Presenters
Leslie Malone
Murphy Oil & Exploration Co.
Murphy is currently operating 500 beam pumped wells in the unconventional Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas. There are numerous challenges to beam pumping operations in the Eagle Ford, which included paraffin, corrosion, solids, deviated wellbores, slug flow, and foamy gassy fluid.
One of the challenges, foamy gassy fluid, led to a study of the effectiveness of downhole separators. The results of the case study will be presented along with conclusions on the ability to manage or mitigate gas interference in the beamed pumped wells Murphy operates in the Eagle Ford Shale asset.