By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Apply proven techniques to field problems which increase profitability
• Calculating gas well performance, from the reservoir to the sales line
• Optimize gas well production
• Relate reservoir and well performance to time
• Predict when a well will die due to liquid loading

Production, reservoir, and facilities engineers and others involved in gas production, transportation, and storage including field supervisors.

Gas Properties

• Real gas behavior equations of state
• Impurities
• Mixtures
• Phase behavior dew point
• Retrograde behavior
• Flash calculations
• Classifying gas reservoirs

Reservoir Performance

• Gas well testing flow after flow
• Isochronal
• Stabilized inflow performance
• Turbulence and skin effects
• Perforation effects
• Tight well analysis
• Horizontal wells
• Hydraulically fractured wells

Reserve Calculations

• Plots
• Energy plots
• Water influx
• Abnormal pressure effects
• Diagnostic testing based on production data

Flow in Pipes and Restrictions

• Pressure loss tubing
• Flow lines
• Chokes
• Safety valves
• Effects of liquids-liquid loading
• Liquid removal methods
• Multiphase flow correlations
• Erosional velocity

Compression

• Types of compressors
• Compressor selection reciprocating and centrifugal
• Effects of variables
• Capacity and horsepower

Total System Analysis

• Tubing and flowline size effects
• Perforating effects
• Relating deliverability to time
• Evaluating compressor installations
• Analyzing injection wells

Flow Measuring

• Orifice metering design
• Accuracy
• Troubleshooting
• Other metering methods

Condensate Reservoir

• Reservoir types, wet gas
• Retrograde
• Reserve estimates
• Laboratory simulation
• Gas cycling

Field Operations Problems

• Interpreting P/Z plots
• Hydrate formation

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.