... Abstract The distance to the fluid level provides beneficial information throughout the life of a gas-lift well. From the initial unloading of the well, to maintaining production, and even into troubleshooting the well, the location of the fluid level plays a crucial role in understanding...

.../fines over perforations 4. High fluid level in well Subsurface Equipment Failure 1. Pump wear 2. Pump and tubing leaks 3. Sucker rod parts (breaks) 4. Poor volumetric efficiency due to gas 5. Fluid influx from casing leak or poor cementing Surface Equipment Failures 1...

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... two faults to increase and maintain reservoir pressures to prevent steam chest collapse and surface subsidence 1 . Well UP-957 produced at a peak initial oil rate of 249 BOPD and 723 barrels of gross fluid at a wellhead temperature of 197°F and a pumping fluid level of 2122 ft over the mid...

... Abstract When a well that has been producing a mixture of oil, water and gas is shut-in for an extended period of time, the fluid columns expand or contract in response to the temperature changes in the well. These changes in fluid levels in turn, affect the heat transfer in and around...

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... information regarding provides useful information regarding reservoir and completion characteristics. The equipment used was developed for performing SCPBU's in rod-pumped wells by performing SCPBU's in rod-pumped wells by monitoring the casing pressure and fluid level. However, with minor adaptations...

... are calculated with consideration given to cumulative effects of changing temperature, fluid levels, relative permeability, fluid viscosities, and fluid saturations. permeability, fluid viscosities, and fluid saturations. A comparison of calculated performance with field results of seven consecutive steam cycles...

... the geometry of the coning problem. In this paper the zero point for all measurements is the center of the well at the top of the formation, positive measurements downward. Thus the penetration of the well is H, the oil zone thickness is· He, and the static fluid level is-Hle' The well is pumped at an oil rate...

... ownership by the ,individual or company Which presented the papers must be given. Discussion of this paper at the meeting is invited. Written discussions for publication should be sent to the Society of Petroleum Engineers office. ABSTRACT An instrument is described Which will regulate the fluid level...