For each barrel of natural gasoline condensate collected in storage, roughly 1,300,000 BTU’s worth of gas is flashed-off from the low pressure three phase separator.…
Category: Wellhead Surface Equipment
Permitting a wellhead meter to read high robs your employer. The royalty and severance tax payments made by the lease operator are based on the…
If the interface level controller on the low pressure, three phase separator malfunctions, a well’s entire production of natural gasoline may wind up in an…
Maintaining the low pressure separator at too high a pressure can cause the natural gasoline condensate holding tank to over-pressure. As a rough approximation, about…
The high pressure liquid flows into the low pressure separator. Typically the low pressure vessel operates at 30 to 60 psig. Below 20 psig, there…
To prevent metering difficulties, and to reduce corrosion and pressure drop in downstream piping, liquids are removed from wellhead gas. Water plus natural gasoline condensate…
Why are there two chokes shown in figure 3—2. Certainly, gas flow could be controlled with a single choke. One reason is that the erosion…
Ideally, there should not be any gas accumulation inside the casing of a single completion well. If gas does infiltrate the annular space between the…
My initial impression of the collection of valves sitting atop a gas well was that the assemblage of hardware was unnecessarily complex. This turns out…