×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Production tubing failure on gas lifted well

Production tubing failure on gas lifted well

Production tubing failure on gas lifted well

(OP)
I have an offshore platform.

Gas lifted well with lift gas in the 'A' annulus. If the production tubing suddenly & catastrophically fails, the wellhead will be rapidly pressurised to gas lift pressure. The rate of flow across the production choke will be massive with gas lift pressure upstream, way in excess of PSV capacity on the low pressure separator located downstream of the well.

Do I need to consider catastrophic tubing failure?

I suspect it might be a very unlikely scenario but not sure if its normally considered.

Thanks.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources