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RealTimeCalculationofFluidLevelUsing
DynamometerCardofSuckerRodPump Lookingformore?
Well
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developedsubject
Authors HaitaoYang(ChangqingOilfieldCo., specificwikisthatmay
PetroChina)|LijunMu(ChangqingOilfield help.
Co.,PetroChina)|YaqinZeng(Changqing

OilfieldCo.,PetroChina)|WeiHuang
(ChangqingOilfieldCo.,PetroChina)|Hong
Xin(ChangqingOilfieldCo.,PetroChina)|
QingmingGan(ChangqingOilfieldCo.,
PetroWikiwasinitially
PetroChina)|MingLi(ChangqingOilfield
createdfromthe
Co.,PetroChina)|LeiZhang(Changqing sevenvolume
OilfieldCo.,PetroChina)|ErtaoHan Petroleum
(ChangqingOilfieldCo.,PetroChina) Engineering
Handbook(PEH)
DOI https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC17773MS
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Publisher InternationalPetroleumTechnology Engineers(SPE).
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Source InternationalPetroleumTechnology
Conference,1012December,KualaLumpur,
Malaysia

Publication 2014
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Thetraditionalmethodofmeasuringdynamicfluidlevel(DFL)isutilizing
theechometermanually,whichaddressesthefundamentaldrawbacksof
lackingthepromptnessandintensiveworkload.Realtimecalculation
(RTC)offluidlevelareachievedusinginstalledsensorsthat
simultaneouslytransmitacquireddata,withtheintervaloftenminutes,to
aofficeclientthatundertakesthegenerationandanalysisof
dynamometercards.

ThispaperproposesanewmethodtocalculatetheDFL.Ittakesthe
submergedpressureasacommonsolutionnodetoanalyzeboththe
plungerloadvariationwhichiscontributedbypumpdynamometerand
thepressuredistributionintheannulus.Additionally,anapproachto
determinethedensityoffluidwithinthetube,accordingtothefigures,
suchasmaximum,minimumloadofPRdynamometercard,therod
stringcombinationandetc,hasbeenestablishedinordertoanalyzethe
fluidlevelaccurately.Basingonthetheoryaforementioned,relyingonthe
platformofDigitizedProductionManagement,miningandintegratingthe
availabledata,thesystemofmonitoringthefluidlevelconstantlyhas
beendeveloped.

Consideringthefluidlevelcalculatedbythedownholepressureasa
standard,theresultsofmorethan80wells'computationrevealthatthe
relativeerrorofacousticfluidlevelsurveyisupto10.44%,however,the
DynamometerCardMethodismerely4.84%.Obviously,thelatter
improvestheaccuracyandreliabilityofthefluidleveltestandreduces
significantlytheworkloadofproductiontechnicians.Meanwhile,the
recommendationsforoptimizationofthewellperformancecanbeissued
immediately.Casestudiesarepresentedshowinganalysisonavarietyof
wells.

Introduction

Dynamicfluidlevel,notonlythesignificantindexofrevealingtheabilityof
supplementinformation,butalsotheimportantdataindynamicanalysis
ofoilproduction,isutilizedtoadjustthewellsystem,estimatethe
reservoirpressure,affiliateddeterminationofwellperformance[1].

Atpresent,numeroustechniqueshavebeendevelopedtomeasurethe
fluidlevel,amongwhichtheechometer(acoustic)methodisthesimple
andwidelyusedone.However,inpractice,itisdifficulttodependonthis
techniquemeasuringtherealtimefluidlevelbecausethehighcostofair
gunanditslifeexpectancyisshort.Inadditiontotheacousticmethod,
thefluidlevelcanalsobeobtainedbymeasuringtherelationship
betweenthecasingpressureandtimewhenthecasinggasisventedinto
theair.Nevertheless,thisapproachislimitedbythegasvolumeinthe
annulus[2].

Thesurfacedynamometercardrepresentsthepolishrodloadversusits
position,whichisusuallymeasuredbyusingadynamometer.Proper
analysisofthedynamometercardusuallycanbeusedtorevealthe
followingresults:thepolishrodloadateachpointinthestrokecycle
minimumandmaximumloadsandstresseswhetherthedownholepump
valvesareleakingandtheextentofleakingandtheoverallperformance
ofthedownholepump[13].Since2008,withthedevelopmentofthe
automaticmonitoringsystem,whichiscalledtheplatformofDigitized
ProductionManagementinChangiqngOilfield,thesurfacedynamometer
cardcanbetransmittedtotheofficeclientbyawirelessreceiverorvia
WLANwiththeintervaloftenminutes.Morespecifically,theintelligent
clienttransformseachsurfacedynamometercardintothecorresponding
pumpdynamometercard,whichismuchmoreusefulthanthesurface
cardbecausethelatterrevealstheloadandpositionatthepump.To
determinetheconditionofthepump,thecalculateddownholecardis
comparedwiththousandsofcardswithknownpumpconditionsusing
patternrecognitiontechniques.Thepumpconditionsthesystemdetects
arefull,incompletepump,fluidpound,gasinterference,standingvalve
leak,travelingvalveleak,wornpump,andparaffin.

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