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Gas Lift - An Artificial Lift Technology

Conference Paper · December 2012

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 Proceedings of 65th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
CHEMCON - 2012
International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Energy and Environment in Process Industries
and Indo-US Joint International Conference on Energy and Environment

P-506
Gas Lift - An Artificial Lift Technology
Purva Goel1 and Utkarsh Maheshwari*2
1
Student,2Lecturer,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani-333 031, Rajasthan, India.
*Corresponding author email: utkarsh@bits-pilani.ac.in
Abstract
Due to difficult conditions of oil production, a necessity of implementing new technology has been analyzed for enhanced oil
production. When the reservoir energy is too low for the well to flow, or the production rate desired is greater than the
reservoir energy can deliver, it becomes necessary to put the well on some form of artificial lift to provide the energy to bring
the fluid to the surface. The gas lift technology is one of the artificial lift techniques which provide lifting solutions. When gas
lift is used, high-pressure gas provides the energy to enable the well to produce.
Gas lift is an artificial lift method whereby external gas is injected into the produced flow stream at some depth in the wellbore.
The additional gas augments the formation gas and reduces the flowing bottom hole pressure, thereby increasing the inflow of
produced fluids. The task of this paper is to provide understanding of gas lift systems.

Keywords: Artificial lift, Gas Lift, Bottom hole pressure, Well bore

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