Petroleum and Production Engineers
• Production Technology Engineers
• Completion Engineers
• Reservoir Engineers
• Drilling Engineers
• Other Company engineers involved in subsurface production operations
• Managers and Government Officials and others involved with the production systems
• Supervisors, Field Operators and Technicians

The training instructor relies on a highly interactive training method to enhance the learning process.
The course material is rich with various training tools that ensure all participants gain a
complete understanding of all the topics covered. The training environment is highly
stimulating, challenging, and effective for all trainees to participate, share their thoughts, and
inquire about their in-house challenges.

Module One: Production System Analysis & Artificial Lifting Theory
• Reservoir drive mechanisms
• Produced fluids properties
• Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)
• Outflow Vertical Lift Performance (VLP)
• Multiphase flow and Multiphase flow correlations
• Pressure Losses in Wellbore
• Flow patterns and regimes
• System nodal analysis
• Selecting the appropriate artificial lift strategy
• Gas lift concept and importance
Module Two: Introduction to Gas Lift Technology
• Historical development and evolution of gas lift technology
• Natural flow vs gas lift
• Applications of gas lift
• Types of Gas Lift
o Continuous gas flow
o Intermittent gas flow
• Main considerations surrounding gas lift systems
• Optimum GLR and injection depth
• Advantages and disadvantages
Module Three: Gas Lift Downhole Equipment
• Gas lift mandrels
• Gas Lift Valves and their components
• Kick-over Tool’s operations (installation and removal)
• Surface Flow Control Equipment
• Gas lift valve types (IPO and PPO valves)
• Criteria for selecting the appropriate gas lift valves
• Gas lift valve mechanics
• Force Balance Theory and equations
• Orifice gas lift valve behavior
Module Four: Gas Lift Systems Diagnosis, Practical Troubleshooting and Optimization
• Gas lift operations and monitoring
• Procedure for unloading a new well
• Gas lift diagnosis and troubleshooting
o Key concepts and procedure for analysis
o Identifying common problems and challenges
o Examples of automation charts
• Flowing gradient survey interpretation and matching
o Determination of injection depth, orifice pressure drop, etc.
• Dealing with problem wells (instability, slugging, multi-point injection etc.)
• Data analysis and data-driven optimization techniques
Module Five: Gas Lift Systems Design
• Factors influencing the design of gas lift systems
• Pressure gradient traverse plots and generation using multiphase flow correlations
• Gas lift unloading process and sequence and key factors to ensure success
• Gas lift design overview and principles
• Determining the optimal injection depth and gas injection rates
• Consideration of safety factors for mandrel spacing and valves operation
• Constant Casing Pressure Drop Method
• Bracketing
• Re-design of a gas lift valve setting for an existing well
Module Six: Well Modelling Using software
• Factors
• Gas Lift system design
• Well performance analysis and evaluation Gas Lift system optimization
• Perform nodal analysis using software
• Introduction to surface network
modelling
• Advances in gas lift valve technology
• Recap of key course concepts and learnings

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