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Advanced Gas Lift - Design & Troubleshooting Training
Current Course Schedule:
Objective:
Stated quite simply, the objective of this course is to provide the most advanced and comprehensive gas-lift design and diagnostics training package available to the industry. The course provides a comprehensive review of common gas-lift techniques, concentrates on the entire system effect of gas-lift performance and diagnostics particularly the downhole aspects. It also emphasizes emerging technology in the form of actual gas-lift valve performance and dynamic gas-lift simulation, which advance the practice of gas lift from a black art to a true engineering discipline. The course is targeted toward engineering staff involved in the design, performance, and monitoring of gas-lift installations. While previous experience and/or knowledge of gas lift are prerequisites, students are expected to be familiar with the basic principles as well as applications of gas lift. The course will also prove valuable to experienced gas-lift engineers who would benefit from exposure to some of the newer methods currently being developed and tested by the industry.
Course Description:
This course presents an advanced interactive approach on the design and application of gas lift to professional s involved in oil and gas production. The course demonstrates the advantages and limitations of specific gas-lift equipment and will improve design skills using gas-lift software for continuous (single and dual completions), intermittent lift, and Xtra-Lift applications. The student will utilize system evaluation, design, installation, operation, troubleshooting procedures, gas-lift allocation/optimization procedures and real time surveillance and optimization workflows.
Target audience
The course is targeted toward engineering staff involved in the design, performance, and monitoring of gas-lift installations.
Prerequisites
At least 6 months - 1 year of work experience in related field, previously attended Basic Gas Lift and Gas-Lift Applications courses.
Course Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview the Application and Basic Operating Principles
- Review the Types of Gas-Lift Equipment
- Gas-Lift Well Evaluation Procedure
- Unloading a Gas-Lift Well Procedures
- Well Evaluation
- Example Well Evaluations using Gas-Lift Software
- Typical Oil Well Example
- Typical Gas Well Example
- Review Sample Production Well Tests
- Gas-Lift Evaluation and Re-Design with GLM-in-Place (Gas-Lift Mandrels in-Place)
- Examples of Gas-Lift Software Design
- IPO (Injection Pressure Operated) Gas-Lift Valves
- PPO (Production Pressure Operated) Gas-Lift Valves
- Pack-off or CT (Coiled Tubing) Gas-Lift Valves
- Pilot-Operated or Intermittent Gas-Lift Valves
- Orifice Gas-Lift Valves
- Dynamic Gas-Lift Valve Mechanics
- Valve Performance Clearinghouse (VPC)
- DynaLift - Well Model Simulator
- Operation and Troubleshooting Tools
- Gas-Lift Performance Curves, Instability Conditions
- Gas-Lift Optimization and Allocation
- Real time Surveillance and Optimization of Gas-Lifted Wells
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