The studied productive formation of gas condensate field is at the stage of declining production. The inflow of bottom water due to the rise of the GWC and the design features of horizontal wells (large tubing and liner diameters) create the prerequisites for the development of a liquid loading of wells. This necessitate the optimization of the existing method of liquid unloading by dosing surfactants into the annulus.
In order to increase the efficiency of well treatment with a foaming agent, the use of a surfactant injection system through a capillary string suspended inside a tubing is considered. The use of this system allows to increase the speed and depth of surfactant delivery, use the potential of the well by simultaneous work in tubing and annulus during significant watering period (water flow rate: 50 and more m3 / day), reduce reagent losses associated with retention on the casing walls, and reduce the required consumption of surfactant.
The capillary string for the pumping surfactant is applicated to ensuring the stable operation of gas condensate wells during liquid loading. But today there are not ready-made applied solutions for correctly accounting surfactant action in unsteady flows conditions in the well.
The paper presents the substantiation and analysis of the capillary string introduction into the well for the pumping surfactant using specialized software. In the course of work, the main analysis tool is the dynamic modeling of multiphase flows in the conditions of steady and unsteady processes in wells. This approach use is aimed at determining the optimal depth and diameter of capillary, the required consumption and concentration of surfactant, the rate of its delivery to the bottomhole, and the liquid removal efficiency from the horizontal wellbore.
Nowadays many oil and gas companies demonstrate a great interest to technology of liquefying of natural gas (LNG). LNG technology is especially topical for gas and gascondensate fields of Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas located so remote from network of transfer pipelines.
The exploitation of the field, which provides the output to LNG plant, has its peculiarities in compare with traditional approaches. Development of new approaches to the LNG plant start-up optimization is among the foreground tasks today. Failure prediction and monitoring of operation on the field, providing the production to LNG plant, are inconceivable without dynamic multiphase flow simulator.
Main purpose of this work is failure prediction and optimization of South Tambey field operation in the period of start-up and ramp up, taking into consideration posible uncertaincies and risk estimation. In this article authors present the results of predictive computation of the field operation while start-up, and describe their optimization sugestions.
The concept of integrated modeling of the entire system "formation-well-pipeline system-inlet facilities" introduced in this paper could be used for the purpose of subsequent monitoring of operation regime.
Frequently, production from gas and gas condensate wells is negatively impacted by the wellbore accumulation of liquid – a mixture of water and condensate. As reservoir pressure and tubing gas velocity decline and produced water cut increases, heavier liquids can no longer be effectively removed from the wellbore, resulting in the liquid column build-up at the bottomhole. This creates additional backpressure on the producing formation and leads to gradual production decline, until the well completely stops producing – the condition widely known as "liquid loading". Use of smaller size tubing (velocity string) is often the simplest and most straightforward solution, but depending on reservoir properties (water cut, productivity and pressure) and well completion (vertical, slanted or horizontal) this approach may not be efficient. This paper describes the technical approach to resume continuous production from liquid-loading gas condensate wells at North Urengoy field. It is shown that Electric Submersible Pumps (ESPs) can be successfully applied to unload horizontal wells producing large amounts of water. In this application, water and condensate is lifted by the pump through the tubing string, while gas and condensate mixture is simultaneously produced through the annular space between the tubing and the casing. Reviewed in detail are the technical challenges of modeling the well and pump performance using dynamic multiphase flow simulators, and the ESP design for the pilot application in deep, horizontal gas condensate well in Russia.
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