Production Engineering
Inflow performance, horizontal and fractured well inflow, multiphase tubing flow, gas well liquid loading, nodal analysis, chokes, sucker-rod pumping, gas lift, ESPs, PCPs and plunger lift, surface facilities and production surveillance, applied to a Cardium horizontal well in Alberta with federal and AER rules on venting and methane.
PET-340 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 3 h 54 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Petroleum Engineering
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the production system from reservoir to sales point, build a pressure budget for a well, and explain the production engineer's role in an operating company.
- Construct inflow performance relationships using the productivity index, Vogel's equation, the composite IPR and Fetkovich's method from well test data.
- Estimate productivity for horizontal, fractured and multistage fractured wells, and describe how transient inflow in tight reservoirs changes a well's IPR over time.
- Explain multiphase flow regimes, holdup and slip, and calculate tubing performance curves with a drift-flux model to compare tubing sizes.
- Predict liquid loading in gas wells with the Turner critical rate, and evaluate remedies such as velocity strings, compression, foamers and plunger lift.
- Perform nodal analysis by intersecting inflow and outflow curves, find a well's operating point, and forecast when a well will stop flowing.
- Size chokes with the Gilbert correlation, recognize critical flow, check erosional velocity, and relate flowline and separator pressure to well performance.
- Screen artificial lift methods for a well, and design and diagnose a sucker-rod pumping system with pump displacement, rod loads, gearbox torque and dynamometer cards.
- Design a continuous gas lift installation with an injection depth and valve spacing, and find the optimum injection rate from a gas lift performance curve.
- Size electric submersible pumps and progressing cavity pumps, and judge when plunger lift is suitable from the gas-liquid ratio and casing pressure.
- Size separators and treaters, manage produced water and flow assurance problems, and apply Canadian and US rules on flaring, venting and methane emissions.
- Run production surveillance and diagnosis, forecast decline, and compare artificial lift plans on recovery, cost, run life and NPV to recommend a plan.
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 54 min total · final exam
- 1 The production system and the production engineer 20 min · quiz
- 2 Inflow performance: productivity index, Vogel and Fetkovich 19 min · quiz
- 3 Inflow from horizontal and fractured wells 19 min · quiz
- 4 Tubing performance and multiphase flow 19 min · quiz
- 5 Gas wells and liquid loading 20 min · quiz
- 6 Nodal analysis 19 min · quiz
- 7 Chokes, flowlines and surface pressure 20 min · quiz
- 8 Artificial lift selection and sucker-rod pumping 18 min · quiz
- 9 Gas lift 20 min · quiz
- 10 Electric submersible pumps, progressing cavity pumps and plunger lift 20 min · quiz
- 11 Surface facilities, produced water and emissions 19 min · quiz
- 12 Production surveillance and the artificial lift plan: capstone 21 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Inflow performance, horizontal and fractured well inflow, multiphase tubing flow, gas well liquid loading, nodal analysis, chokes, sucker-rod pumping, gas lift, ESPs, PCPs and plunger lift, surface facilities and production surveillance, applied to a Cardium horizontal well in Alberta with federal and AER rules on venting and methane.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 3.