Paper: (25) HIGH LIQUID VOLUME PLUNGER LIFT IN THE PERMIAN BASIN

This paper will be on the use of high liquid volume plunger lift in the Permian Basin.  This method of lift was first considered in an effort to bridge the gap for taking high liquid volume wells from flowing to rod pump.  Historically in the Permian Basin this was accomplished with high cost electric submersible pumps, gas lift or rod pump.  One of the criteria for success was that plunger lift would be able to economically maintain a well on its natural decline.  Representative decline curves will be presented, along with operating pressures and histories on the successful wells.  This paper is will be an update of a previous paper presented in 2015 for wells in the Southern Delaware Basin.