"Gas Well Liquid Loading"
Larry Harms

There are hundreds of thousands of gas wells in the USA that are flowing below critical rate with no artificial lift and no/few other measures being taken to prevent/manage liquid loading and optimize production.

Why did we let them load up in the first place? Can this be avoided? Can we optimize them even after they are loaded? Can we afford to do anything different? Which wells should we focus on first?

This presentation will show that there is a more optimal economic approach (including field examples) for operating conventional or unconventional gas wells.

Starting now, even if they are already loaded up you can easily/cheaply implement this in your field and “Never Load Up Another Gas Well”.

LARRY HARMS is a production optimization specialist at his consulting company, Optimization Harmsway LLC, established after a 38-year career with ConocoPhillips. At he specialized in holistic production optimization and was a leader of the Artificial Lift Network for 10 years. Larry has served on the Board of Directors of the Artificial Lift Research and Development Council since 2008. He has written/co-authored 11 SPE papers on topics ranging from the application of artificial lift, velocity strings and compression to integrated production modeling and optimization. Larry has conducted training courses for hundreds of industry and ConocoPhillips engineering, operations, and maintenance personnel on artificial lift, compression, production optimization, systems nodal analysis, integrated production modeling, and gas well .