Gas-lift (GL) operational inefficiencies are responsible for up to 5% of production shortfall in a typical oil well. A key difficulty is that surveillance, intervention, and optimization activities ...

Technological advancements in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing have led to an abundance of natural gas production in the United States that is fundamentally changing the energy landscape.

A novel approach using computational fluid dynamics techniques provides a way for determining the characteristics of gas passing through a gas-lift valve. In the method, CFD calculations numerically ...