves in sequence from top to bottom, not always successfully accomplished. Problems attaining effective unloading and lift is a continuing problem today and possible […]
DLC Application to Reduce Scale Deposition and Improve SRP Run Life Michael Romer – ExxonMobil Matt Blandford – Imperial Oil Darren Hannas – Imperial Oil Marvin Saldanha – ExxonMobil Lokesh Sharma – ExxonMobil R Surya Narayan – ExxonMobil Gerard Walsh – Q2 Artificial Lift Services Greg Johnson – Q2 Artificial Lift Services Michael Ruppert – […]
Comparison of Corrosion/Wear Resistant Barrel Coatings and Their Failure Behavior Under Acidic Conditions Pinar Karpuz-Pickell – Don Nan Levins Thompson – Don Nan 2021 International Sucker Rod Pumping Virtual Workshop Virtual February 8-12, 20
Gas Lift Valve Opening Behavior Observations during Dynamic Performance Testing per API 19G2, Annex G Russell Burkey – Southwest Research Institute 2021 ALRDC Gas Lift Workshop Virtual June 7th-11th
Gas Lift Valve Open and Closing Behavior Observations Seen While Conducting Dynamic Performance Testing In Accordance With API 19G2 Annex H Matthew Gautreau Tommy Hunt Rodney Bertrand 2024 Gas Lift Workshop Stavanger, Norway June 3-6, 2024 Understanding gas lift valve throughput and opening and closing behavior is essential for completion design and optimizing gas lift […]