T02: Tight Gas Well Deliquification
Instructor:
Dennis Hahn, P.Eng., Completions & Production Specialist, RPS Energy Canada Ltd.
Who should attend:
Production, operations and completions engineers and engineering technologists. Also suitable for field staff and operations managers.
Tutorial Description:
This tutorial will place an emphasis on deeper, tight gas wells by applying basic principles and considerations for effective gas well de-liquification. It will also provide some guidelines for identifying liquid loading, as well as best practices in applying liquid removal techniques including actual well examples. The content of this tutorial will incorporate experience and learning from various projects and applications, primarily in North America. The tutorial is suitable for technical staff with a basic understanding of Well Completions and Well Performance Predictions who want to gain a more detailed understanding of the issues involved in optimizing gas well production and the techniques available for effective de-liquification.
Instructor Biography:
Dennis Hahn, P.Eng., is a Completions & Production Specialist with RPS Energy Canada Ltd.. He has over 30 years of completion and production engineering experience working for major operators in Canada and overseas. He has extensive knowledge in complex and HPHT completion design, well test design and supervision, fracture stimulation, artificial lift design and operations, as well as widespread experience with the optimization of gas wells, gas compression, gas gathering systems, oilfield operations and waterfloods. In conjunction with seven Operating Companies, he was the primary project engineer on a recent Joint Industry Project that studied the specific issues and requirements to effectively remove liquids from deeper low rate gas wells (“Dewatering Deep Low Rate Gas Wells”). Additionally, he has written numerous technical papers on production optimization and HPHT well completions.
