PR-06Intermedia
Medición Virtual de Flujo
Estimates each well’s oil, water and gas rate continuously from pressure and temperature, between the physical tests.
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PR-03FronteraOla 3IADominio
Optimización de Asignación de Gas Lift
En una frase
Decides how to split a limited supply of lift gas across the wells that want it, to maximise oil rather than gas injected.
El problema
Lift gas is allocated by habit and by whoever calls the control room. Wells past their optimum injection point consume gas that would produce more oil in a neighbouring well, and the loss is invisible because nobody computes the alternative.
Cómo funciona
Each well’s lift performance curve is estimated from test data and nodal analysis, then a constrained optimiser allocates the available compressor capacity across the network against total oil, respecting separator, compression and water-handling limits. Setpoints are advisory to the control room unless the operator opts into supervised closed loop.
Datos necesarios
- Well tests across a range of injection rates, ideally a recent lift-optimisation survey
- Injection rate and pressure per well
- Compressor capacity and network pressure constraints
- Separator and water-handling limits
Qué obtiene
- Recommended injection rate per well with the incremental oil for each
- Network-wide gain versus current allocation
- Wells flagged for a lift performance survey because their curve is stale
Qué no puede hacer
Lift performance curves go stale as reservoir pressure and water cut change, and in most fields the test frequency is too low to keep them current. Without a survey campaign at the start, the optimiser is working from curves that may be two years old, and the honest expected gain is much smaller than the theoretical one.
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