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    This document discusses restarting oil wells that have been shut in. It provides information on: 1. The basic challenges of production from reservoirs to separators and how reservoir pressure, water cut, and oil chemistry can impact restarting. 2. What happens when a well is shut in, including how gas and water separate over time. 3. Techniques that can be used to restart wells, such as opening the well fast to draw out fluid, using annulus pressure, big chokes, patience, flashing, flowback, nitrogen lift, electrical submersible pumps, swabbing, and gas lift. 4. Potential concerns with restarting like sanding, hydrates, and process stability and

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    This document discusses restarting oil wells that have been shut in. It provides information on: 1. The basic challenges of production from reservoirs to separators and how reservoir pressure, water cut, and oil chemistry can impact restarting. 2. What happens when a well is shut in, including how gas and water separate over time. 3. Techniques that can be used to restart wells, such as opening the well fast to draw out fluid, using annulus pressure, big chokes, patience, flashing, flowback, nitrogen lift, electrical submersible pumps, swabbing, and gas lift. 4. Potential concerns with restarting like sanding, hydrates, and process stability and

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    Restarting Well

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    Sunny Chaubey
    This document discusses restarting oil wells that have been shut in. It provides information on: 1. The basic challenges of production from reservoirs to separators and how reservoir pressure, water cut, and oil chemistry can impact restarting. 2. What happens when a well is shut in, including how gas and water separate over time. 3. Techniques that can be used to restart wells, such as opening the well fast to draw out fluid, using annulus pressure, big chokes, patience, flashing, flowback, nitrogen lift, electrical submersible pumps, swabbing, and gas lift. 4. Potential concerns with restarting like sanding, hydrates, and process stability and

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    Restarting wells

    The basic problem of


    production
     Getting fluids from
    reservoir to the
    300 psi
    250 psi
    separator.
    1. From reservoir to
    bottom of wellbore
    150 psi

    (drawdown)
    2. From bottom of
    wellbore to
    wellhead
    3600 psi 3. Across choke
    4000 psi
    4. From choke across
    flowline to separator
    The basic problem of
    production

    • Completion design
    We • Choke
    create • Flowline dimensions
    • Separator pressure

    From • Reservoir pressure


    the • Water cut
    reservoir • Oil chemistry (PVT)
    What happens when a well
    is shut in?

    Pr Pr

    Pwf
    What happens when the
    well is shut in?
    Initially filled with
    fluid Gas cap forms
    What happens when the
    well is shut in?
    Initially filled with And water settles
    fluid out
    In low pressure wells, tubing
    head pressure can be
    deceptive
    Early gas Late gas
    500 psi 1000 psi
    breakout breakout

    2000 psi

    3000 psi

    3500 psi 3600 psi


    Slowly depressurising well
    won’t work
    Open the well fast
    Draw out the fluid like in a shaken coke bottle
    Velocity is important to
    unloading a well
    Larger pipe means lower velocity.
    Annulus pressure can help
    For a successful restart

    1. Open tubing only.


    2. Keep annulus closed.
    3. Big choke.
    4. Patience.
    Concerns

    • Sanding

    • Hydrates

    • Joule-Thomson effect

    • Process stability
    Things we can do
    When the well doesn’t restart…
    Flashing

     Ingredients
    • Spare train and
    header
     Instructions
    • Depressurise spare
    train and header
    • Line up well to space
    train and header
    • Open well
    Flowback

     Ingredients
    • Flow back package
    • Flare pit
     Instructions
    • Rig up flow back
    package to well
    • Open well to pit
    Nitrogen lift
    Nitrogen lift

     Ingredients
    • Coiled tubing
    • Nitrogen
     Instructions
    • Run in hole
    • Circulate the nitrogen
    Electrical submersible pump
     Easy to make a well flow.

     Harder to operate.

    Pump

    Gas separator

    Motor
    Electrical submersible pump
    Things done elsewhere
    Swabbing

     Ingredients:
    • Slickline
    • Swab cap
     Instructions
    • Run in hole
    • Pull out of hole
    Gas lift
    Gas lift gas
    injected into
    annulus

    Gas lift
    valve

    Packer
    Gas lift
    Any questions?
    Thank you

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