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

Claim 10:
11. A launch point lift gas velocity control system comprising:
a system controller comprising a system processor, the system controller operating to control 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 gas-liquid mixture disposed within a production string fitted within a well bore, the production string configured to allow the gas-liquid mixture to travel within the production string, the production string in fluid communication with a hydrocarbon deposit and having a set of well parameters comprising a first set of well parameters; and
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, the system control device controlled by the system controller;
wherein, upon identification of the launch point location within the production string, the system processor executes machine-executable instructions 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.