Abstract: The oil and gas industry is in need of more practical approach to support the understanding of liquid loading in gas wells in order to aid in the monitoring and solutions to the challenges posed by liquid loading in gas wells. In this paper, a practical facility ‘’UAC Excellence flow loop’’ for liquid loading experiment has been built, and used to study liquid loading concept on 0.37 inch tubing (Figure 1). Three stages of flow regimes have been achieved after 900 seconds of production of multiphase fluids (LPG and Water) (Figure 2). It was observed that downhole temperature is a critical factor to gas well loading. Liquid loading affect gas well pressure quicker at the onset, but gradually affect production rate (Figure 3). Annular flow was obtained at 300 seconds (Figure 5), mist flow at 600 seconds (Figure 6) and Slug flow at 900 seconds (Figure 7).The UAC Excellence flow loop, the first in Nigeria, will serve as practical equipment for the study of liquid loading in smaller diameter tubings
Keywords: Liquid loading, Tubing, UAC Excellence Flow loop, Downhole.
Title: INVESTIGATION OF LIQUID LOADING CONCEPT IN 0.37 INCH TUBING USING UAC EXCELLENCE FLOW LOOP
Author: Udoaka, Mfon Godwill, Dulu, Appah, Joseph, Amiebimbama
International Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews
ISSN 2348-697X (Online)
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