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Factors Influencing Production Operations

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This chapter is concerned with providing a brief introduction to the principal elements of production systems. The total field of production engineering is very much wider than the subject matter of this chapter and can comprise:

  1. (a)

    Reservoir performance Completion intervals, perforations performance, completion practices, completion equipment;

  2. (b)

    Well equipment Stress analysis for tubulars and packers, corrosion/erosion considerations, tubular selection, packer selection, wellhead selections, safety valves, wireline services/ facilities;

  3. (c)

    Well performance analysis Natural flow performance, artificial lift requirements, performance analysis, prediction;

  4. (d)

    Stimulation and remedial operations Acidization, fracturing, recompletions re-drilling, remedial acceleration. Fig. 13.1 shows a jack-up rig used for a workover at a remote jacket.

  5. (e)

    Oil and gas processing Separation, sweetening, dehydration;

  6. (f)

    Produced water and injection water treatment.

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Archer, J.S., Wall, C.G. (1986). Factors Influencing Production Operations. In: Petroleum Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9601-0_13

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