Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoAMF_DISSERT.pdf: 1096063 bytes, checksum: 5fc2d5a69c06dbd0861b8cfebf12e262 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-10 / Petr?leo Brasileiro SA - PETROBRAS / This document proposes to describe a pilot plant for oil wells equipped with plunger lift. In addition to a small size (21,5 meters) and be on the surface, the plant s well has part of its structure in transparent acrylic, allowing easy visualization of phenomena inherent to the method. The rock formation where the well draws its pilot plant fluids (water and air) is simulated by a machine room where they are located the compressor and water pump for the production of air and water. To keep the flow of air and water with known and controlled values the lines that connect the machine room to the wellhole are equipped with flow sensors and valves. It s developed a supervisory system that allows the user a real-time monitoring of pressures and flow rates involved. From the supervisor is still allowed the user can choose how they will be controlled cycles of the process, whether by time, pressure or manually, and set the values of air flow to the water used in cycles. These values can be defined from a set point or from the percentage of valve opening. Results from tests performed on the plant using the most common forms of control by time and pressure in the coating are showed. Finally, they are confronted with results generated by a simulator configured with the the pilot plant s feature / Este trabalho se prop?e a descrever uma Planta Piloto para po?os de petr?leo equipados com eleva??o artificial do tipo plunger lift. Al?m de um tamanho reduzido (21,5 metros) e estar sobre a superf?cie, o po?o da planta possui parte de sua estrutura em acr?lico transparente, permitindo a f?cil visualiza??o de fen?menos inerentes ao m?todo. A forma??o rochosa donde o po?o da Planta Piloto extrai seus fluidos (?gua e ar) ? simulada por uma casa de m?quinas onde est?o localizados o compressor e a bomba centr?fuga respons?veis pela produ??o de ar e ?gua. Para manter as vaz?es desses fluidos com valores conhecidos e controlados as linhas que conectam a casa de m?quina ao fundo do po?o s?o equipadas com sensores de vaz?o e v?lvulas. ? desenvolvido um sistema supervis?rio que permite ao usu?rio uma monitora??o em tempo real das press?es e vaz?es envolvidas no processo. A partir do supervis?rio ? poss?vel ainda o usu?rio escolher a forma como ser?o controlados os ciclos do processo, se por tempo, por press?o ou manualmente, e definir os valores de vaz?o de ar a ?gua utilizados durantes os ciclos. Esses valores podem ser definidos a partir de um set point ou a partir da porcentagem de abertura das v?lvulas. S?o apresentados resultados de testes realizados na planta utilizando as formas de controle mais usuais: por tempo e por press?o no revestimento. Por fim, estes ser?o confrontados com resultdos gerados por um simulador configurados com as caracter?sticas da Planta Piloto

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JeffersonDF_DISSERT.pdf: 1592605 bytes, checksum: aa61d131dd2eadfff386030e41f5bd71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-22 / The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) methods applied to the lifting of oil present as an area with growing demand technical and scientific in view of the optimizations that can be carried forward with existing processes. This dissertation has as main objective to present the development of embedded systems dedicated to a wireless sensor network based on IEEE 802.15.4, which applies the ZigBee protocol, between sensors, actuators and the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), aiming to solve the present problems in the deployment and maintenance of the physical communication of current elevation oil units based on the method Plunger-Lift. Embedded systems developed for this application will be responsible for acquiring information from sensors and control actuators of the devices present at the well, and also, using the Modbus protocol to make this network becomes transparent to the PLC responsible for controlling the production and delivery information for supervisory SISAL / As Redes de Sensores Sem Fio (RSSF) aplicadas aos m?todos de eleva??o de petr?leo se apresentam como uma ?rea com crescente demanda t?cnico-cient?fica tendo em vista as otimiza??es que podem ser realizadas frente aos processos existentes. Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo apresentar o desenvolvimento de sistemas embarcados dedicados a uma rede de sensores sem fio baseada no padr?o IEEE 802.15.4, onde se aplica o protocolo ZigBee, entre os sensores, atuadores e o CLP (Controlador L?gico Program?vel), visando solucionar os problemas presentes nas fases de implanta??o e manuten??o da comunica??o f?sica atual das unidades de eleva??o de petr?leo baseadas no m?todo Plunger-Lift. Os sistemas embarcados desenvolvidos para essa aplica??o ser?o respons?veis por interpretar as informa??es dos sensores e comandar os atuadores dos dispositivos presentes no po?o, como tamb?m utilizar o protocolo Modbus para fazer com que essa rede se torne transparente para o CLP respons?vel pelo controle da produ??o e envio das informa??es para o supervis?rio SISAL

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LennedyCS_DISSERT.pdf: 3653783 bytes, checksum: 8a237d13a56a26f3a6ff1bf8c63bdede (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-22 / The several existing methods for oil artificial lifting and the variety of automation equipment for these methods many times lead the supervisory systems to be dedicated to a unique method and/or to a unique manufacturer. To avoid this problem, it has been developed the supervisory system named SISAL, conceived to supervise wells with different lifting methods and different automation equipments. The SISAL system is working in several Brazilian states but, nowadays, it is only supervising rod pump-based wells. The objective of this work is the development of a supervision module to the plunger lift artificial lift method. The module will have the same characteristics of working with automation hardware of many manufacturers. The module will be integrated to the SISAL system, incorporating the capacity to supervise the plunger lift artificial lift method. / Os v?rios m?todos de eleva??o artificial de petr?leo e os diferentes equipamentos de automa??o existentes muitas vezes levam a que os sistemas supervis?rios sejam dedicados a um ?nico m?todo e/ou a um ?nico fabricante de equipamentos. Para contornar este problema, foi desenvolvido o sistema SISAL, capaz de supervisionar po?os com diferentes m?todos de eleva??o e equipamentos de automa??o. Atualmente, o SISAL est? em opera??o em diversos po?os em v?rios estados do Brasil, supervisionando po?os de bombeio mec?nico. O objetivo deste trabalho ? desenvolver um m?dulo de supervis?o para o m?todo de eleva??o artificial plunger lift, com as mesmas caracter?sticas de poder trabalhar com hardwares de automa??o de diferentes fabricantes. O m?dulo desenvolvido ser? integrado ao SISAL, de forma a incorporar ao sistema a capacidade de supervisionar este novo m?todo de eleva??o.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SergioJGS.pdf: 1164807 bytes, checksum: 597fe8700a95271ecd0c0f3e0b460362 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-13 / This work intends to analyze the behavior of the gas flow of plunger lift wells producing to well testing separators in offshore production platforms to aim a technical procedure to estimate the gas flow during the slug production period. The motivation for this work appeared from the expectation of some wells equipped with plunger lift method by PETROBRAS in Ubarana sea field located at Rio Grande do Norte State coast where the produced fluids measurement is made in well testing separators at the platform. The oil artificial lift method called plunger lift is used when the available energy of the reservoir is not high enough to overcome all the necessary load losses to lift the oil from the bottom of the well to the surface continuously. This method consists, basically, in one free piston acting as a mechanical interface between the formation gas and the produced liquids, greatly increasing the well s lifting efficiency. A pneumatic control valve is mounted at the flow line to control the cycles. When this valve opens, the plunger starts to move from the bottom to the surface of the well lifting all the oil and gas that are above it until to reach the well test separator where the fluids are measured. The well test separator is used to measure all the volumes produced by the well during a certain period of time called production test. In most cases, the separators are designed to measure stabilized flow, in other words, reasonably constant flow by the use of level and pressure electronic controllers (PLC) and by assumption of a steady pressure inside the separator. With plunger lift wells the liquid and gas flow at the surface are cyclical and unstable what causes the appearance of slugs inside the separator, mainly in the gas phase, because introduce significant errors in the measurement system (e.g.: overrange error). The flow gas analysis proposed in this work is based on two mathematical models used together: i) a plunger lift well model proposed by Baruzzi [1] with later modifications made by Bolonhini [2] to built a plunger lift simulator; ii) a two-phase separator model (gas + liquid) based from a three-phase separator model (gas + oil + water) proposed by Nunes [3]. Based on the models above and with field data collected from the well test separator of PUB-02 platform (Ubarana sea field) it was possible to demonstrate that the output gas flow of the separator can be estimate, with a reasonable precision, from the control signal of the Pressure Control Valve (PCV). Several models of the System Identification Toolbox from MATLAB? were analyzed to evaluate which one better fit to the data collected from the field. For validation of the models, it was used the AIC criterion, as well as a variant of the cross validation criterion. The ARX model performance was the best one to fit to the data and, this way, we decided to evaluate a recursive algorithm (RARX) also with real time data. The results were quite promising that indicating the viability to estimate the output gas flow rate from a plunger lift well producing to a well test separator, with the built-in information of the control signal to the PCV / Este trabalho se prop?e a realizar uma an?lise do comportamento da vaz?o de g?s de po?os produzindo por plunger lift para vasos separadores de teste em plataformas de produ??o de petr?leo com o objetivo de propor uma t?cnica de estima??o da vaz?o durante os instantes de golfadas provocadas por estes tipos de po?os. A motiva??o para este trabalho surgiu diante da perspectiva de instala??o pela PETROBRAS de alguns po?os equipados com plunger lift no campo mar?timo de Ubarana situado na costa do Rio Grande do Norte onde a medi??o dos volumes produzidos ? feita em vaso separador na plataforma. O m?todo de eleva??o artificial de petr?leo denominado plunger lift ? utilizado quando a energia dispon?vel no reservat?rio n?o ? suficiente para vencer todas as perdas de carga necess?rias para elevar o petr?leo do fundo do po?o at? a superf?cie de forma cont?nua. O m?todo consiste, basicamente, de um pist?o livre (plunger) agindo como uma interface mec?nica entre o g?s da forma??o e os l?quidos produzidos, aumentando enormemente a efici?ncia de eleva??o. ? instalada, tamb?m, uma v?lvula de controle acionada pneumaticamente, na linha de produ??o do po?o para efetuar o controle dos ciclos. Ao ser aberta a v?lvula, o pist?o se desloca do fundo do po?o at? a superf?cie, elevando o ?leo e o g?s que se encontram acima do mesmo at? chegar no vaso separador de teste onde os fluidos ser?o medidos. O vaso separador de teste ? utilizado para fazer a aferi??o dos volumes produzidos pelo po?o durante um determinado per?odo de tempo denominado de teste de produ??o. Na maioria dos casos, os vasos separadores s?o projetados para medi??o de vaz?es estabilizadas, ou seja, razoavelmente constantes atrav?s do uso de controladores eletr?nicos de n?vel e de press?o. No caso de po?os produzindo por plunger lift, as vaz?es de l?quido e de g?s na superf?cie s?o c?clicas e de amplitude vari?vel, acarretando o surgimento de golfadas no interior do vaso separador provocando, principalmente para o caso do g?s, erros significativos no sistema de medi??o (ex.: erro de overrange ). A an?lise da vaz?o de g?s proposta neste trabalho se baseia na integra??o de dois modelos matem?ticos: i) modelagem de um po?o de plunger lift proposta por Baruzzi [1] com modifica??es efetuadas posteriormente por Bolonhini [2] na implementa??o de um simulador de plunger lift; ii) modelagem de um vaso separador bif?sico (g?s + l?quido) a partir de um modelo trif?sico (?leo + g?s + ?gua) proposto por Nunes [3]. Com base nos modelos acima e utilizando-se dados coletados no vaso separador de teste da plataforma PUB-02 (campo de Ubarana), foi poss?vel demonstrar que a vaz?o de sa?da de g?s do vaso de teste pode ser estimada, com razo?vel precis?o, a partir do sinal de controle da v?lvula controladora de press?o (PCV). Diversos modelos dispon?veis no toolbox de Identifica??o de Sistemas do MATLAB? foram analisados para se avaliar qual seria o que melhor se adaptava aos dados coletados no campo. Para a valida??o dos modelos foi usado o crit?rio de AIC, bem como uma variante do crit?rio de valida??o cruzada. O modelo ARX foi o que apresentou melhor desempenho com base nos dados coletados e, desta forma, decidiu-se avaliar tamb?m um algoritmo recursivo (RARX) com dados obtidos em tempo real. Os resultados foram bastante promissores, indicando a viabilidade de se poder estimar a vaz?o de sa?da de g?s de um po?o de plunger lift produzindo para um vaso separador de teste a partir da informa??o contida no sinal de controle da PCV

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PlinioACV.pdf: 2673165 bytes, checksum: 041961f375616fef1afc4244b3a44c02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-02 / The purpose of this study was to develop a pilot plant which the main goal is to emulate a flow peak pressure in a separation vessel. Effect similar that is caused by the production in a slug flow in production wells equipped with the artificial lift method plunger lift. The motivation for its development was the need to test in a plant on a smaller scale, a new technique developed to estimate the gas flow in production wells equipped with plunger lift. To develop it, studies about multiphase flow effects, operation methods of artificial lift in plunger lift wells, industrial instrumentation elements, control valves, vessel sizing separators and measurement systems were done. The methodology used was the definition of process flowcharts, its parameters and how the effects needed would be generated for the success of the experiments. Therefore, control valves, the design and construction of vessels and the acquisition of other equipment used were defined. One of the vessels works as a tank of compressed air that is connected to the separation vessel and generates pulses of gas controlled by a on/off valve. With the emulator system ready, several control experiments were made, being the control of peak flow pressure generation and the flow meter the main experiments, this way, it was confirmed the efficiency of the plant usage in the problem that motivated it. It was concluded that the system is capable of generate effects of flow with peak pressure in a primary separation vessel. Studies such as the estimation of gas flow at the exit of the vessel and several academic studies can be done and tested on a smaller scale and then applied in real plants, avoiding waste of time and money. / A proposta desse trabalho foi desenvolver uma planta-piloto com o objetivo principal de emular picos de press?o de escoamentos num vaso de separa??o. Efeito semelhante ao provocado pela produ??o em forma de golfadas em po?os de produ??o equipados com o m?todo de eleva??o artificial plunger lift. A motiva??o para o desenvolvimento do mesmo foi a necessidade de se testar, numa planta em escala menor, uma nova t?cnica desenvolvida para a estima??o da vaz?o de g?s em po?os produtores equipados com plunger lift. Para seu desenvolvimento foram realizados estudos sobre efeitos dos escoamentos multif?sicos, funcionamento de m?todos de eleva??o artificial em po?os de plunger lift, dos elementos de instrumenta??o industrial, v?lvulas de controle, dimensionamento de vasos separadores e sistemas de medi??o. A metodologia utilizada foi a defini??o dos fluxogramas do processo, seus par?metros e como seriam gerados os efeitos necess?rios para o sucesso dos experimentos. Assim, foram definidas as v?lvulas de controle, o dimensionamento e constru??o dos vasos e a aquisi??o dos demais equipamentos utilizados. Um dos vasos funciona como reservat?rio de ar comprimido que, conectado ao vaso de separa??o, gera pulsos de g?s controlados por uma v?lvula on/off. Com o sistema emulador pronto, foram realizadas diversas experi?ncias de controle, sendo o controle de press?o com gera??o de picos e medi??o de vaz?o a principal experi?ncia, onde se comprovou a efici?ncia da utiliza??o da planta no problema que a motivou. Concluiu-se que o sistema ? capaz de gerar efeitos de escoamentos com picos de press?o num vaso de separa??o prim?ria. Estudos como a estima??o de vaz?o de g?s na saida do vaso e diversos estudos acad?micos poder?o ser feitos e testados numa escala menor sendo aplicados em seguida nas plantas reais, evitando perda de tempo e dinheiro

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO RODRIGO SOARES SEMENTE.pdf: 1203856 bytes, checksum: 4eaca6c76cb5befb0c8681343579bc26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-22 / Wireless sensors and actuators Networks specified by IEEE 802.15.4, are becoming increasingly being applied to instrumentation, as in instrumentation of oil wells with completion Plunger Lift type. Due to specific characteristics of the environment being installed, it s find the risk of compromising network security, and presenting several attack scenarios and the potential damage from them. It`s found the need for a more detailed security study of these networks, which calls for use of encryption algorithms, like AES-128 bits and RC6. So then it was implement the algorithms RC6 and AES-128, in an 8 bits microcontroller, and study its performance characteristics, critical for embedded applications. From these results it was developed a Hybrid Algorithm Cryptographic, ACH, which showed intermediate characteristics between the AES and RC6, more appropriate for use in applications with limitations of power consumption and memory. Also was present a comparative study of quality of security among the three algorithms, proving ACH cryptographic capability. / As redes de sensores e atuadores sem-fio especificadas pelo padr?o IEEE 802.15.4, est?o cada vez mais sendo aplicadas ? instrumenta??o, como na instrumenta??o de po?os de petr?leo com completa??o do tipo Plunger Lift. Devido ?s caracter?sticas espec?ficas do ambiente que est?o sendo instaladas, foram observados riscos de comprometimento de seguran?a da rede, e estudados v?rios cen?rios de ataques e os danos potenciais dos mesmos. Verificou-se assim a necessidade de um estudo mais detalhado de seguran?a dessas redes, que preconiza o uso de algoritmos de criptografia, como o AES-128 bits e RC6. Assim foram implementados os algoritmos AES-128 e RC6, em um microcontrolador de apenas 8 bits, e realizados estudos detalhados de suas caracter?sticas de desempenho, crucial para aplica??es embarcadas. A partir desses resultados foi criado um Algoritmo Criptogr?fico H?brido, ACH, que apresentou caracter?sticas intermedi?rias entre o AES e o RC6, mais apropriadas para uso em aplica??es com limita??es de consumo de energia e mem?ria. Tamb?m foi realizado um estudo comparativo da qualidade de seguran?a entre os tr?s algoritmos, provando a capacidade criptogr?fica do ACH.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:58:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipePMA_DISSERT.pdf: 3715487 bytes, checksum: 630bbbaabad6ec787270701f99c61fb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-18 / A critical problem in mature gas wells is the liquid loading. As the reservoir pressure decreases, gas superficial velocities decreases and the drag exerted on the liquid phase may become insufficient to bring all the liquid to the surface. Liquid starts to drain downward, flooding the well and increasing the backpressure which decreases the gas superficial velocity and so on. A popular method to remedy this problem is the Plunger Lift. This method consists of dropping the "plunger"to the bottom of the tubing well with the main production valve closed. When the plunger reaches the well bottom the production valve is opened and the plunger carry the liquid to the surface. However, models presented in literature for predicting the behavior in plunger lift are simplistic, in many cases static (not considering the transient effects). Therefore work presents the development and validation of a numerical algorithm to solve one-dimensional compressible in gas wells using the Finite Volume Method and PRIME techniques for treating coupling of pressure and velocity fields. The code will be then used to develop a dynamic model for the plunger lift which includes the transient compressible flow within the well / Um problema cr?tico em po?os maduros de g?s ? a carga l?quida. Quando a press?o do reservat?rio diminui, a velocidade superficial diminui e o arrasto exercido na fase l?quida pode se tornar insuficiente para trazer todo o l?quido para a superf?cie. O l?quido come?a a drenar para baixo, afogando o po?o e aumentando a contrapress?o, a qual diminui a velocidade superficial, e assim por diante. Um m?todo popular para remediar esse problema ? o plunger lift. Esse m?todo consiste em derrubar um plunger na fundo coluna de produ??o com a v?lvula principal fechada. Quando o plunger alcan?a o fundo do po?o a v?lvula de produ??o ? aberta e o plunger carrega o l?quido para a superf?cie. Atualmente, os modelos presentes na literatura para prever o comportamento do plunger s?o simplistas, em muitos casos est?ticos (n?o consideram efeitos transientes). Assim, esse trabalho apresenta e valida um algor?timo num?rico para resolver escoamentos em po?os de g?s usando o M?todo dos Volumes Finitos e a t?cnica PRIME para tratar o acoplamento da press?o e velocidade. Esse modelo ser? usado para desenvolver modelos din?micos para plunger lift que incluem efeitos transientes e compress?veis nos escoamentos em po?os

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipeDMO.pdf: 2614728 bytes, checksum: fd69e303891800912ab5260562a5545d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-13 / This dissertation aims to develop a software applied to a communication system for a wireless sensor network (WSN) for tracking analog and digital variables and control valve of the gas flow in artificial oil s elevation units, Plunger Lift type. The reason for this implementation is due to the fact that, in the studied plant configuration, the sensors communicate with the PLC (Programmable and Logic Controller) by the cables and pipelines, making any changes in that system, such as changing the layout of it, as well as inconveniences that arise from the nature of the site, such as the vicinity s animals presence that tend to destroy the cables for interconnection of sensors to the PLC. For software development, was used communication polling method via SMAC protocol (Simple Medium Access ControlIEEE 802.15.4 standard) in the CodeWarrior environment to which generated a firmware, loaded into the WSN s transceivers, present in the kit MC13193-EVK, (all items described above are owners of Freescale Semiconductors Inc.). The network monitoring and parameterization used in its application, was developed in LabVIEW software from National Instruments. The results were obtained through the observation of the network s behavior of sensors proposal, focusing on aspects such as: indoor and outdoor quantity of packages received and lost, general aspects of reliability in data transmission, coexistence with other types of wireless networks and power consumption under different operating conditions. The results were considered satisfactory, which showed the software efficiency in this communication system / Este trabalho tem por finalidade desenvolver um software aplicado a um sistema de comunica??o de uma rede de sensores sem fio (RSSF), para monitoramento de vari?veis anal?gicas, digitais e comando de v?lvulas de passagem do fluxo de g?s em unidades de eleva??o artificial de petr?leo e g?s natural do tipo Plunger Lift. A raz?o desta implementa??o deve-se ao fato que, na configura??o da planta estudada, os sensores comunicam-se com o CLP (Controlador L?gico Program?vel) atrav?s de cabos e dutos, dificultando eventuais modifica??es nesse sistema, tais como mudan?a de layout do mesmo, al?m de inconveni?ncias que venham a surgir da pr?pria natureza do local, como a presen?a de animais nas redondezas que tendem a destruir os cabos de interconex?o dos sensores ao CLP. Para o desenvolvimento do software, foi utilizado o m?todo de comunica??o polling, atrav?s do protocolo SMAC (Simple Medium Access Control - padr?o IEEE 802.15.4), no ambiente CodeWarrior, ao qual gerou um firmware, carregado nas placas de monitoramento da RSSF, presentes no kit MC13193-EVK, (todos os itens descritos acima s?o propriet?rios da Freescale Semiconductors Inc.). O monitoramento e parametriza??o da rede utilizou uma aplica??o, desenvolvida no software LabVIEW, da National Instruments. Os resultados foram obtidos atrav?s da observa??o do comportamento da rede de sensores proposta, focando aspectos, tais como: quantidade de pacotes recebidos e perdidos em ambientes externos (Outdoor) e internos (Indoor), aspectos gerais de confiabilidade na transmiss?o dos dados, coexist?ncia entre outros tipos de redes sem fio e consumo de energia sob diferentes condi??es de opera??o. Os resultados obtidos foram considerados satisfat?rios, o que comprovou a efici?ncia do software neste sistema de comunica??o

During the reservoir production life reservoir pressure will decline. Also after water breakthrough the fluid column weight will increase as hydrostatic pressure will increase because of increased water and oil mixture density. In this case, reservoir pressure may not be enough to lift up the fluid from bottom to the surface. These reasons decrease or even may cause to stop flowing of fluids from the well. Some techniques must be applied to prevent the production decline. Artificial lift techniques are applied to add energy to the produced fluids. It increases production rate by reducing down-hole pressure and so that by increasing the drawdown. Artificial lift techniques increase production either by pumping the produced fluid from the bottom to the surface or reduce bottom-hole pressure by reducing the fluid column weight as a result of decreased fluid mixture density. Artificial lift is used worldwide in approximately 85% of the wells, thus its impact in overall efficiency and profitability of production operations cannot be overemphasized. The most important problem is how to select optimum artificial lift techniques by taking into consideration the reservoir, well, environmental conditions. Selection of poor technique could cause decrease in efficiency and low profitability. As a result, it will lead to high operating expenses. Several techniques have been developed for selection of optimum artificial lift techniques. Expert Systems (ES) is the most suitable technique used in these selection techniques. Because the use and availability of required parameters is easy. Also in this selection method most of the artificial lift techniques are analyzed rather than other selection techniques. Expert Systems program mainly consist of three modules: (1) Expert Module, (2) Design Module, and (3) Economic Module. By entering required data to the system, program automatically suggests the feasible artificial lift techniques those might be used referring to given data. In this thesis work the artificial lift selection criteria and Expert Systems available in the literature have been studied. A Microsoft Windows based program has been developed to predict suitability of artificial lift methods for a given set of wells and produced fluid parameters. For the selected artificial lift method (i.e. sucker rod pump, ESP, gas lift, hydraulic pump, PCP) the program is able to perform basic calculations for the given data. Different case studies have been performed by running the program with actual data from fields. Well data of Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Iranian oil fields has been used in case studies. The results have been compared with previous studies those have been done on these fields with other selection techniques and current artificial lift techniques are being applied in selected wells. The obtained program results have been overlap with current real field application and previous studies.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-10-02T23:37:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielsonFlavioXavierDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 3822953 bytes, checksum: 058ad7d6c4479d187704c913aa3a0361 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-10-07T00:15:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielsonFlavioXavierDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 3822953 bytes, checksum: 058ad7d6c4479d187704c913aa3a0361 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-07T00:15:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielsonFlavioXavierDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 3822953 bytes, checksum: 058ad7d6c4479d187704c913aa3a0361 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-10 / Este trabalho aborda o m?todo de eleva??o artificial chamado plunger lift, que ? utilizado em po?os com baixa press?o de reservat?rio. Este m?todo utiliza um ?mbolo mec?nico para auxiliar a subida do ?leo do fundo do po?o at? a superf?cie, atrav?s do fechamento e abertura do po?o com intervalo de tempo distintos. O plunger lift possui algumas etapas que, quando conclu?das, completam um ciclo. Foi desenvolvido um simulador em Java R com o modelo matem?tico implementado no projeto AUTOPOC, desenvolvido no Laborat?rio de Automa??o em Petr?leo, na linguagem C++. Foram implementados dois tipos de controle liga-desliga para este m?todo: controle por temporiza??o e controle por press?o de revestimento. Por fim, resultados s?o obtidos com o simulador, os quais s?o comparados para uma an?lise detalhada e conclus?es acerca do desempenho dos controladores implementados. / This work aboard the artificial lift method named plunger lift, that is used in wells with low reservoir pressure. This method uses a mechanical plunger to help the oil lift from the bottom of the well to the surface through the well, closing and opening with different time interval. The plunger lift has some stages that, when concluded, complete a cycle. It was developed a simulator in Java R with mathematical model implemented in the AUTOPOC, project developed at Laborat?rio de Automa??o em Petr?leo, in C++ language. It were implemented two types of on-off controls for this method: time control and control by casing pressure. Finally, results are obtained with the simulator, what are compared for detailed analysis and take conclusions about the performance of the implemented controllers.