Patent ID: 8113288

Claim:
A method of injecting gaseous fluid produced from a production well into a gas-lift well at a selected injection volume flow rate, the method comprising the steps of: accumulating gaseous and non-gaseous fluids from the production well in a separator; compressing the gaseous fluid from the separator; injecting the compressed gaseous fluid into the gas-lift well at or below the injection volume flow rate; sensing a volume flow rate of gaseous fluid from the separator into the compressor; diverting compressed gaseous fluid out of the compressor and into the separator if the sensed volume flow rate of gaseous fluid from the separator into the compressor is at or below the injection volume flow rate; and diverting flow of the non-gaseous fluid out of the separator into a sales line if the sensed volume flow rate of gaseous fluid from the separator into the compressor is above the injection volume flow rate.