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    This document discusses gas lift design for increasing production from wells that cannot flow naturally. It covers the need for gas lift, design considerations, manual calculations, and PIPESIM software design. Key steps in the manual design process include determining injection rates using pressure-volume relationships and calculating valve placement depths along the wellbore gradient. PIPESIM software allows optimizing the gas injection rate. A case study compares results from manual calculations and PIPESIM, finding that PIPESIM gives less overestimated production rates than manual methods.

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    This document discusses gas lift design for increasing production from wells that cannot flow naturally. It covers the need for gas lift, design considerations, manual calculations, and PIPESIM software design. Key steps in the manual design process include determining injection rates using pressure-volume relationships and calculating valve placement depths along the wellbore gradient. PIPESIM software allows optimizing the gas injection rate. A case study compares results from manual calculations and PIPESIM, finding that PIPESIM gives less overestimated production rates than manual methods.

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    This document discusses gas lift design for increasing production from wells that cannot flow naturally. It covers the need for gas lift, design considerations, manual calculations, and PIPESIM software design. Key steps in the manual design process include determining injection rates using pressure-volume relationships and calculating valve placement depths along the wellbore gradient. PIPESIM software allows optimizing the gas injection rate. A case study compares results from manual calculations and PIPESIM, finding that PIPESIM gives less overestimated production rates than manual methods.

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    Gas Lift Design: Muhammad Akhtar UET Lahore

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    This document discusses gas lift design for increasing production from wells that cannot flow naturally. It covers the need for gas lift, design considerations, manual calculations, and PIPESIM software design. Key steps in the manual design process include determining injection rates using pressure-volume relationships and calculating valve placement depths along the wellbore gradient. PIPESIM software allows optimizing the gas injection rate. A case study compares results from manual calculations and PIPESIM, finding that PIPESIM gives less overestimated production rates than manual methods.

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    GAS LIFT DESIGN

    Muhammad Akhtar UET Lahore

    CONTENTS
    Introduction Need of Gas Lift Design Considerations Manual Design PIPESIM Design Results Comparison Synopsis

    Gas Lift

    Continued
    Gas is injected continuously or intermittently at selected locations, resulting in the lifting(decreasing density) of the produced fluids to the surface The lowering of the bottom hole pressure is accomplished to increase the drawdown between reservoir and wellbore

    When We need Gas Lift?


    Producing wells that cant flow naturally Initial unloading of a well that will flow on its own later Increasing the production rate of a flowing well

    Continued
    Accommodating deviated and horizontal well bores Unloading a well affected by adjacent well drilling and fracturing Removing solids by back flowing Producing wells with sand or scale problems

    Data Required

    2. Production Data: a.- Wellhead tubing & casing pressure b.- Present production rate c.- Static & dynamic fluid level d.- GOR & W/C e.- Datum point f.- BHT g.- Desired production rate

    3. Well Fluid Properties: a.- Water specific gravity b.- Oil API or specific gravity c.- Gas specific gravity d.- Bubble-point pressure e.- Oil viscosity f.- PVT data

    4. Possible Problems: a. Sand b.- Deposition c.- Corrosion d.- Paraffin e.- Emulsion f.- Gas g.- Abnormal temperature

    10

    Design Considerations

    Gas injection depth, pressure and GLR for desired production Principles of unloading operations Well Gradients Gas lift valve spacing principles Types of gas lift valves Mechanics of gas lift valve operation Factors that affect efficiency (injected gas)

    Limitations
    Not feasible if no source of gas present. High initial capital purchase cost. Maintenance intensive. Difficult to operate

    GAS LIFT VALVES


    The heart of any gas lift system is the gas lift valve. Gas lift valves are basically downhole pressure regulators Practically all gas lift valves use the effect of pressure acting on the area of a valve element (bellows, stem tip, etc.
    Tubing

    pressure operated valves (r-25p, r25p1, etc.) Casing pressure operated valves (r-20, altec, etc.)

    GAS LIFT VALVES

    GAS FLOW FROM CASING

    REVERSE FLOW VALVE

    GAS FLOW FROM CASING

    GAS FLOW INTO THE TUBING

    GAS FLOW INTO THE TUBING

    CASING PRESSURE OPERATED

    TUBING PRESSURE OPERATED

    GAS LIFT VALVE (IPO)

    GAS LIFT VALVE (PPO)

    UNLOADING PROCEDURE

    Obtain the design details of the gas lift string. The kick-off pressure, estimated gas injection rate during unloading Bleed the tubing pressure to the oil manifold. This should be done very slowly. Start injecting +/- 500 mscfd gas. Slowly control the lift gas rate so that it takes 10-12 minutes for 50 psi buildup in the casing pressure.

    CONTINUED.
    Increase the gas injection rate slowly to allow the casing pressure to buildup 100 psi in every 10 minutes till the gas is passing through the orifice. Once the well has cleaned up and unloaded to the orifice, adjust the gas injection rate as per the recommendation.

    Case Study
    DATA:

    Well depth=Gas injec depth= 13250 ft Tubing id= 4.89 inch Water Cut= 60% Tsc= 60 F API= 35.7 degree Formation GLR = 500 scf/STB psep= 190 psig P.G= 0.465 psi/ft Test Data: pr=SIBHP= 3100 psig Pb = 3600 psig P.I=6.1 STB/D-psi T= 200 F pinj= 1800 psia

    Manual Design

    P.I method was used for IPR plotting Hagedorn Brown Correlation was used to generate pressure traverse curve using tubing data

    Then the qL and pwf values were plotted on same graph of IPR The point with maximum value of qL is taken as operating flow rate Optimization of Gas Injection Rate

    GAS LIFT OPTIMIZATION


    4500

    4000

    3500

    3000

    IPR, WCUT=60%
    pwf (psig) 2500 GLRinj= 0 mmscfd GLRinj= 0.4 mmscfd 2000 GLRinj= 0.8 mmscfd GLRinj= 1.2 mmscfd GLRinj= 1.4 mmscfd 1500 GLRinj= 1.6 mmscfd GLRinj= 1.8 mmscfd GLRinj=2.0 mmscfd 1000 GLRinj= 2.2 mmscfd

    500

    0 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 qL (STB/D) 12000 14000 16000 18000 20000

    Operating Flow Rates


    GLRTotal(scf/STB) 500 900 1300 1700 1900 2100

    qL (STB/D) 7000 8350 8700 8800 8850 8850

    Optimization of Gas Injection Rate


    qinj Optimization
    10000 9000

    8000
    7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 0 5 10 15 20 25

    qL (STB/D)

    qinj (MMSCF/D)

    Valve Setting Depth Calculations


    Following are the steps used for drawing gradient lines and calculating valce setting depths:

    VALVE SETTING DEPTH CALCULATIONS


    P, psig 0 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500

    2000

    Mandrel#1 @ 3600 ft
    4000

    Depth TVD(ft)

    6000

    Mandrel#2 @6400 ft

    8000

    Mandrel#3 @8400ft Mandrel#4 @9800 ft


    10000

    Mandrel#5 @10700 ft Mandrel#6 @11350 ft Mandrel#7 @11800 ft


    12000

    DRAWDOWN CREATED BY GAS INJECTION

    DEPTH OF WELL
    14000

    FBHP

    SIBHP

    Valve Setting Depth


    VALVE DEPTH , ft

    1. Unloading Valve
    2. Unloading Valve 3. Unloading Valve 4. Unloading Valve 5. Unloading Valve 6. Unloading Valve 7. Operating valve

    3600 6400 8400 9800 10700

    11350
    11800

    PIPESIM DESIGN

    OPTIMIZATION OF GAS INJECTION RATE

    GAS LIFT OPTIMIZATION

    Operating Flow rates


    qinj MMSCF/D qL STB/D

    1
    2 3 4 5 6 7

    4400
    5700 6500 7000 7400 7700 7800

    Results Analysis
    qL STB/D MANUAL DESIGN qinj MMSCF/D RECOVERY

    7000
    8700 PIPESIM DESIGN 4000 7800

    0
    6.9

    NATURAL
    GAS LIFT

    0 6.9

    NATURAL GAS LIFT

    Conclusions
    Manual Calculations give us overestimated results PIPESIM is a very helpful tool in determining the efficiency of artificial lift methods Gas Lift is remarkably beneficial in increasing productivity

    ANY QUESTION?

    THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT

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