The document discusses the key components of an oil and gas production system, including the reservoir, wellbore, tubular goods and surface equipment, and artificial lift equipment if needed. It explains that the reservoir supplies the fluids and primary energy, while the wellbore allows access from the surface. Tubular goods and surface equipment control and process the fluids. Artificial lift equipment can enhance production by adding energy when the reservoir cannot produce at economic rates on its own. Understanding how all these components interact is important for optimizing well and reservoir performance over the life of the field.
The document discusses the key components of an oil and gas production system, including the reservoir, wellbore, tubular goods and surface equipment, and artificial lift equipment if needed. It explains that the reservoir supplies the fluids and primary energy, while the wellbore allows access from the surface. Tubular goods and surface equipment control and process the fluids. Artificial lift equipment can enhance production by adding energy when the reservoir cannot produce at economic rates on its own. Understanding how all these components interact is important for optimizing well and reservoir performance over the life of the field.
The document discusses the key components of an oil and gas production system, including the reservoir, wellbore, tubular goods and surface equipment, and artificial lift equipment if needed. It explains that the reservoir supplies the fluids and primary energy, while the wellbore allows access from the surface. Tubular goods and surface equipment control and process the fluids. Artificial lift equipment can enhance production by adding energy when the reservoir cannot produce at economic rates on its own. Understanding how all these components interact is important for optimizing well and reservoir performance over the life of the field.
1.1 The Production System Understanding the principles of fluid flow through the production system is important in esti- mating the performance of individual wells and optimizing well and reservoir productivity. In the most general sense, the production system is the system that transports reservoir fluids from the subsurface reservoir to the surface, processes and treats the fluids, and prepares the fluids for storage and transfer to a purchaser. Fig. 1.1 depicts the production system for a sin- gle well system. The basic elements of the production system include the reservoir; wellbore; tubular goods and associated equipment; surface wellhead, flowlines, and processing equip- ment; and artificial lift equipment. The reservoir is the source of fluids for the production system. It is the porous, permeable media in which the reservoir fluids are stored and through which the fluids will flow to the wellbore. It also furnishes the primary energy for the production system. The wellbore serves as the conduit for access to the reservoir from the surface. It is composed of the drilled well- bore, which normally has been cemented and cased. The cased wellbore houses the tubing and associated subsurface production equipment, such as packers. The tubing serves as the primary conduit for fluid flow from the reservoir to the surface, although fluids also may be transported through the tubing-casing annulus. The wellhead, flowlines, and processing equipment represent the surface mechanical equip- ment required to control and process reservoir fluids at the surface and prepare them for transfer to a purchaser. Surface mechanical equipment includes the wellhead equipment and associated valving, chokes, manifolds, flowlines, separators, treatment equipment, metering de- vices, and storage vessels. In many cases, the reservoir is unable to furnish sufficient energy to produce fluids to the surface at economic rates throughout the life of the reservoir. When this occurs, artificial lift equipment is used to enhance production rates by adding energy to the production system. This component of the system is composed of both surface and subsurface elements. This additional energy can be furnished directly to the fluid through subsurface pumps, by reducing the back- pressure at the reservoir with surface compression equipment to lower wellhead pressure, or by injecting gas into the production string to reduce the flowing gradient of the fluid. Recognizing the various components of the production system and understanding their inter- action generally leads to improved well productivity through analysis of the entire system. As
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