Multiphase boosting technology can provide a cost-effective option for developing remote and marginal oil field discoveries, by reviving dead oil wells and increasing the production from active wells. The implementation of the multiphase technology at the remote field is a new strategy to obtain increased production and flow assurance from the operator.

This paper describes the implementation of a rotodynamic (helicon-axial) multiphase pumping (MPP) system at a remote, hilly-terrain onshore oil field in Saudi Arabia. The process conditions, the MPP package scope of supply, the MPP installation setup and operation will be discussed in detail.

Keywords:
production monitoring, artificial lift system, production control, multiphase pump, production logging, Upstream Oil & Gas, flow rate, mpp application, objective, Reservoir Surveillance
Subjects:
Artificial Lift Systems, Well & Reservoir Surveillance and Monitoring, Processing Systems and Design, Pipelines, Flowlines and Risers, Hydraulic and jet pumps, Production logging, Downhole and wellsite flow metering, Separation and treating
Copyright 2008, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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