Assessment of Artificial Lift Methods for a Heavy Oil Field in Kuwait

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Jeremy Worth ◽  
Eissa M Al-safran ◽  
Amit Choudhuri ◽  
Ahmad Khalid Al-Jasmi
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Artificial Lift

Overcoming Challenges in ESP Operation in Ultradeepwater Heavy-Oil Atlanta Field

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (03) ◽  
pp. 46-47
Author(s):  
Chris Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Primary System ◽  
Artificial Lift ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Production History ◽  
Electrical Submersible Pump ◽  
Water Cut ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Offshore Oil

This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 201135, “Challenges in ESP Operation in Ultradeepwater Heavy-Oil Atlanta Field,” by Alexandre Tavares, Paulo Sérgio Rocha, SPE, and Marcelo Paulino Santos, Enauta, et al., prepared for the 2020 SPE Virtual Artificial Lift Conference and Exhibition - Americas, 10-12 November. The paper has not been peer reviewed. Atlanta is a post-salt offshore oil field in the Santos Basin, 185 km southeast of Rio de Janeiro. The combination of ultradeep water (1550 m) and heavy, viscous oil creates a challenging scenario for electrical submersible pump (ESP) applications. The complete paper discusses the performance of an ESP system using field data and software simulations. Introduction From initial screening to define the best artificial-lift method for the Atlanta Field’s requirements, options such as hydraulic pumps, hydraulic submersible pumps, multiphase pumps, ESPs, and gas lift (GL) were considered. Analysis determined that the best primary system was one using an in-well ESP with GL as backup. After an initial successful drillstem test (DST) with an in-well ESP, the decision was made, for the second DST, to install the test pump inside the riser, near seabed depth. It showed good results; comparison of oil-production potential between the pump installed inside a structure at the seabed—called an artificial lift skid (ALS)—and GL suggested that the latter would prove uneconomical. The artificial lift development concept is shown in Fig. 1. ESP Design ESP sizing was performed with a commercial software and considered available information on reservoir, completion, subsea, and topsides. To ensure that the ESP chosen would meet production and pressure boosts required in the field, base cases were built and analyzed for different moments of the field’s life. The cases considered different productivity indexes (PI), reservoir pressures, and water production [and consequently water cut (WC)] as their inputs. The design considers using pumps with a best efficiency point (BEP) for water set at high flow rates (17,500 B/D for in-well and 34,000 B/D for ALS). Thus, when the pumps deal with viscous fluid, the curve will have a BEP closer to the current operating point. Design boundaries of the in-well ESP and the ALS are provided in the complete paper, as are some of the operational requirements to be implemented in the ESP design to minimize risk. Field Production History In 2014, two wells were drilled, tested, and completed with in-well ESP as the primary artificial lift method. Because of delays in delivery of a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO), the backup (ALS) was not installed until January 2018. In May 2018, Atlanta Field’s first oil was achieved through ATL-2’s in-well ESP. After a few hours operating through the in-well ESP, it prematurely failed, and the ALS of this well was successfully started up. Fifteen days after first oil, ATL-3’s in-well ESP was started up, but, as occurred with ATL-2, failed after a short period. Its ALS was successfully started up, and both wells produced slightly more than 1 year in that condition.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF DAMAGE ROD STRING COMPONENTS IN SUCKER ROD PUMP IN THE FIELD SS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Fitrianti Fitrianti ◽  
Anwar Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
High Viscosity ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Stroke Length ◽  
Pump Speed ◽  
Artificial Lift ◽  
Sucker Rod ◽  
Sucker Rod Pump ◽  
High Viscosity Oil ◽  
Viscosity Fluid

Field SS is a Heavy Oil field which means high viscosity oil making it difficult to flow. Therefore, artificial lift was used in this field to help lifting the high viscosity fluid, i.e. sucker rod pump (SRP). In the last several years, problem of the damage to the rod string was frequently occur. Rod string damage is usually indicated by the occurrence of broken or detached components. In order to overcome the damage of rod string components on the sucker rod pump, several parameters that causes rod string damage in 41 well samples in the field SS were analyzed and then recommendations were made as an alternative to minimize the occurrence of rod string damage. After analyzing the parameters that can cause rod string damage on 41 well samples in SS field, the cause of the breakdown of rod string is fluid pounding for 37 samples well, while the causes for 4 samples of other wells is not detected. After that, recommendation efforts is done, like size down pump speed and stroke length for 9 samples of wells, size down pump size and pump speed for 6 samples of wells and size down pump speed for 22 samples well. As for the undetected cause 4 samples of wells, is recommended to do proactive well service.

Assessment of artificial lift methods for a heavy oil field in Kuwait

2019 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 835-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Worth ◽  
Eissa Al-Safran ◽  
Amit Choudhuri ◽  
Ahmad Al-Jasmi
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Artificial Lift

Expierence of development of the Liael area of Yaregskoye heavy oil field using different technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
S.M. Durkin ◽  
◽  
I.N. Menshikova ◽  
L.M. Rusin ◽  
A.A. Terentiev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Field

Application of Polymer Flooding in the Revitalization of a Mature Heavy Oil Field

2021 ◽  
pp. 108695
Author(s):  
L.F. Lamas ◽  
V.E. Botechia ◽  
D.J. Schiozer ◽  
M.L. Rocha ◽  
M. Delshad
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Polymer Flooding ◽  
Oil Field

Application of CSS to Develop a Thick Heavy Oil Field in South Oman

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Omar Al-Manhali ◽  
Mohammed Al-rawahi ◽  
Suleiman Mohammed Al-hinai ◽  
Abdullah Alwazeer ◽  
Simon John Brissenden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Oil Field

Review of Research on Interlayer SAGD in Domestic and Foreign

2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 5142-5145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Luo
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Reservoir ◽  
Steam Chamber ◽  
Heavy Oil Reservoir

China is rich in resources of heavy oil.But some oilfield heavy oil reservoir in the development process will encounter interlining, affecting the development effect. In the process of SAGD to carry out the basic research of reservoir interlayer is helpful to identify the basic attributes of reservoir in the interlayer. The interlayer of SAGD development process is helpful to find the study focus and direction of development. Steam chamber breakthrough research achievements of interlining research abroad, summarizes the steam chamber breakthrough interlining, provide technical support for the oil field SAGD breakthrough interlining, it is of great significance for promoting SAGD efficient development.

Numerical Simulation of Gas Lift Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence for a Middle Eastern Oil Field

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ahmed Al-Janabi ◽  
Omar F. Al-Fatlawi ◽  
Dhifaf J. Sadiq ◽  
Haider Abdulmuhsin Mahmood ◽  
Mustafa Alaulddin Al-Juboori
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Reservoir Pressure ◽  
Artificial Lift ◽  
Gas Lift

Abstract Artificial lift techniques are a highly effective solution to aid the deterioration of the production especially for mature oil fields, gas lift is one of the oldest and most applied artificial lift methods especially for large oil fields, the gas that is required for injection is quite scarce and expensive resource, optimally allocating the injection rate in each well is a high importance task and not easily applicable. Conventional methods faced some major problems in solving this problem in a network with large number of wells, multi-constrains, multi-objectives, and limited amount of gas. This paper focuses on utilizing the Genetic Algorithm (GA) as a gas lift optimization algorithm to tackle the challenging task of optimally allocating the gas lift injection rate through numerical modeling and simulation studies to maximize the oil production of a Middle Eastern oil field with 20 production wells with limited amount of gas to be injected. The key objective of this study is to assess the performance of the wells of the field after applying gas lift as an artificial lift method and applying the genetic algorithm as an optimization algorithm while comparing the results of the network to the case of artificially lifted wells by utilizing ESP pumps to the network and to have a more accurate view on the practicability of applying the gas lift optimization technique. The comparison is based on different measures and sensitivity studies, reservoir pressure, and water cut sensitivity analysis are applied to allow the assessment of the performance of the wells in the network throughout the life of the field. To have a full and insight view an economic study and comparison was applied in this study to estimate the benefits of applying the gas lift method and the GA optimization technique while comparing the results to the case of the ESP pumps and the case of naturally flowing wells. The gas lift technique proved to have the ability to enhance the production of the oil field and the optimization process showed quite an enhancement in the task of maximizing the oil production rate while using the same amount of gas to be injected in the each well, the sensitivity analysis showed that the gas lift method is comparable to the other artificial lift method and it have an upper hand in handling the reservoir pressure reduction, and economically CAPEX of the gas lift were calculated to be able to assess the time to reach a profitable income by comparing the results of OPEX of gas lift the technique showed a profitable income higher than the cases of naturally flowing wells and the ESP pumps lifted wells. Additionally, the paper illustrated the genetic algorithm (GA) optimization model in a way that allowed it to be followed as a guide for the task of optimizing the gas injection rate for a network with a large number of wells and limited amount of gas to be injected.

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