Capillary Lift Systems

RABEA HASSAN, MENA GL/CAP/PL PRODUCT LINE MANAGER

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Capillary Lift Systems
Capillary
Weatherford capillary injection systems help
injection systems
offer artificial-lift
you maximize production, ensure safety for
efficiency due to your workers, meet your ecological
their low initial responsibilities, and protect your investment
capital expense,
reduced
Our exclusive technologies and services are
operating costs, designed from the ground up to help extend
and fast
installation gas wells with perforated intervals onshore,
speeds. offshore, and across the globe

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History of a Gas Well–Loss of Velocity Over Time
Stable Flow Unstable Flow Stable Flow
Initial
Production Well
Dead
RATE

Decreasing Gas Rate with Decreasing Reservoir Pressure TIME

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Gas Well Loading

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How to Determine “Liquid-Loading”?

Analyze the well’s
production decline
curve

Using WellFlo2014,
evaluate and predict
when “liquid-loading”
conditions will occur
in the wellbore

Well Modeling
requires well test data
and validated flowing
gradients (flow
correlations)

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Capillary and Chemical Applications

Liquid Loading

Corrosion Control

Scale Control

Salt Control

Paraffin Control

H2S Control

Combination Products Capillary Injection is a Chemical Delivery
System

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Capillary Injection Installation Examples

Capillary
Hanger

Chemical Tank Injection

Injection Manifold
Manifold

Chemical Pump Chemical Pump

 1/4” or 3/8” Capillary Injection Tubing

 Primarily Used for Foamer and Inhibitors
 Others _ Fresh Water Injection(SALT)
Injection Injection
Valve Valve

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Conventional Capillary Installation

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Renaissance Systems

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Renaissance Systems
Safety valve-
Weatherford Renaissance SSVs can return wells to
related problems production and enhance production on other wells
can result in faster, easier, and more economically than traditional
decreased or methods
shut-in
production,
Renaissance™ systems can restore production in wells
which can with damaged safety valves that have caused shut-in
require production. Renaissance systems can also increase
expensive production in wells experiencing production-
workover
operations to pull
suppressing issues―varying from liquid loading in gas
and sometimes wells to wax inhibition and retrofitting gas lift in
replace the compromised oil wells―without sacrificing surface or
tubing subsurface safety-valve functionality.

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Renaissance Family of Products–WCS Opti-Chem™
WCS Opti-Chem:
Continuous Chemical Renaissance
gate penetration
Injection Capillary String system
System with Safety Valve

1/4- or 3/8-in.
WCS capillary
Opti-Chem injection string
safety valve
CC1-A
chemical
Packer
injection
valve

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Renaissance Family of Products_ WISH-C System
 Use a Capillary string below TR-SCSSV
to inject treatments such as surfactants
to combat liquid loading or fresh water
to minimize salt deposition.
 Current safety valve is locked out and
WLRSV for WCS is installed.
 Chemical injection valves hold control
pressure to open WLRSV as well as
inject chemical to end of tubing.
 Chemical treatments can be pumped
down the existing safety valve control
line

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 10,550’ Wilcox Well Liquid Loading
10,450’, 2-3/8”, 4.6 ppf, L-80 tbg
4% CO2, 20 ppm H2S
BHT = 250oF, WHFT = 100oF 300 MCFPD
100 PSI
1,000 MCFPD
2,500 PSI Operator installs compression Capillary Foamer
500 MCFPD program
200 PSI soap stick program

500 MCFPD
900 PSI

Choke, X/64ths

Produced Water Chlorides = 48,000 ppm; pH = 6.3

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W-CVR Systems

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Extended Perforation Completion Challenges

Production String: 2 3/8-in., 4.7 lb/ft
2 3/8”

Casing: 4 1/2-in., 11.6 lb/ft tubing
2 3/8-in.
– 4.000-in. ID tubing
– Flow area: 12.5683 in.2
4 1/2-in.
casing
Critical
CriticalFlow Requirement:
Flow Requirement:
200-psi WHBP(FTP):
200-psi WHBP(FTP):
CFR for 2 3/8-in. = 406 mcf/d Extended
CFR
CFRfor
for4 1/2-in. = 1.63
2 3/8-in. MMcf/d
= 406 mcf/d perforation
CFR for 4 1/2-in. = 1.63 MMcf/d interval

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Dead String Application

Dead String: 2 7/8-in. flush joint 2 3/8-in.
tubing

Casing: 4 1/2-in.
4 1/2–in.
– Flow Area: 12.5683-in.2 casing

Annular flow area, 2 7/8-in. 2 3/8-in.
inside 4 1/2-in. flow sub
– Flow Area: 6.0768-in.2 2 3/8-in.
WXN
Critical Flow Requirement @ 200-psi WHBP: plug

CFR for 2 3/8-in. = 406 mcf/d

CFR for 4 1/2- x 2 7/8-in. annulus = 790 mcf/d 2 7/8-in. tubing
dead string
CFR for 4 1/2-in. = 1.63 mmcfd
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 WCVR System _ Foam Injection and Plunger Lift

1/4-in. capillary
injection string
Critical Flow Requirement @ 200-psi WHBP:

2 3/8-in. = 406 mcf/d Flow sub

2 3/8-in. = 168 mcf/d with foamer

4 1/2-in. casing = 1.63 Mmcf/d WXN

retrievable plug
4 1/2- x 2 7/8-in. annulus = 790 mcf/d
Injection mandrel
4 1/2- x 2 7/8-in. annulus = 327 mcf/d with foamer

Dead string

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Extended Perforation Interval Lift Options

CVR iCVR+ Xtra-Lift

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Have You Ever Heard Any Of These Comments?

“My production dropped below the decline curve”

“This well can flow for several days, then it dies”

“This well comes right back after dropping soap sticks”

“I have to swab this well after unexpected shut downs”

“My casing and tubing pressures fluctuate daily”

“The production on this well is very inconsistent”

“My well is not loaded, it does not make any water”
Let’s discuss today…we can help!
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 RigLess Production Enhancement Solutions

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RigLess Production Enhancement
Solutions

Weatherford offers a broad range of
innovative solutions engineered to retrofit
existing wellbores with various artificial lift
solutions

Solutions span across several product groups
including Completion Systems, Thru Tubing
Intervention Services and Artificial Lift
Systems

Integration across Weatherford’s product
families provide a large variety of flexibility
and solution solving experience to address
unique challenges for RigLess ALS Solutions

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RigLess SSV Intervention

Renaissance WDCL RigLess Safety
Valve Reclamation-
– Returning shut in wells to
production due to SCSSV failure
– Replacing a blocked, leaking or
burst SSV control line with a new
control line
– Insert SCSSVs for damaged seal
bores where conventional insert
SV fail to seal

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RigLess Production Enhancement Solutions

Renaissance WCS Capillary injection
while maintaining SCSSV
functionality.
– Foam lift
– Wax dissolution
– Scale inhibition
– Halite/Salt washing
– Corrosion treatment- H2S/CO2
scavenging

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RigLess Production Enhancement Solutions

Gas Lift Retrofits- Adding Gas Lift
capability to existing tubing string
– Enable the deepening injection points
in existing gas lift installations
 Weatherford’s RGLS systems
 Slickline Packoff Systems
– Enables the installation of insert velocity
or gas lift strings to surface while
maintaining SCSSV control and
functionality
 Weatherford’s IGLS system

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Gas Lift Packoff System

Overview
• Reduce workover costs by installing either a single or multiple gas lift points
into an existing production well without recovering the current completion.

Advantages
• Substantial equipment and workover cost be saved.
• The well does not have to be killed during the installation
• Tubing pack-off are also used to replace leaking gas lift mandrels or hole in
tubing.
• Easy to Install and retrieve gas lift packoff equipment by using wireline
• Flexible
• Very few moving parts.

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RigLess Production Enhancement Solution Summary

– SCSSV’s Failure Remediation

– Capillary Insert string with SCSSV control
– Gas Lift Retrofit with SCSSV control
 Deepen Lift Point
 Thru-Tubing reconfiguration for gas lift capability
 Insert String- Gas Lift or Velocity
– Gas Lift pack off system

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