Patent ID: 11965400
Assignee: WELL MASTER CORPORATION
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 0:
1. A method of controlling a launch point lift gas velocity of a gas-liquid mixture at a launch point location of a production string of a well casing, the method comprising:
identifying the launch point location within the production string, the production string disposed within a well bore and configured to allow the gas-liquid mixture to travel within the production string, the production tubing string in fluid communication with a hydrocarbon deposit and having a set of well parameters comprising a first set of well parameters;
providing a system control device in fluid communication with the production string and having a set of system control device settings comprising an initial system control device setting;
providing a system controller comprising a computer processor, the computer processor having machine-executable instructions operating to:
receive the first set of well parameters;
receive the initial system control device setting;
receive the launch point location;
determine a launch point lift gas velocity at the launch point location based at least on the first set of well parameters, the launch point lift gas velocity enabling the gas-liquid mixture adjacent the launch point location to depart the launch point location;
determine an adjusted system control device setting that establishes the launch point lift gas velocity at the launch point location;
communicate the adjusted system control device setting to the system control device; and
adjust the system control device to the adjusted system control device setting from the initial system control device setting; wherein:

the gas-liquid mixture adjacent the launch point location departs the launch point location as a launched gas-liquid mixture that achieves the launch point lift gas velocity.