Uma proposta para o controle automático da repartida de poços operando por gas lift contínuo

AUTOR(ES)

Carlos Alberto Cavichioli Gonzaga

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The gas-lift wells restart process has high complexity. If the procedure is not carefully executed, the production liquid flowrate can show an oscillatory behaviour, called #severe slugs#. This situation is undesirable because it causes productivity loss, decreases oil-watergas separation process performance or can lead to the shutdown of the system. Nowadays at the production fields, the restart process is still performed manually, following a conservative way and based on the human operator knowledge. The main objective relies on supressing the liquid slug until the system reaches its production operation point. However, the process efficiency and variability have high level dependence of the human operator. In this work, an analysis of the process is presented in order to better understand the behaviour of the main process variables. Moreover, a process automation is proposed in order to execute a well-behaved restart. Two free model strategies are presented, using the downhole pressure measurement as controlled variable and the choke openning as manipulated variable. The first strategy is based on the steady-state curve which gives the downhole pressure as function of the injection gas flowrate. This pressure defines the liquid flowing from the well into the tubing bottom. The strategy tries to mantain the downhole pressure close to its steadystate value depending on the gas flowrate being injected into the well, and thus, indirectly regulating the liquid flowrate at the tubing bottom. The downhole pressure setpoint is calculated through an estimaton algorithm considering the gas flowrate as input. A control loop is designed using a switching PI controller. The second strategy relies on a fuzzy logic control system. The controller is designed trying to retract the action sequence of the manually execution. The two proposed strategies are tested using an experimentally validated model implemented in the OLGA2000 simulator of ScandpowerPT. Simulations results show that both techniques provide an adequate restart process avoiding the #severe slugs.

ASSUNTO(S)

engenharia de sistemas oil wells - gas-lift controle automatico poços de petróleo - gas-lift engenharias

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