Evaluation of Continuous Gas Lift Systems in an Oil Well
Hisham Khaled Ben Mahmud,Vincent Goenawan
Citation :Hisham Khaled Ben Mahmud,Vincent Goenawan, Evaluation of Continuous Gas Lift Systems in an Oil Well International Journal of Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering 2017,3(3) : 66-75
Continuous gas lift is a technology used by injecting a highly compressed gas to decrease the density of fluid column hence provide an additional lifting energy to increase the production performance of an oil well. The continuous gas lift system is evaluated based on the capabilities to overcome the well and reservoir condition. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to distinguish the capabilities of continuous gas lift system in different type of well characteristics. An oil well C-06 is used as the case study well where the simulation is evaluated through PROSPER software. A model is developed to perform history matching with field production data to verify the results and to perform a sensitivity analysis on the liquid production. The result shows that the continuous gas lift application increases the liquid production rate up to 1,864.6 STB/d from a non-producing oil well.