Well Activation in Oil &Gas Process
Well activation in the oil & gas is the process of bringing newly drilled or recently serviced well into production.
This stage is where the well is brought from a completed but inactive stage to active production.
The primary goal of well activation is to ensure reservoir pressure is greater than the hydrostatic pressure so as to enable hydrocarbon flow naturally.
Some of the final process in well activation which we successfully carried out was:
1, Ensuring all pressure gauge are fully functional to be able to read the well pressure.
2, Gas lifting of the well, high pressure gas is injected into the well to aerate the liquids, making them light enough for the reservoir pressure to push to the surface.
3, Line up the production tube to test header which then redirect the flow to the well test separator.
Well test separator:
The primary goal of a test separator is to accurately measure and analyze the production rates of each fluid phase from a single well. This provides critical data on:
-Oil, gas, and water flow rates(volumes per day or hour)
-Gas-oil ratio
-Water cut(percentage of water in the liquid)
-Fluid properties and composition(via sampling)
-Well productivity and performance
-Reservoir characteristics and potential.
After all is been archived we line up production from the test header to the manifold which send the liquid to flow station.
