A Control Strategy for an Oil Well Operating via Gas Lift

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  • A Plucenio
  • G A Mafra
  • D J Pagano
چکیده

This article proposes a control strategy for an oil well operating via gas-lift. The well model is implemented in the OLGA simulator (Scandpower) using an orifice valve (no moving parts) downhole with control in the gas lift surface valve and production choke. The dynamic identification uses the knowledge of the process static gain as the nonlinear static block of a Hammerstein model representation. An Adaptive Notch Filter was designed to damp the resonant system frequencies. Simulation results showed that the control strategy proposed was able to move the well operating point along the region of economical interest and to reject the perturbation imposed on the downstream side of the production choke. Copyright c ©2006 IFAC

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تاریخ انتشار 2006