The advantages of Gas Lift
In a world with a growing need for artificial lift, Gas Lift offers a lot of flexibility and advantages. Indeed Gas Lift:
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- Is compatible with downhole safety barriers
- Can handle large range of API
- Has high gas oil ratio tolerance
- Has no limit on liquid rate
- Has no well depth limit
- Can handle harsh conditions like sand, H2S or scale
- Allows to use one completion for more than one decade
Why Gas Lift wells are usually sub-optimized?
But all these advantages come with a major drawback. Gas Lift wells often get neglected once production starts. It is very common for a Gas Lift well to be sub-optimized and therefore to produce below its full potential for years. This leads to a massive loss of reserves for the operators who often don’t even realize it.
How to unlock the production of Gas Lift wells?
Hence, a big potential for low investment, fast payback production increase, and reserves development lies with the optimization of Gas Lift wells. Many technical solutions have been developed over the years to achieve that target. Yet the most efficient and cheapest one remains to acquire the knowledge to properly monitor, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot Gas Lift wells. In this area of oil production like in many, staff training is the starting point to achieve profit growth.
