Multiphase pumping: indoor performance test and oilfield application

Xiangling Kong; Hongwu Zhu; Shousen Zhang; Jifeng Li

doi:10.1117/12.851398

14 April 2010 Multiphase pumping: indoor performance test and oilfield application

Xiangling Kong, Hongwu Zhu, Shousen Zhang, Jifeng Li

Proceedings Volume 7522, Fourth International Conference on Experimental Mechanics; 75225T (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.851398
Event: Fourth International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, 2009, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

Multiphase pumping is essentially a means of adding energy to the unprocessed effluent which enables the liquid and gas mixture to be transported over a long distances without prior separation. A reduction, consolidation, or elimination of the production infrastructure, such as separation equipments and offshore platforms can be developed more economically. Also it successfully lowed the backpressure of wells, revived dead wells and improved the production and efficiency of oilfield. This paper reviews the issues related to indoor performance test and an oilfield application of the helico-axial multiphase pump designed by China University of Petroleum (Beijing). Pump specification and its hydraulic design are given. Results of performance testing under different condition, such as operational speed and gas volume fraction (GVF) etc are presented. Experimental studies on combination of theoretical analysis showed the multiphase pump satisfies the similitude rule, which can be used in the development of new MPP design and performance prediction. Test results showed that rising the rotation speed and suction pressure could better its performance, pressure boost improved, high efficiency zone expanding and the flow rate related to the optimum working condition increased. The pump worked unstable as GVF increased to a certain extent and slip occurred between two phases in the pump, creating surging and gas lock at a high GVF. A case of application in Nanyang oilfield is also studied.

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Xiangling Kong, Hongwu Zhu, Shousen Zhang, and Jifeng Li "Multiphase pumping: indoor performance test and oilfield application", Proc. SPIE 7522, Fourth International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, 75225T (14 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.851398

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