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Gas Lift Rate

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN
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Gas Lift Rate

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN

The equal slope uses the slope of the performance curve at constant wellhead pressure.
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Solution

Gas Lift Rate

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN

Basically the system will iterate and give different WHP depending of the response of
the system, but then the allocation is based on the resulting constant WHP.
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Gas Lift Rate

Pfriction

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN
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Gas Lift Rate

Pfriction

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN
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Network Response

Gas Lift Rate

Pfriction

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN

Considering the actual response of the system, the slope needs to be corrected .
This correction takes in to account the effect of the complete system
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Q Linear Programming
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Response LP - SQP
SLP

Q Gas Inj Gas Lift Rate

Pfriction

INJECTION GAS
CHOKE OPEN

If the system has a heavy pressure drop the slopes are all wrong and then the system
will not be optimise. It will have a tendency to over predict the gas requirement and
reduce production