Evaluation Of A Composite Device With An Embedded Non-Intrusive Water Cut Sensing Platform For Production Tubing And Well Completions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Parker ◽  
Giles Edward ◽  
Ramesh M Ladwa
2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. Wojtanowicz ◽  
Ephim I. Shirman

Dual-completed wells with Downhole Water Sink (DWS) are used for water coning control in oil reservoirs with bottom water drive. In DWS wells, the second (bottom) completion—placed in the water column—is used for draining water. This prevents the water cone invasion and allows free oil inflow in the top completion. The decision on using DWS or a conventional (single-completed) well is based upon deliverability comparison of the two wells. This paper shows how to describe DWS well deliverability in terms of the top and bottom production rates, water cut, and pressure drawdown. Also, the effect of pressure interference between two well completions on deliverability limits has been studied and qualified experimentally. DWS well deliverability depends on two variables, pressure drawdown and water drainage rate, and is described by a three-dimensional Inflow Performance Domain (IPD). Visual-Basic software based on a new analytical model of IPD has been developed to calculate critical (fluid breakthrough) rates for oil and water. The critical rates identify inflow conditions to the well’s completions—single or two-phase inflow. Also calculated are the values of water cut and maximum pressure drawdown at the well. An example demonstrates the procedure and a complete IPD plot. The experimental study, using a Hele-Shaw physical model of DWS well, demonstrates the reduction of well’s deliverability caused by pressure interference from the second (bottom) completion. The experiments have shown, however, that the deliverability decrease is small and over-compensated by the increase of oil rate due to simultaneous reduction of water cut.


2021 ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
V. A. Ogai ◽  
N. G. Musakaev ◽  
A. Yu. Yushkov ◽  
V. O. Dovbysh ◽  
M. A. Vasilev

The issue of operation water-cut and "self-kills" wells is one of major aspects in gas production. One of the methods of solving this problem is the introduction of foaming agent into the well. The effectiveness of these technologies requires a theoretical and experimental study of gas-liquid flow with surfactants. We have analyzed existing works and have found out that experimental research in this area was carried out at atmospheric pressure. At the same time, the pressure in the well varies with the length of the wellbore and can affect the properties of foaming agent. The article presents a description of a facility for the study of gas-liquid flows with foaming agents at different pressure values. A method of conducting experiments on the facility, simulating a section of the production tubing of a vertical gas well, has been developed. The relations allowing calculating the volume contents of the phases in the gas-liquid flow with surfactants are proposed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 4108-4111
Author(s):  
M. R. Arisar ◽  
M. Z. Hingoro ◽  
F. N. Abro ◽  
S. Nawab ◽  
I. A. Hullio

Well completion is the process of construction a well geared up for production or injection. This mainly involves preparing the bottom of the hole to the required conditions, running the production tubing and associated downhole tools. Production from a multizone well can be obtained from a single tubing string as well as from dual tubing strings but it depends on pressure difference, depth and fluid present in the formation. This paper is based on the optimum well completions design for a multizone well of the Tal block region which contains four reservoirs of different formations: Lockhart (limestone), Hangu and Lumshiwal (sandstone), Samanasuk (limestone) & Datta (sandstone) having pressures of 7432psia, 7563psia, 7843psia, and 7982psia respectively. The well is producing four zones (multilayer well) and the generated numerical model for each completion (single string multizone completion and dual string multizone completion) shows better performance and economic feasibility.


Author(s):  
Russell L. Steere ◽  
Eric F. Erbe

Thin sheets of acrylamide and agar gels of different concentrations were prepared and washed in distilled water, cut into pieces of appropriate size to fit into complementary freeze-etch specimen holders (1) and rapidly frozen. Freeze-etching was accomplished in a modified Denton DFE-2 freeze-etch unit on a DV-503 vacuum evaporator.* All samples were etched for 10 min. at -98°C then re-cooled to -150°C for deposition of Pt-C shadow- and C replica-films. Acrylamide gels were dissolved in Chlorox (5.251 sodium hypochlorite) containing 101 sodium hydroxide, whereas agar gels dissolved rapidly in the commonly used chromic acid cleaning solutions. Replicas were picked up on grids with thin Foimvar support films and stereo electron micrographs were obtained with a JEM-100 B electron microscope equipped with a 60° goniometer stage.Characteristic differences between gels of different concentrations (Figs. 1 and 2) were sufficiently pronounced to convince us that the structures observed are real and not the result of freezing artifacts.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Daparo ◽  
Luis Soliz ◽  
Eduardo Roberto Perez ◽  
Carlos Iver Vidal Saravia ◽  
Philip Duke Nguyen ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (19) ◽  
pp. 2272-2290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aafrin M. Pettiwala ◽  
Prabhat K. Singh

Background: Amino acids are crucially involved in a myriad of biological processes. Any aberrant changes in physiological level of amino acids often manifest in common metabolic disorders, serious neurological conditions and cardiovascular diseases. Thus, devising methods for detection of trace amounts of amino acids becomes highly elemental to their efficient clinical diagnosis. Recently, the domain of developing optical sensors for detection of amino acids has witnessed significant activity which is the focus of the current review article. Methods: We undertook a detailed search of the peer-reviewed literature that primarily deals with optical sensors for amino acids and focuses on the use of different type of materials as a sensing platform. Results: Ninety-five papers have been included in the review, majority of which deal with optical sensors. We attempt to systematically classify these contributions based on the applications of various chemical and biological scaffolds such as polymers, supramolecular assemblies, nanoparticles, DNA, heparin etc for the sensing of amino acids. This review identifies that supramolecular assemblies and nanomaterial continue to be commonly used platforms to devise sensors for amino acids followed by surfactant assemblies. Conclusion: The broad implications of amino acids in human health and diagnosis have stirred a lot of interest to develop optimized optical detection systems for amino acids in recent years, using different materials based on chemical and biological scaffolds. We have also attempted to highlight the merits and demerits of some of the noteworthy sensor systems to instigate further efforts for constructing amino acids sensor based on unconventional concepts.


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