The Comprehensive course on Production Operations: Module 1

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will learn:

• Wellhead equipment & flow control devices
• Wellhead heaters
• Safety valves: types and operation
• Effect of drawdown on water and oil ratio
• Flowing well performance
• Well stimulation
• Well acidizing treatment

Target Audience

• Petroleum engineers
• Production engineers
• Project engineers
• Field Operators
• Chemical engineers
• Production facilities supervisors

Production Operations Outline

The course covers the following topics:

Completing a well and bringing it into production

• Well activation
• Swabbing
• Substitution of lighter fluids for heavier fluids
• Inflow stimulation by compressed gas or air
• Completion of water injection wells.

Wellhead equipment and flow control devices

• Casing hangers
• Heads
• Tubing hangers
• Wellhead heaters

Subsurface production equipment

• Tubing and production packers
• Bridge plugs and tubing anchors
• Standing valves (screen and slotted liners)
• Bottom hole chokes
• Safety valves: types and operation.

Performance of productive formations

• The radial flow of fluids
• Drawdown and productivity index
• Specific productivity index
• Inflow performance relationship (IPR)
• The importance of IPR
• The shape of IPR and effect of drawdown on the gas-oil ratio (GOR)
• Single zone of constant permeability and stratified formations
• Productivity index history and GOR history
• Effect of drawdown on water/oil ratio
• Water cut history

Flowing well performance

• Determination of inflow performance
• Vertical lift performance- flow regimes in vertical two-phase flow
• Pressure distribution curves,
• Stable and unstable flowing conditions, bean performance,
• Effect of bean changes
• Production optimization by NODAL analysis

Well stimulation

• Well acidizing treatment
• Hydraulic formation fracturing
• Thermal stimulation
• Surfactant treatment
• High energy gas stimulation (HEGS)
• Propellant stimulation

Artificial lift system

• Concept of artificial lift
• Various modes of lift
• Multiphase flow and IPR generation
• Sucker Rod Pumps
• Gas lift- complications of the gas lift well operation and complication control
• Increasing gas lift efficiency
• Optimization of gas lifts performances
• Jet pumps, troubleshooting
• Analysis of pumping unit operation from dynamometer cards

Work over and well-servicing operation

• Through tubing work over
• Coil tubing operation
• Downhole tools
• Bottom hole recording
• Wireline operation
• Fishing operation
• Cost consciousness, preventing, formation, damage, and conclusive testing
• Emerging technology induction