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in an oil well, What is a test line for? 1

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monirri

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Feb 22, 2006
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Hi

I am auditing flow lines of new oil wells. Oil wells have a regular oil pipeline and a test pipeline.

What is the test pipeline for?

Thanks

Carlos Molina

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Err testing the well?

I don't understand your system so you need to draw it. Normally a single well will simply either have test connections for a mobile test separator or 3 phase meter or will connect at a manifold with other wells to a test header so that individual wells can be tested.

But there might be a different type of test. Please elaborate.



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The testing is to see if it produces.

Thanks.

Carlos F Molina
 
Kind of. Oil fields typically sell oil by the lease. The allocation back to the wells (for engineering analysis) is based on periodic well tests. You shift a well to test, assign a flow rate and assume that this flow rate remains constant (or at least a constant proportion of the total field) until the next test.

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