Applicant: Baker Hughes Inc, USA
A system and method for obtaining enhanced production from a well is described by this patent. The system includes a unit that processes instructions contained in a computer program, which includes instructions to monitor the actual flow rate of the fluid from each production zone of the well, over a time period corresponding to a first setting of the flow control devices, and to employ a nodal analysis on a plurality of inputs from down-hole sensor measurements, surface sensor measurements, one or more current positions of the devices, in order to determine one or more new settings that will provide enhanced production from the well.
Patent number: WO/2009/005876
Inventors: B.L. Thigpen, G.P. Vachon, G. Yeriazarian, J. Lee, C.M. Chok, C. Sann and X. Liu
Publication date: 8 January 2009
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