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Gas Lift Setup reports are intended to be a formal documents, customized by each Gas Lift user to simplify the process of providing valve running details to the field.

This 4 page report consists of:

1.	a design plot,

2.	a standard SNAP one page design report (not including warnings or errors),

3.	a slickline procedure for running the valves and the data used to generate the design,

4.	a Recommended Unloading procedure using values specific to the well and some values that are embedded in the GLVSETUPTEMPLATE.RTF file.

Below is a sample report:

Gas Lift Design Plot For Setup report

Page 1

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Engineer : Nations

Dataset : DBimporttemplate2019.snp

Title : BaseTemplate Gas Lift Well

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Important Note: Review page 3 of this report for actual and potential problems.

Nations Solution Rate: 787 stbf/ Pvc Bottom Bellows: 1148

GL Design Press: 1340 Solution fbhp: 2121 psia Operating Pressure: 1340

Wellhead Pressure: 150 Flwg Wh Temp (Twh): 99 Casing DP: 384

SNAP IPR function Top Valve Flwg Temp: 110 Orifice DP: N/A

Static BHP(Pws): 4100 Static BH Temp: 146 KO Gas Gradient : 0.0466

SNAP 2.699 11/11/2019 Tubing Size: 1.875 Operating Gas Grd: 0.0454

11/12/19 07:49:16 Design GL Rate: 1013 Watercut: 78.8 %

Model: HagedornBrown Unloading Gradient: 0.450 Formation GOR: 1280

Design QO: 167 stbf/d Design QW: 620 stbf/d Design QFmGas: 214 mscf/d

Rn Sta Depth Depth Valve Valve Valve Port Valve Valve Flwg

Or # TVD MD OD Type Model Size Ap/Ab Ppef Tmp

10 1 1752 1753 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 110

9 2 2674 2675 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 117

8 3 3563 3564 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 123

7 4 4353 4354 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 127

6 5 5144 5145 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 132

5 6 5864 5865 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 136

4 7 6556 6557 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 139

3 8 7151 7152 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 142

2 9 7773 7776 1.0 Bellows Wfd_R-1 0.1875 0.7000 0.1038 144

1 10 8232 8240 1.0 Orifice Wfd_RDDK-1 0.2500 0.0000 0.0000 145

Rn Sta Ppd Pwf Qliq* TGLR Qgi(req) Qgi(VPC) Qgi(ThH) Qgi(Wnk) Ptro60 Ptro

Or # Prs psia stbf/d scf/b mscf mscf mscf mscf calc Instld

10 1 302 3870 200 200 -14 1287 982 1118 1379 1145

9 2 390 3493 271 200 -19 1287 986 1120 1389 1135

8 3 480 3153 419 200 -30 1246 961 1090 1394 1125

7 4 559 2812 554 200 -40 1250 966 1094 1400 1115

6 5 655 2121 787 1557 1012 1329 990 1105 1403 1105

5 6 863 2218 758 200 -54 1202 934 1057 1405 1095

4 7 1089 1949 837 200 -60 1148 893 1013 1409 1090

3 8 1304 1682 906 200 -65 1164 906 1026 1409 1080

2 9 1555 1519 945 200 -67 1056 824 936 1412 1075

1 10 1749 2121 787 3212 3005 0 0 0

Rn Sta Pgd GLD GLD GLD Pvc Ppd-Pmin

Or # Prs Piod Pvcd PpTran Ct Pio Psc DP psia

10 1 1422 1422 1383 1013 0.903 1344 1308 20 711

9 2 1465 1450 1412 1049 0.891 1325 1288 20 660

8 3 1506 1467 1434 1111 0.881 1301 1268 20 631

7 4 1543 1484 1451 1127 0.874 1281 1248 20 568

6 5 1580 1498 1468 1173 0.866 1258 1228 20 518

5 6 1613 1511 1481 1197 0.860 1237 1208 20 334

4 7 1646 1519 1493 1249 0.855 1213 1188 20 160

3 8 1673 1528 1501 1246 0.850 1194 1168 20 -58

2 9 1702 1530 1510 1320 0.847 1167 1148 20 -235

1 10 1724 1380 -628

Slick Line Procedure

Run the following gas lift design based on the HagedornBrown hydraulic correlation, 788 BLPD, 79% Water Cut, 1013 Mscfd lift gas, 1280 FGOR, kickoff pressure of 1340.0 psi, and Wfd_R-1 valves.

Surf. Surf. TRO

MD Valve Valve Port Open Close Press

GLM (RKB) Size Name Size Press Press 60° F

1 1753 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1344 1308 1379

2 2675 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1325 1288 1389

3 3564 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1301 1268 1394

4 4354 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1281 1248 1400

5 5145 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1258 1228 1403

6 5865 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1237 1208 1405

7 6557 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1213 1188 1409

8 7152 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1194 1168 1409

9 7776 1" Wfd_R-1 3/16" 1167 1148 1412

10 8240 1" Wfd_RDDK-1 1/4" ------ Orifice ------

Recommended Unloading Procedure

1)	Slowly work the production choke open to reduce the tubing pressure to common line pressure.

2)	Start lift gas injection at 50-150 Mscfd.

3)	Monitor the casing annulus pressure to target a 50-100 psi increase every 30 minutes (50-100 psi/30 min)

4)	Increase lift gas injection to a maximum of 200 Mscfd.

5)	At 200 Mscfd the calculated time to drop the annulus fluid level to the 1st gas lift valve is 2.8 hrs.

6)	After unloading to the 1st gas lift valve, increase the gas lift rate to 2/3 of the design rate. (2/3) ( 1013 Mscfd) = 675 Mscfd.

7)	The annulus fluid level will drop past each unloading valve and stabilize lift gas injection at the orifice within 12-18 hours depending on the number of valves.

8)	Check that the annulus casing pressure is less than the closing pressure of the bottom gas lift valve = 1248 psig.

9)	Increase the lift gas rate to the design rate of 1013 Mscfd.

10)	The stabilized operating annulus casing pressure is 1340 psig.

11)	Contact Tom Nations at tom@nationsconsultinginc.com (281) 301-9999

✍	For any questions or issues with unloading the well.

✍	If the operating annulus casing pressure is 150 psi above or below design.