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Production and Completions
Artificial Lift for Unconventional Wells
This course looks at how to select, install and run artificial lift across the full life of unconventional wells, starting from early well planning. It highlights how these wells differ from conventional ones, particularly in how inflow changes over time, and reviews the main lift methods with their strengths and weaknesses. Participants leave with practical approaches to reduce the operating problems that commonly arise.
- Discipline
- Production and Completions
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- Flexible length
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Production and artificial lift engineers at operators, service companies or consultancies who know conventional lift and need to apply it to unconventional wells.
What participants will be able to do
- Define production and lift objectives early in well planning
- Distinguish lift requirements for unconventional and conventional wells
- Evaluate how changing inflow performance affects lift choice over time
- Compare the major artificial lift methods for unconventional wells
- Manage common operating issues across the well life cycle
Topics covered
- Unconventional well behaviour
- Inflow performance over time
- Nodal analysis for lift
- Lift method selection
- Lift life-cycle planning
- Operating problem mitigation