Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
(OP)
Dear All,
We are undergoing an Gas Plant Sweetening project. My Client is installing an Air Fin Cooler on the Wellheads, before entering the pipeline. The initial use was to reduce the temperature because he said it was too hot for any underground wrapping.
Because he already installed the Air Fin Cooler. He said, "Why not that we reduce also the fluid temperature, so that SS316L can be used instead of Incoloy / Incoloy cladding".
What I my concern is it realiable to depend on an Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads, to downgrade your material selection?
As we know, fluid from well is a 3 phase fluid, and also contain sands. Sometimes the tubes is will be clogged and the heat transfer efficiency will go down. Altough he will provide a 3 x 50% capacity, it will not be practical to clean your Air Fin tubes oftenly.
Is this Air Fin Cooler usage in an upstream onshore Wellheads are commonly use?
We are undergoing an Gas Plant Sweetening project. My Client is installing an Air Fin Cooler on the Wellheads, before entering the pipeline. The initial use was to reduce the temperature because he said it was too hot for any underground wrapping.
Because he already installed the Air Fin Cooler. He said, "Why not that we reduce also the fluid temperature, so that SS316L can be used instead of Incoloy / Incoloy cladding".
What I my concern is it realiable to depend on an Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads, to downgrade your material selection?
As we know, fluid from well is a 3 phase fluid, and also contain sands. Sometimes the tubes is will be clogged and the heat transfer efficiency will go down. Altough he will provide a 3 x 50% capacity, it will not be practical to clean your Air Fin tubes oftenly.
Is this Air Fin Cooler usage in an upstream onshore Wellheads are commonly use?





RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
If I started down this road, I'd make sure I had a control on high cooler outlet temp so I could choke the well back as temp approached the limit for the piping material.
I always hate installing surface equipment that can limit reservoir performance in order to protect surface artifacts. I only want to control flow from a well for reservoir reasons, never for equipment-limitations. That strategy tends to increase ultimate recovery by 20-60% of OGIP (or OOIP). In one field we increased the recovery per well from a projected 3 BsCF/well to 20 BsCF/well (nearly 7000%, but that was a really special case). At $3/MSCF that is $34 million/well (undiscounted)--the extra $100k we spent on surface kit was a pretty good investment.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. —Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
Have anyone used it to control the gas well temperature?
RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. —Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
Yes, we apply temp shut down incase temp goes high above the limit of the SS
RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
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RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads
RE: Air Fin Cooler on Wellheads