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ESP System with Tapered Pump Eliminated Downtime

in Extremely High GOR Well
Location: China

Results
nnStabilized production performance
in well with high GOR
nnEliminated shutdowns
nnOperator saved more than USD
6 million with elimination of
workovers and downtime

Challenges
nnWell had a gas to oil ratio (GOR)
higher than 2,000 m3/m3 caused
by condensate gas stratum
For an operator in China’s South Sea, as an intake charge pump with a standard
extremely high gas to oil ratio (GOR) caused ESP pump, the design provided a stabilized nnThe operator’s well experienced
problems with an electrical submersible solution for gas-handling applications. Free continual gas locking with ESP
pumping (ESP) system. Challenges included gas and wellbore fluid were compressed into system
continual gas locking, frequent downtime, solution as it passed through the tapered nnGas locking led to frequent
and lost production. pump. A tandem high-efficiency vortex gas downtime and lost production
separator separated gas from the fluid before nnPlatform operated without
Condensate gas stratum offered exceptional going into the pump. personnel at well site
production challenges, especially when
nnWorkover costs were more than
attempting to size pumping equipment to This design virtually eliminated gas locking,
USD 1 million per well
handle both fluid phases. resulting in fewer shutdowns and higher
production of 90 m3/d from 20 m3/d with
The operator approached Baker Hughes for a high GOR of more than 2,000 m3/m3. Baker Hughes solution
an alternative artificial lift solution. Based After success with the first well, the operator nnBaker Hughes customized an ESP
on experience with these particular well changed all the existing ESP systems over to solution with a tapered pump and
conditions, Baker Hughes offered an ESP Baker Hughes equipment. tandem vortex gas separator
system with a tapered pump and a P6 SSD nnESP with tapered pump maintained
pump. By using an MVP™ multi-phase pump production despite more than
2,000m3/m3 GOR condition

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