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    Gas Well Deliquification Workshop

    Sheraton Hotel, Denver, Colorado


    February 20 – 22, 2017

    Gas Well Deliquification Breakout Session

    Compressors and Facilities – Ask the


    “Experts”

    Larry Harms
    Breakout Session Details

    Number of Attendees
    – Operating Companies - 11
    – Service/Supply Companies – 5

    Duration of Session – 1.25 hrs.

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 2


    WHC
    • Candidates
    – Economics favor average or gathering pressure based
    on average well, WHC on best wells
    • Trials
    – If you pick the right candidates, trials not needed and
    may cause giving up on best wells because of time
    limits
    • Use to delay Artificial Lift
    – Look at well life and determine if other artificial lift
    needed and best order for economics

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 3


    WHC
    • Reduce Decline
    – Usually this is because well has been produced below critical rate
    causing faster decline
    – This has been seen regularly
    • Liquids/Failures
    – Wells that are loaded up must produce liquid slugs to unload, live
    with them or pay for extra temp. equipment
    – If you let well load up again by not shutting in when compressor
    goes down/well falls below critical, liquid slugs will continue
    – Problematic with horizontals
    – Main failures are not unloading initially, WHC not big
    enough/poorly designed for application, poor candidate selection

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 4


    WHC
    • Plunger Lift
    – Having controls to help compressor deal with varying rates very
    helpful – Some vendors have automated for their units
    – See Listiak-Phillips SWPSC 1996 presentation
    – Conventional plunger lift may not be optimum for best wells
    – Good backup for when compressor goes down

    • Will it help ESP?


    – With all types of pumps, lowering casing pressure will cause
    higher fluid level (with higher % gas)
    – Should be able to pump more liquid and increase production

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 5


    WHC

    • Poor Boy Gas Lift


    – Excess WHC capacity provides a good opportunity to put gas down
    the annulus
    – Works as long as it keeps well above critical rate – measure injection
    gas/produced gas/casing pressure to ensure this happens
    – Since not designed for this application may need equip. mods. and
    different compressor or different suction pressure
    – Suction pressure probably should be minimum before starting
    • Continuous Gas Circulation
    – Difference is that compressor/equipment designed to ensure that
    well stays above critical throughout its life
    – See J. Hacksma past presentations and B. Elmer 2017 presentation

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 6


    Facilities Modelling for Emissions
    Regulatory Requirement

    • No gas venting allowed so have to model to


    prove no tank emissions when all wells dump
    simultaneously (Pad Wells, Colorado)
    – Hysis modelling needs to be adjusted with actual field
    data
    – Consider limiting dump rates
    – Consider starting with a few wells/Smaller VRU units
    with expansion via VRU header
    – Consider Electric Driven Rotary Vane Compressors
    • Cheap HC Leak detection
    – Need help with this

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 7


    What causes you the most loss of
    production on Compression/Facilities?

    • Compressors going down


    – See Harms 2017 GWDW Presentations

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 8


    Copyright
    Rights to this presentation are owned by the company(ies) and/or
    author(s) listed on the title page. By submitting this presentation to
    the Gas Well Deliquification Workshop, they grant to the Workshop,
    the Artificial Lift Research and Development Council (ALRDC), and
    the Southwestern Petroleum Short Course (SWPSC), rights to:
    – Display the presentation at the Workshop.
    – Place it on the www.alrdc.com web site, with access to the site to be
    as directed by the Workshop Steering Committee.
    – Place it on a CD for distribution and/or sale as directed by the
    Workshop Steering Committee.
    Other uses of this presentation are prohibited without the expressed
    written permission of the company(ies) and/or author(s) who own it
    and the Workshop Steering Committee.

    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 9


    Disclaimer
    The following disclaimer shall be included as the last page of a Technical Presentation or
    Continuing Education Course. A similar disclaimer is included on the front page of the Gas Well
    Deliquification Web Site.
    The Artificial Lift Research and Development Council and its officers and trustees, and the Gas
    Well Deliquification Workshop Steering Committee members, and their supporting organizations
    and companies (here-in-after referred to as the Sponsoring Organizations), and the author(s) of
    this Technical Presentation or Continuing Education Training Course and their company(ies),
    provide this presentation and/or training material at the Gas Well Deliquification Workshop "as is"
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    Feb. 22, 2017 2017 Gas Well Workshop 10

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