Gas Lift Systems Design, Operation and Optimisation
- Course covers gas lift system design, operation, diagnosis, and optimization.
- Gain practical understanding of gas lift methods and their application.
- Designed for petroleum engineers or field staff involved in gas lift systems.
- Combines live training with self-directed learning and group discussions.
- Participants will learn gas lift design, troubleshooting, and optimization.
Overview
The Online Gas Lift System Training course covers the design, operation, diagnosis, and optimization of gas lift systems. It aims to provide participants with an understanding of gas lift methods, equipment, and troubleshooting techniques. The course structure includes 12 modules delivered over 4 days, combining live instructor-led training with self-directed learning. Designed for petroleum engineering or field staff, the course enables participants to perform gas lift design procedures, diagnose well performance issues, and optimize gas lift systems for production efficiency and reliability.
Who should attend
Petroleum Engineers
Course Content
DESCRIPTION
Course Structure: 12 modules of 1½ hours each, delivered over 4 days
DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE…
- Petroleum engineering or field staff involved in the selection, design, operation or troubleshooting of gas lift systems
HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE
- Combination of live instructor-led training coupled with self-directed learning, live Q&A sessions and group discussions
THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING
The objectives of the course will be to enable participants to:
- Become familiar with gas lift methods, concepts of operation and equipment
- Perform gas lift design procedures for new or existing wells
- Recognise the correct data required for well analysis and troubleshooting
- Diagnose and troubleshoot gas lift well performance
- Optimise the gas lift system for production and long term reliability
TOPICS
Gas lift systems concepts and equipment
- Introductions and course objectives
- Review and recap of well and reservoir performance fundamentals; oil composition and fluid characterisation
- Gas lift introduction; concepts and theory, gas lift performance curves and depth of injection
- Pressure gradient traverse plots and generation using multiphase flow correlations
- Gas lift equipment overview; gas lift valve operation and equations; installation and removal
- Teardown and inspection of gas lift equipment; well integrity issues
- Gas lift references and resources
- Practical workshop session; gas lift valve hand calculations
Gas lift systems design
- Gas lift design overview (conceptual vs. detailed) and principles
- Generating 4 variable lift curves for gas lift wells
- Practical workshop session; conceptual gas lift design
- Gas lift unloading process and key factors to ensure success
- Consideration of safety factors for mandrel spacing and valves operation
- Detailed gas lift design procedure for continuous gas lift wells; special applications
- Practical workshop session; conceptual and detailed gas lift design and exporting VLPs
Gas lift systems diagnosis, practical troubleshooting and optimisation
- Gas lift operations, monitoring and procedure for unloading a new well
- Gas lift diagnosis and troubleshooting; key concepts and procedure for analysis
- Flowing gradient survey interpretation and matching; determination of injection depth, orifice pressure drop, etc.
- Practical workshop sessions; building and matching of well models using field data
- Practical workshop sessions; gas lift well diagnosis using gradient traverse plots with field data
- Dealing with problem wells (instability, slugging, multi-point injection etc.)
- Re-design of a gas lift valve setting for an existing well to address these problems
- Practical workshop session; gas lift well re-design using existing mandrels with field data
- Introduction to surface network modelling; well performance curves, interactions between wells and pipelines
- Shortage of gas supply; gas-lift allocation concepts & multi-well optimisation techniques
- Practical workshop session; building a wellhead platform model with field data
- Matching field performance and running gas lift gas allocation sensitivities
- Review, conclusions and evaluation form completion
Note:
Each day will include practical workshop sessions illustrating the application of theory to gas-lift well models. Participants are encouraged to bring field data and examples to interpret and analyse.
Course Cost: £1950 Euros + Vat
