Artificial Lift Systems

Designed for:

Completion Engineers, Production Technologists, Production Engineers, Subsurface Team Leaders with 1-10 years experience of basic completion design or production operations or field operation involved in the design, selection or operation of artificial lift systems

This course describes the procedure to establish the optimal artificial lift solution for any field. The reservoir conditions generating the need for artificial lift are described, and each individual artificial lift system is reviewed and compared, in terms of theory of operation, and advantages and disadvantages. Design methodology is demonstrated and skill developed by means of design exercises and using the artificial lift design functionality in Prosper. Troubleshooting artificial lift operations is covered by means of reviewing operational data in exercise format.

Course Content & Outline:

Introduction

 Reservoir Inflow Performance

 Completion Outflow (Tubing) Performance

 Artificial Lift overview

Gas Lift

 Gas lift completions

 Valve types and operation

 Advantages and Disadvantages of Gaslift

 Graphical gas lift design exercise

 Prosper (software) gas lift design exercise

 Gas lift optimization

 Gas lift troubleshooting

ESP

 ESP completions

 ESP operation

 Advantages and Disadvantages of ESPs

 Graphical (manual)ESP design exercise

 Prosper (software) ESP design exercise

 ESP troubleshooting

Hydraulic Pumps

 Hydraulic Pump Components

 Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydraulic Pumps

 Spreadsheet Jet Pump Design

 Prosper Jet Pump design

 Prosper Hydraulic Submersible Pump design

Beam Pumps

 Beam Pump Components

 Advantages and Disadvantages of Beam Pumps

 Prosper Beam Pump Design

Closeout

 Artificial Lift Comparison

Course Method:

Lectures 2.5 days

0.5 of each day covers theory

Demonstration

0.1 of each day is demonstration

Exercises 1 day

0.2 of each day covers exercises

Manual well designs are made using graphical methods and hand calculations

Workshop 1 day

0.2 of each day using software

Designs using software; 1 (laptop) computer is required to be shared between two persons working together for these sessions

Case Study

The designs are all case studies Actual well data is used to support the cases

Course Duration:

Duration is 5 days, depending on number of artificial lift systems to be covered

Course Date:

Monday October 3th to Friday October 7th 2016

Course Tutor

Roger McIlroy BSc, MEng, CEng, MEI

Main Series tutoring: Wells and Reservoir

Industry experience: over 40 years, subsurface leadership production technology and reservoir engineering

Career background: Maersk, BP, Shell and AGR

Personal: Chartered Petroleum Engineer, Member of Energy Institute, Member SPE

Course Schedule:

Morning session Afternoon Session

Day 10:00-12:45 1:45- 5:00

(2h45min) (3h15min)

Lecture 1 Lecture 1 (continued)

Inflow Theory Outflow Theory Day1 Inflow exercises Outflow and Inflow/Outflow exercises

Artificial Lift Overview

Lecture 2 ・Prosper (software) gas lift design exercise

Gaslift ・Gas lift optimization Day2 Gas lift completions ・Gas lift troubleshooting

・Valve types and operation

・Graphical gas lift design exercise

Lecture 3 ・Prosper (software) ESP design exercise

ESP ・ESP troubleshooting Day3 ・ESP completions

・ESP components and operation

・Graphical (manual) ESP design exercise

Lecture 4 Prosper Jet Pump design

Day4 Hydraulic Pumps ・Prosper Hydraulic Submersible Pump

・Hydraulic Pump Components design

Lecture 5 Closeout

Beam Pumps Artificial Lift Comparison Day5 ・Beam Pump Components Course Review

・Prosper Beam Pump Design Certificates