35th Gas-Lift Workshop

Houston, Texas, USA

February 6 10, 2012

OLGA for Wells interface with

VPC Gas Lift Database
Dewayne Anderson, Principal Consultant
SPT Group, Houston Texas (USA)

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Outline
Steady-State, Multi-Steady-State, and Fully-Transient Tools
OLGA Transient Multiphase Flow Capabilities for Gas Lift
Systems
OLGA Transient Results for Gas Lift Heading
New OLGA Interface w/ VPC Database of GLV Performance
OLGA Gas Lift Case References

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Steady-State, Multi-Steady-State,
and Fully-Transient Gas-Lift Tools
Steady-State software tools are well-developed and wellintegrated for GL Design & Analysis
Multi-Steady-State softwares also offer additional tools
and capabilities to the Operator and Consultant
OLGA for Wells offers a unique Fully-Transient tool:
Identifies cases w/ NO Steady State (i.e., persistent slugging)
Evaluates inherently transient ramp-up slugs, intermittent GL,
etc.
Can also study fully-integrated transients w/ entire GL system
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OLGA Transient Multiphase Flow

Capabilities for Gas Lift Systems
In-Wellbore Transients
Liquid Loading
Casing Heading
Multi-Pointing (w/ Off-Design water cut, etc )
Gas Robbing (i.e., w/ Dual Tubings that share Annular Lift Gas)
Tubing Head Slugging Maybe no Multiphase Steady State?

System-Wide Transients
Upstream of GLV (e.g., GL Delivery System, Competing Wells)
Downstream of Well (e.g., Fluctuating Production Line Pressure)

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Liquid Loading Transients

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Gas Lift Valve Transients

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OLGA Transient Results for Gas Lift Heading

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New Easy Well Build, Including GLVs

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Complex Geometries Made Easy Dual Tbg

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OLGA Transient GLV Model

T-Sensitive Dome P
Transient J-T Effects
OLGA can now access
the VPC database to
improve:
Usability, and
Accuracy

OLGA Interface to VPC Database

Users need to buy the database (or

parts thereof) and save it under:
<installation _dir>\OLGA
7.1\OlgaExecutables_7_1\Data\VPC

A demo database is provided with

the OLGA installation to illustrate the
usage

Only for demo purpose, not suitable for

engineering use
Users need replace this demo database
with the real one in order to use the VPC

10-Seconds to add a VPC GLV

Dropdown list
of valves in
the VPC
database

OLGA Gas Lift Case References

Gas Lift Instability Resulted Production Loss and
its Remedy by Feedback Control: Dynamic
Simulation Results - SPE-084917
Occurrence of Density Wave Instability in Gas
Lifted Wells BHRG-2004
Modeling and Simulation of Instabilities in GasLifted Oil Wells SPE-112108
Use of Dynamic Simulation to Assist
Commissioning and Operating a 65-km SubseaTieback Gas Lift System SPE-121187
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