Optimizing pump jack timer settings using detailed pressure monitoring data
Ryan Gordon
Abstract
To reduce power usage and wear and tear on pumping equipment, low producing wells are often placed on timers. This study demonstrates how timer settings can be rapidly and effectively optimized using detailed measurement of tubing pressure. Pressure monitoring devices, based on an internet of things (IoT) architecture, were installed on the flow-t of 24 pumping wells, gathered and stored per second pressure data, and used it to establish optimal timer settings.
Keywords: production control, pressure transient testing, completion monitoring systems/intelligent wells, drillstem testing, drillstem/well testing, timer, pressure change, production monitoring, internet of things, ropc
Subjects: Well & Reservoir Surveillance and Monitoring, Formation Evaluation & Management, Remote monitoring, Pressure transient analysis, Drillstem/well testing, Completion Monitoring Systems/Intelligent Wells, Well Monitoring Systems/Intelligent Wells
Paper presented at the SPE Canadian Energy Technology Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 2022.
Paper Number: SPE-208964-MS
https://doi.org/10.2118/208964-MS
Published: March 11 2022
Copyright 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers DOI 10.2118/208964-MS