ARTIFICIAL LIFT: ESP WELL ON BRN FIELD (CASE STUDY OF SFNE 13 OIL WELL)

Abstract

Artificial lifting of wells is something that will become the most important in the coming years. A large part of fields in the world are going into their late life production, BRN field is a mature field, in which the water’s production is increasing and the reservoir’s pressure is decreasing. To increase the production and extend the lifetime of the field, the operator company has used the Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESPs) to assist struggling wells. The first part of the thesis describes the basics of each artificial lift method and its advantage /disadvantage, and the criterions to choose between the different methods, the second part give general detailed about ESP, and the final part is dedicated to the case study of design and the performance evaluation of ESP on oil well suffering from high WC and high salinity using nodal analysis software (Prosper), finally this work is completed by mentioning some problems related to ESP wells on BRN field.