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    Pipesim Gas Lift

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    Anthony Bovell
    PIPESIM uses the IPO surface close method to calculate mandrel spacing and valve sizing for a gas lift design simulation. It performs calculations at each valve location to determine the gas rate, port size, opening pressure, dome pressure, closing pressure, and spread. Key steps include locating the top valve using an unloading gradient line, then calculating pressures and spacing additional valves using parallel lines that maintain a fixed surface closing pressure drop between valves.

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    Pipesim Gas Lift

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    Anthony Bovell
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    PIPESIM uses the IPO surface close method to calculate mandrel spacing and valve sizing for a gas lift design simulation. It performs calculations at each valve location to determine the gas rate, port size, opening pressure, dome pressure, closing pressure, and spread. Key steps include locating the top valve using an unloading gradient line, then calculating pressures and spacing additional valves using parallel lines that maintain a fixed surface closing pressure drop between valves.

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    PIPESIM uses the IPO surface close method to calculate mandrel spacing and valve sizing for a gas lift design simulation. It performs calculations at each valve location to determine the gas rate, port size, opening pressure, dome pressure, closing pressure, and spread. Key steps include locating the top valve using an unloading gradient line, then calculating pressures and spacing additional valves using parallel lines that maintain a fixed surface closing pressure drop between valves.

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    Pipesim Gas Lift

    Uploaded by

    Anthony Bovell
    PIPESIM uses the IPO surface close method to calculate mandrel spacing and valve sizing for a gas lift design simulation. It performs calculations at each valve location to determine the gas rate, port size, opening pressure, dome pressure, closing pressure, and spread. Key steps include locating the top valve using an unloading gradient line, then calculating pressures and spacing additional valves using parallel lines that maintain a fixed surface closing pressure drop between valves.

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    IPO surface close

    When you enter data in the Gas lift design dialog box and run a gas lift design simulation
    using the IPO surface close method, PIPESIM calculates Mandrel spacing and valve sizing.
    The IPO surface close method uses a user-specified fixed surface close (injection) pressure
    drop between valves.

    PIPESIM performs the following steps.

    1. As the starting point for the spacing calculation, PIPESIM calculates the Deepest
    point of Injection (DIP) and gets results that it uses as the starting point for the
    spacing calculation.

    2. PIPESIM locates the top valve using an unloading gradient line from the wellhead to
    the point where the line meets the casing pressure line.
    3. PIPESIM reads the depth of valve 1 (the top valve).
    4. PIPESIM calculates the required gas to unload a section of the tubing above valve 1.
    5. Based on the calculated gas rate, PIPESIM computes the required port size using the
    Thornhill-Craver equation.

    6. PIPESIM performs the following pressure calculations at the top valve depth:
    o Opening pressure
    o Dome pressure
    o Closing pressure
    o Spread

    Note: The opening pressure for the top valve is equal to the casing pressure at the
    valve depth.

    7. PIPESIM draws a line parallel to the CHP line from the wellhead to the packer.

    This line passes through the closing pressure location for valve 1.

    8. PIPESIM locates the second valve based on the gradient line starting from the transfer
    point at the top valve depth underneath the CHP line within the Locating DP margin.
    9. PIPESIM draws a line parallel to the surface close location for valve 1 by using the
    known surface closing pressure DP (Surface Close DP).
    10. PIPESIM draws a line at the second valve depth that goes to the surface close
    pressure for valve 1.

    11. PIPESIM repeats spacing for other valves in the same way until the maximum depth
    is reached.
    Note: Maximum depth is determined by the deepest injection point computation
    performed at the starting point of the design.

    At each valve location, PIPESIM computes the gas rate to unload the section of the
    tubing above the valve, computes the port size using the Thornhill-Craver equation,
    and selects the valve from the gas lift valve DP in PIPESIM.

    12. After selecting each valve, the PIPESIM performs the following pressure
    computations at the valve depth:
    o Opening pressure
    o Dome pressure
    o Closing pressure
    o Spread

    Note:

    o While performing pressure calculations for the top valve, PIPESIM uses the
    known valve opening pressure to compute the remaining pressures.
    o For the remaining valves, PIPESIM uses the known closing pressure to
    calculate the dome and opening pressure at each valve depth.
    o For IPO surface close design, the surface closing pressure drops between
    valves are fixed according to the user-entered value in the gas lift design task
    (value entered in the Surface close DP field in the Design Bias group in the
    Gas lift design dialog box).

    For information on how PIPESIM calculates valve pressures, refer to Pressure computations
    for IPO valves.
    Related links:

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