By: International Trainer

Dr. Eng. Labib Omar Hugari E-mail: labibhugari@gmail.com

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 Launch PIPESIM and select the option to create a new, well centric
workspace.
1. The Insert tab is active. From the Tubulars group of the Well editor,
add casing to the well by clicking Casing and dragging the casing onto
the wellhead. Drop the casing at the wellhead only when the casing is
green and the green circle is flashing as shown in the figure.

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 Do the following:
2. On the Tubulars tab of the well editor, click on the far right to
open the Casing Catalog.

3. In the Casing catalog, go to the OD column and select Greater than

(>) from the dropdown list and type in a value of 8 in the text field.
This will filter the catalog to display only casings with an OD (Outside
Diameter) greater than 8 in, as below.
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 Do the following:

4. Select the L80 grade of casing by highlighting the corresponding row,

and clicking OK.
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 5. Change the Bottom MD of the casing to 9000 ft.
6. Click to add a tubing string.

Note: Alternatively, you may add a tubing by dragging it from the Insert
toolbar as was done previously for the casing.

7. Specify the values shown below. Enter the numbers instead of using
the catalog.

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 Do the following:
8. On the Deviation survey
tab, change the Survey
type to 2D. Ensure Angle
is selected as the
Dependent parameter,
then enter the MD and
TVD values for a 2D
survey as shown below.

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 9. From FORMAT tab > select 2D

• The dynamic well schematic

diagram on the left represents the
wellbore configuration
(directional).

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 Do the following:
10. On the Heat transfer tab, configure the Heat transfer parameters as
shown in the following figure.

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 Do the following:
11. On the Completions tab, add a completion to the well by dragging it
from the Insert tab or clicking the button. Enter the Completion
information as shown in the following figure..
Note: The IPR plot will not display because no fluid has been defined yet.

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 Build Gas production well Model
Do the following:
12. On the Home tab, select
Compositional from the Fluid
manager option list.
13. In the Component/model settings
tab of the Fluid Manager, select
the PVT package and models as
the next.
14. In the fluids components select
check box components as in the
flowing table.

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 Moles of components
Component Moles
Water 0
Methane 78
15. Add C7+ as a new component.
Ethane 8
Pseudo- Molecular Specific Propane 3.5
component Weight Gravity Isobutane 1.5
C7+ 115 0.683 Butane 1.2
Isopentane 0.8
Pentane 0.5
Hexane 0.5
C7+ 6
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15. Create a new C7+ pseudo-component as
a new component, by clicking New at
the top of the Fluid Components section
and enter only the Name, Molecular
weight, and Specific gravity. All other
properties will be automatically
calculated based on the properties you
specified. The specified values will have
a normal (non-italicized) text style, while
the calculated values will be italicized.
Click OK when complete.

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16. Go to the Fluids tab and click to
create a new fluid from the
components you just added to
the fluid template.
17. Double-click the row of the
newly-created fluid to open the
Fluid editor. Enter the moles
for each component as shown
in the following table. You will
notice that the phase diagram
automatically updates as you
enter the moles for each
component.

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18. In the Flash/Tune fluid
section, you may enter any
pressure and temperature
and the fluid will be flashed
at those conditions. The
phase properties and
compositions resulting
from the flash will be
displayed.
• Flash the fluid at the
reservoir conditions: 4600
psia and 280 deg F. What
phases are present? What
percentage of each phase is
present?
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 19. Change the number of moles of water in the fluid to 1.89. You will
observe that a very small amount of a liquid water phase appears.
Change the number of moles to 1.88, and notice that the fluid
reverts to a single gas phase. The fluid is at the water dew point.
It is virtually saturated with water and cannot hold any more water
in the vapor phase.
Note: Water can be carried along with the gas in the vapor phase or
entrained in the gas in droplet form. There is a maximum amount of
water vapor that a gas is able to hold at any given temperature and
pressure. A gas is completely saturated when it contains the maximum
amount of water vapor for the given pressure and temperature conditions.

20. Change the number of moles of water to 1.88.

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 21. Close the fluid editor and return to the Fluids tab of the Fluid
manager to see the GOR and Water cut values for the fluid at
standard conditions. They should match the ones below.

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 Do the following:
22. On the Downhole equipment tab, add a Packer at 8,450 ft to
prevent flow up the annulus between the tubing and casing.
23. On the Home tab, select Simulation settings and ensure that the
Hagedorn-Brown correlation for vertical multiphase flow and the
Beggs & Brill Revised correlation for horizontal multiphase
flow, are selected.
24. Exit the Simulation settings and save your workspace as (Gas
Well Model).

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 In this task, you will perform a Nodal analysis operation
to determine the absolute open flow potential (AOFP) of
the well and its operating/solution point (i.e. the
intersection of the inflow and outflow curves), for a given
flowing wellhead (outlet) pressure. To do this, you will
need to:
• Add a Nodal analysis point at the bottom-hole to divide
the system into two parts, inflow and outflow as
described previously. The inflow curve on the resulting
plot extends from the reservoir to the bottom-hole,
while the outflow curve describes flow from the
bottom-hole to the wellhead.
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 Do the following:
1. On the Home tab, click
Nodal analysis.
2. When prompted to choose
the nodal analysis point
location, select Bottomhole
and click OK.
3. Enter an Outlet pressure
value of 300 psia as below,
and click Run.
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 The System results plot is generated and displays the operating point.

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 • The value of this operating envelope is that it allows you to
understand where the system is currently operating, by
comparing its operating point to the envelope.
• If the operating point is to the right of the operating
envelope, the flow-rate exceeds the erosional velocity limit
and it may be necessary to choke back the well slightly.
• As a gas well, the liquid loading line is also annotated as an
additional boundary for the operating envelope.

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 H.W.

Try to do Lecture_3

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