Gas Well

Performance
Submitted to:
Prof. Dr.: Khaled Abdel-Fattah
Prepared by:
Ahmed El-Sayed Mahmoud Khalil

Names of the group

1. Ahmed El-Sayed Mahmoud Khalil.
2. Ahmed Salah Sarhan.
3. Mahmoud Mohamed Nagaty.
4. Mostafa Salah Al-Masry.
5. El-Sayed Yousef Hassan Abou-Shahien.
6. Mihamed Bayoumi Shafik Bayoumi.

Contents
I.

Introduction.

II. Static bottom-hole pressure.

III. Flowing bottom-hole pressure.
IV. Multi-phase flow calculations.
V.

Inflow & Outflow performance

relationships.

VI. Conclusion.
VII. References.

I. Introduction
Growth of N.G demand and its
increasing economic importance.

I. Introduction
The parameters that must be
discussed when considering gas
wells performance:

Static
&
flowing
bottom-hole
pressures.
Inflow performance analysis.
Annular & pipeline flow.
Multi-phase flow considerations.
Gas well performance curves.

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

Bottom-hole pressure can be either
measured or calculated from wellhead
data, gas specific gravity, surface
pressure and temperature, formation
temperature and well depth, and its
often calculated from correlations.
The estimation of it from the surface
measurements
only
involves
the
addition of the weight exerted by the
gas column in the well .

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

Methods of calculating Pws:
1. Average

temperature and

factor method.
2. Sukkar and Cornell method.
3. Cullender and Smith method.

deviation

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

Average
temperature
deviation factor method:

and

The shown equation can

be used to calculate Pws
at average T & Z-factor.
Note: The solution of the above method is
calculated by trial and error as Pws is a function
of Tts, Tws, Pts & Pws by assuming a value of
Pws and calculating at average pressure and
temperature.

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

Sukkar and Cornell method:

The integral has been solved for various values

of pseudoreduced temperature and pressure and
factor B. The results are presented in tables one
of them is for low-pressure range of reduced
pressures or pressures from 600 psia to 3200
psia. And the other one is for the ranges above
2000 psia.

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

Sukkar and Cornell method:

II. Static Bottom-hole Pressure

Cullender and Smith method:

The Cullender and Smith

method which does not
Make any of the simplifying
assumptions of other
methods, is the most accurate
method for calculating Pws.

III. Flowing Bottom-hole Pressure

The flowing bottom-hole pressure of a
gas well is the sum of the flowing
wellhead
pressure,
the
pressure
exerted by the weight of the gas
column, the kinetic energy change and
the energy losses resulting from
friction.
Also the same models are modified for
calculating Pwf.

III. Flowing Bottom-hole Pressure

Average
temperature
deviation factor method:

and

. The shown equation can

be used to calculate Pwf.
. This equation can be
evaluated at one step
solution or multistep and the gas deviation
factor
can be obtained by iteration or by
estimation.

III. Flowing Bottom-hole Pressure

Sukkar and Cornell method:

The assumption of this method are:

1. Steady state flow.
2. Single phase flow.
3. Change in kinetic energy is very small and
can be neglected.
4. Temperature is constant at some average
value.
5. Friction is constant over the length of the
condoit.

III. Flowing Bottom-hole Pressure

Sukkar and Cornell method:

This method tabulated data for solving bottomhole pressure within the reduced values of
pressure and temperature within the ranges of
1.5 < Tpr < 1.7 & 1 < Ppr < 12.

III. Flowing Bottom-hole Pressure

Cullender and Smith method:

The Cullender and Smith method assumed the

following assumptions:
1. Steady state flow.
2. Single phase gas stream.
3. Change in kinetic energy is very small and
can be neglected.

III. Flowing Bottom-hole Pressure

Cullender and Smith method:

IV. Multi-phase Flow

Flow regimes:

If we have liquid produced

or multi-phase flow,
the best correlations
for two-phase vertical
flow are those of
Hagedorn and Brown
, Duns and Rros, Orkiszewski,
Beggs and Brill, and Govier and Aziz.

IV. Multi-phase Flow

Orkiszewiski Method:

IV. Multi-phase Flow

Orkiszewiski Method:

Bubble flow equations:

IV. Multi-phase Flow

Orkiszewiski Method:

Slug flow equations:

IV. Multi-phase Flow

Orkiszewiski Method:

Slug flow equations:

The wall friction term

in slug flow equation
can be calculated as:

V. Inflow & Outflow performance

Relationships

V. Inflow & Outflow performance

Relationships
Tubing performance curves:

VI. Conclusion
The worldwide demand on N.G lead to the
increase in developing the models for
analyzing the performance of gas wells.
Accuracy of each model depends on its basis
in the integration of the general vertical flow.
All these models in this presentation are
restricted to the vertical flow only and dont
consider any deviation in the well or horizontal
flow.

VII. References
Ikoku.

C.

U.,

Natural

gas

production

engineering.
American Petroleum Institute statistics 2012.