Patent ID: 8881810
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A method for improving oil mobility during surface well testing, the method comprising: producing a multiphase fluid from a well; separating a hydrocarbon gas constituent and an oil constituent having a first viscosity from the multiphase fluid in a surface well testing facility; measuring the separated hydrocarbon gas constituent and the separated oil constituent; injecting a first portion of the separated hydrocarbon gas constituent into the separated oil constituent; dispersing the first portion of the separated hydrocarbon gas constituent into the separated oil constituent to form an oil/hydrocarbon gas mixture having a second viscosity that is lower than the first viscosity of the separated oil constituent, thereby improving oil mobility during surface well testing; flaring a second portion of the separated hydrocarbon gas constituent; injecting air into the oil/hydrocarbon gas mixture upstream of an oil burner; and burning the oil/hydrocarbon gas mixture at the oil burner.