Overview

ALUW stands for Artificial Lift for Unconventional Wells.

  About the Course

 This course covers artificial lift techniques and procedures for unconventional oil and gas producers as well as the service providers and contractors who support the sector. The emphasis of the course is on selecting, installing, and successfully using artificial lift to maximize value from upfront well planning through the end of life for unconventional wells. After completing this course, participants will be able to select and use artificial lift, as well as use best practices to address and minimize problems that typically arise throughout the life cycle of unconventional wells. The course's main goal is to maximize output and recovery by utilizing the best artificial lift technology, ideal surface pressure, and related amenities in a comprehensive manner. Participants will comprehend the procedures required to create a successful artificial lift strategy for wells unique to locations or plays.

 In order to choose and stage the right lift methods, this course combines real or realistic well/field data with around 50% teaching and 50% guided problem-solving. Individual and group tasks are included in the problem-solving sessions to provide each participant a chance to put the techniques, ideas, and practices covered during the course into practice. Additionally, each participant will be required to bring a problem they are currently having with artificial lift for unconventional wells, and they will present the problem on Day 2 and their solution on Day 5 based on what they have learned.

Target Audience

 Engineers in production and artificial lift are the target audience for this course. It will be helpful for engineers (working for operators, service providers, or as consultants) who may have knowledge of artificial lift for conventional wells or individual lift methods and want to increase their capacity to deliver more optimal holistic artificial lift solutions tailored to unconventional wells and the most recent techniques.

Course Objectives

 Participants will pick up skills in:

• Recognize the significance of choosing and settling on production optimization and artificial lift targets at an early stage of the well planning cycle.
• Determine the key distinctions between conventional and unconventional wells, as well as the criteria for adding artificial lift to each.
• Analyze the impact of the Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR) changing over time, and learn how to create and employ suitable PR curves successfully.
•  Recognize the advantages and difficulties of using systems Artificial lift using nodal analysis for unconventional wells
• Determine the advantages and disadvantages of the main artificial lifting techniques.
• Manage difficulties and problems when using an artificial lift and how to solve/mitigate them Choose a successful artificial lift technique for each unconventional resource well.
• Examine artificial lift staging over time to increase value. Recognize the significance of facilities and surface pressure Create a thorough lift strategy for a space, field, or play.

Course Outlines

•  Artificial lift goals, values, rates, and costs conventional and unconventional wells have different properties
• Using IPR curves and Nodal Analysis to Select Artificial Lift in Unconventional Wells choosing the ideal artificial lift technique, such as plunger lift, rod pumps, or other
• creating a thorough artificial lift strategy
•   Issues with Applications
• Using unusual well/field data, the course's practical application challenges will include the following:
•  Examine your options and choose the best artificial lift technique. Size and improve each main artificial lift technique
• Solve or choose a course of action for each participant's individual real-world situation. Determine a comprehensive plan to maximize the value of using artificial lift over the course of wells in a region, field, or play using the data provided.