AN INNOVATIVE WAY OF PLUNGER LIFT SAFETY AND CONSERVATION
According to the American Petroleum Institute (API), 11 PL ® is growing in plunger lift, creating a new and reliable way to safer and reliable operation of plunger lift wells. Operations and equipment manufacturers have been participating on designing and testing plunger lift equipment to create a reliable product which improves the overall safety of the well operation.
Even though the plunger lift industry has been rapidly developing and evolving, it still remains mostly unregulated, which leads to unsafe and unreliable equipment usage and installation. One of their main fails comes from damage of well head surface equipment which can have catastrophic consequences such as spills or staff injuries. Nevertheless, there is opportunity for growth, and the industry’s failures acts as an incentive to continue developing a possible solution for plunger lift equipment.
As the industry continues to have the need of alternative solutions, positive outputs have demonstrated there is still hope for development. One of the main outputs has been to establish a requirement for manufacturers to provide a kinetic energy rating for their lubricator and spring combinations. The implementation of kinetic energy helps to measure, track, and react to real impact that the equipment takes. Kinetic energy calculation brings more advantages to the equipment, as it can also measure for acceleration and deceleration, something that an average plunger won’t be able to calculate.
The “SURICATA” Plunger Lift Controller is brought by Smarter Controllers to the market and guarantees successful measurement, storage, and reliability to the consumer. Its more-than-average speed of the plunger control system can ensure taking the surface velocity for each plunger arrival by using kinetic energy. All of our controllers contain exceptional technology which allows the user to determine a hard hit and a dangerous hit. Our exceptional technology will monitor the number of consecutive hard hits and protect the equipment if needed by stopping immediately.
The kinetic energy used in this equipment is also meant to predict when a spring is likely to fail. The main goal of the system is to reduce physical inspections and human maintenance, while safely operating the well. Reducing the risk of running the equipment with a failed spring will also decrease the opportunity of spills or catastrophic damage on the system.
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More information about API 11PL Plunger Lift Lubricators and Related Equipment Specification ®, please visit the following links:
https://www.api.org/products-and-services/standards/purchase
This inform was elaborated by CEO of Smarter Controllers LLC.