Abstract
Gas-lift is major form of artificial lift. Many companies use it to produce large quantities of oil. It is being used more and more to assist in production of gas wells.
Starting in 1979, a group of people from the gas-lift industry came together under the auspices of the American Petroleum Institute (API) to develop specifications and recommended practices for gas-lift. To date, one specification and five recommended practices have been developed and two new ones are underway. These are:
Existing documents
– API Specification 11V1 – Gas lift valves, orifices, dummies
– API Recommended Practice (RP) 11V2 – Gas lift valve testing, modeling
– API RP 11V5 – Gas lift operations (revision in progress)
– API RP 11V6 – Gas lift design
– API RP 11V7 – Gas lift valve reconditioning
– API RP 11V8 – Gas lift systems
Documents under development
– API RP 11V9 – Dual gas lift
− API RP 11V10 – Intermittent gas lift
This presentation will highlight the purpose of each of these documents and how they can be obtained and used to facilitate training and best practices in oil and gas production companies.
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