Procedure optimizes lift gas allocation

Oil and Gas Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 38-41

  Mayo, Orestes ^a,c,d,e   Blanco, Felix ^b,g,i,j   Alvarado, Javier ^b,f,g,h,i  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICO JOSÉ ANTONIO ECHEVERRÍA   (Cuba)

^b Maraven Petrol de Venezuela SA   (Venezuela)

^c Universidad de La   (Cuba)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Cuban Chemical Society   (Cuba)

^f Automation Department of Maraven   (Venezuela)

^g Universidad Nacional Experimental Politecnica Antonio Jose de Sucre   (Venezuela)

^h UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

ⁱ Instrumentation Society of America   (United States)

^j Maraven's Barua Motatan Oil Fld ^*  (Venezuela)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS;

COMPRESSORS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FUNCTIONS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS FIELDS; OIL FIELDS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PRODUCTIVITY;

GAS LIFTS;

EID: 0032629328     PISSN: 00301388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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