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PE Webinar: A series of 6 webinars which is currently going on this May – June

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Schlumberger Production Engineering Webinars
Date Technology Title
Hands-on Tips 2
Thursday, 30 April 2020 – 2 PM MERAK Manage your Asset & Prioritize your Business in This New Reality

Wednesday, 6 May 2020 – 10 DELFI

Introduction to DELFI & ProdOps Technology
AM
Thursday, 14 May 2020 – 2 PM PIPESIM Field Optimization for Gas Lift Wells using Network Optimizer

Tuesday, 19 May 2020 – 2 PM PIPESIM Automated Production Optimization Workflow

Delivered to you without your fingertips
Thursday, 11 June 2020 – 2 PM OLGA Optimize your Well with Virtual Prognostic Tools
Ensuring Safe Operation & Cost Effective
Thursday, 18 June 2020 – 2 PM Symmetry Digital Twin LNG Terminal

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Unlocking the Production Potential of Brown Fields

through Gas Lift Optimization GLO 2020 Course Schedule
IPTC-19786-MS
As a Brown Field, located in North Africa. Approximately 95% of Zarzaitine field
wells are utilizing Gas Lift as an artificial lift method. The field has a challenging
situation to optimize its Oil production; A detailed understanding of the production
system thermohydraulic, facility design and the amount of gas injection will
ultimately have a major effect on production target. For this purpose, modeling the
entire production system was necessary to properly account for the interdependency
of wells and surface equipment and determine the system deliverability as a whole
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producing wells including Gas lift mandrels. The model includes 112 Gas Lift wells
with a detailed Gas Lift valves system currently on production, each one has been
matched against the latest valid well test, Seven Separation Centers, Production
gathering pipelines, Production gathering Center and Gas Lift Injection Center. The
study has been executed in three major phases: Well Modeling & Calibration,
Network Modeling and Gas Lift Optimization.

Total Oil Production at C4: Actual Vs. Predicted

Zarzatine Completed Production
Network Model

Total Oil production rate has been defined as an objective function during the
optimization phase where the total Injected Gas Lift rate for the entire network and
for each individual well have been defined as varying parameters; By having a
network model calibrated against field data representing the operational conditions Q: What is the pressure that
of the asset, performing Gas Lift Optimization was the natural next step. registered on equipment or
Subsequently, by simulating the production system with different Gas Lift devices when fluid flows
Optimization scenarios to maximize Oil production rate under specific surface through?
facilities constraints using the Production Network Model, a better insight of how A: Backpressure
gas injection rate affects the total production and an understanding of whether a
smarter allocation of the current available gas is possible in comparison to the
different scenarios has been accomplished. As a result of this Optimization by
applying some local and global constraints a 10% Oil production increase has been
achieved.

Lifted gas performance curves with

optimized points

This practice has been shown to be successful as predictive technique in a variety of

ways specially for such brown fields with more than 60 years of production history.
As a next step, to properly manage the real potential of Brown fields, a full field
Integrated Asset Model could be created to capture the interaction between the
surface and the sub-surface. This model will account for the complex interactions
between reservoir, wells and pipelines.

Hands-on Tips
Lift gas multi-pointing in P/T profile task
As of the newest version, PIPESIM 2019.3 presents an option for lift gas injection
through several valves (multi-pointing) in the P/T profile task (it eliminates the needs
of having to run gas lift diagnostic task back and forth).

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The option can account for surface injection pressure and temperature, injection
rate, frictional pressure, gradient in the annulus, and possible throttling of the gas
lift valve

Step 1: Ensure we have a gas lift well configuration with Injection valve system

Choose Injection valve

system and fill the required
GLV data

Notice that under Gas Lift

System, Injection
Parameters, an Enable
multi-pointing check-box
appears

Step 2: Tick the Enable multi-pointing check-box, and fill the new required pop-up
data

Choose the desired options

from Diagnostics type,
Throttling, and Injection
gradient

Step 3: Run a p/t profile task

Click on P/T profile task

from the HOME ribbon
Fill up the boundary
conditions and calculated
variable

Click Run

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Step 4: Check the profile result

Go to profile results

Click-on Select columns..

to activate the ST Gas rate
column

Type in ‘gas’ to filter the

variables

Tick the Select check-box

beside Stock-tank gas
flowrate

Close the Select columns

window

If we look at the result, we would see that some of the GLVs (at greater depths)
inject the gases, while some of them (at shallower depths) don’t

The increment of stock-

tank gas rate between
GLVs is the individual
injected gas rate

Now if we compare with the non-multi-pointing result run (table below), we could
see that for the latter case, gas is only injected through the deepest valve. The value
of gas injected is also different because the below case does not incorporate GLV
mechanics into its calculation

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