Selection of Artificial Lift Method

Abstract

For most of producing oil and gas wells to be profitable over the long term, the appropriate artificial lift technique must be chosen. The present research examines the key selection criteria for the eight current primary artificial lift techniques and offers useful recommendations on the performance and applicability of the techniques based on real-world and tested technology. This paper discusses plunger lift, gas lift, hydraulic jet pumping, beam pumping, progressive cavity pumping, electric submersible pumping. The main goal of this study is to choose the best method, such as natural drive and artificial lift methods for accelerating and optimizing hydrocarbon production in the ARC oil field using the PROSPER software package and fictitious well data from Well WE1. The electrical submersible pump method is the subject of the nodal analysis for both natural drive cases and artificial lift techniques on PROSPER. Natural drive, ESP have calculated oil production rates of 57.2sm3 /day, 94.4 sm3 /day respectively. According to this study, using artificial lift techniques dramatically boosts oil production.