ARTIFICIAL LIFT MONITORING & OPTIMISATION
OVERVIEW
Artificial Lift Systems (ALS) need to be actively managed to optimise performance and ensure that they are delivering a positive return on investment through a production increase over a given period of time. Monitoring of real-time reservoir pressure ensures that systems are run at their optimal efficiency, extending maintenance intervals.
Acoustic Data’s SonicGauge™ Wireless Monitoring System offers a downhole solution that allows engineers to observe ALS operating efficiency in real time. ALS operating parameters can then be adjusted in a timely manner, increasing technical efficiency and production, and protecting the system from running at an undesirable operating point that could lead to damage or reduction of run life.
The cable-less SonicGauge can be quickly installed offline before the production tubing is run-in-hole. It does not require wellhead penetration or packer pass throughs and does not require the well to be killed when the tubing is pulled during workovers.
Prior to installation of an ALS system, downhole monitoring with the SonicGauge permits the operator to select the proper ALS for a given case and to operate it under optimal technical parameters.
