Examination Questions on Flowing Well Performance

1. In addition to oil, almost all oil wells produce a certain amount of

(3)_____. These are referred to as __________
2. The TPR equation for single phase flow is not valid for ___________
3. Multiphase flow is much more complicated than single phase

flow because of ___________

4. Fluid _______ changes greatly in different ___________, which

significantly affects pressure ______ in the tubing.
5. Four flow regimes in gas-liquid two phase flow:
6. In ______ flow, gas phase is dispersed in the form of small bubbles in a
continuous liquid phase.
7. In _____ flow, gas bubbles coalesce into large bubbles that eventually fill
the entire pipe cross-section.
8. In ______ flow, the larger gas bubbles become unstable and collapse,
resulting in a highly turbulent flow pattern with both phases dispursed.
9. In ______ flow,gas becomes the continuous phase, with liquid flowing in
an annulus, coating the surface of the pipe and with droplets entrained
in the gas phase.
10. Liquid Holdup definition
11. Liquid Holdup (eqn.) =
12. Liquid holdup depends on ______. Its value can be
quantitatively determined only through experimental measurements.
13. Poettman-Carpenter's model uses _____________ for friction pressure
loss calculations without considering the effect of ___________. It was a
_______ model.
14. Guo and Ghalambour's TPR model was _________
15. What are the Homogeneous-Flow models for TPR?
16. What are the Separated-Flow Models for TPR?
17. The Poettmann-Carpenter model assumed what? Involves calculating
what?
18. Poett-mann-Carpenter model is only accurate for what type of depth?
19. Like the Poettmann-Carpenter model, the Guo Ghalambour model
assumes what?
20. In the Separated Flow Model by Hagedorn and Brown, what
modifications are made?
21. The superficial velocity of a given phase is defined as ________
22. For the modified version of Hagedorn and Brown's correlation for
Separated flow, the _________ term can usually be ignored / assumed to
be zero.
23. Wellhead chokes are used to _______ for ____(4)____
24. Two types of chokes:
25. Placing a choke at the wellhead means fixing _________ and, thus, the
_________ and _________.
26. For a given wellhead pressure, by calculating the pressure loss in the
tubing the __________ can be determined
27. If the _________ and ________ are known, the flow rate can then be
determined on the basis of IPR.
28. When the produced oil reaches the wellhead choke, the wellhead
pressure is usually ____________. This means that _________
29. Choke behaves differently depending on _______ and ___________
30. _________ performed the first investigation on gas-liquid twophase flow
through restrictions(chokes).
31. Tangren's work: When gas bubbles are added to an incompressible
fluid, above a critical flow velocity, the medium becomes ________
32. Gilbert found the values for C,m,n to be _______. In what field was he?
33. What other researchers came up it C, m, and n values?
34. Chokes/ Critical Sonic Flow: Poettmann and Beck extended the work of
______ to develop charts for different _________.
35. Chokes / Critical Sonic Flow: _______ derived dimensionless choke
correltaions for water-gas systems.
36. What input data are needed to run the HB TPR correlation?
37. For the Hagedorn and Brown correlation (TPR) What input data can be
used to perform Parametric Sensitivity studies?
38. What type of equation is Gilbert's equation?
39. Pwh= ?
40. With the knowledge of _______, it is possible to forecast _________, that
is, future production rate and __________ of oil and gas.
41. Combined with ________, the production forecast can be used for field
economic analysis.
42. A production forecast is performed on the basis of _______
43. The ___________ in the reservoir determine the inflow performance
relationship and , therefore, production rates of wells.
44. The ___________ in the reservoir determine the inflow performance
relationship and , therefore, production rates of wells.
45. Future production rates are predicted using _________ and __________
46. Cumulative Production is predicted by _________
47. A complete production forecast should be carried out in different flow
periods identified on the basis of _________ and ________. Three
periods?
48. The production rate during the transient flow period can be predicted
by Nodal analysis using ________ and ______
49. The same TPR is usually used in the transient flow period assuming
50. It is essential to validate the selected TPR model (Poettmann-Carpenter,
mod. Hagedorn-Brown, etc.) based on measured data such as ________
51. If it says transient, we need to find _________. This value will give us the
time at which this model is no longer useful. If we have a graph for
anything transient, the graph should end at ______.
52. Well deliverability is determined by the combination of ____________
and______________
53. Wellbore flow performance describes
54. Fluid properties change with the _________ and _______ in the oil and
gas production system
55. To simulate fluid flow in the system, it is necessary to _____
56. The system analysis for determination of fluid production rate and
pressure at a specified node is called ________ _________
57. Nodal analysis is performed on the principle
of ___________, that is, there is only one unique pressure value at a
given node regardless of whether the pressure is evaluated from the
performance of upstream equipment or downstream equipment.
58. The performance curve (pressure-rate relation) of ________ equipment
is called ''inflow performance curve'';
59. the performance curve of ________ equipment is called ''outflow
performance curve.'
60. Nodal analysis is usually conducted using the _______ or ________ as
the solution node.
61. When the bottom-hole is used as a solution node in Nodal analysis, the
inflow performance is the well___________ and the outflow
performance is the______________if the tubing shoe is set to the top of
the pay zone