24-Pet-A5 Petroleum Production Operations
Worked solutions to 6 past sittings (2014–2019), 30 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Standing's Flow-Efficiency Method (5 sittings): December 2019 Q2 · December 2018 Q2 · May 2018 Q2 · December 2017 Q2 · Undated paper Q2
- Electrical Submersible Pump (4 sittings): December 2019 Q4 · December 2018 Q5 · December 2017 Q5 · Undated paper Q5
- Hydraulic-Fracturing Evaluation (4 sittings): December 2018 Q2 · May 2018 Q2 · December 2017 Q2 · Undated paper Q2
- Nodal Analysis (4 sittings): December 2018 Q3 · May 2018 Q3 · December 2017 Q3 · Undated paper Q3
- Required Horsepower (4 sittings): December 2019 Q4 · December 2018 Q5 · December 2017 Q5 · Undated paper Q5
- Vogel IPR (4 sittings): December 2018 Q2 · May 2018 Q3 · December 2017 Q2 · Undated paper Q2
- Gas-Lift Design (3 sittings): December 2018 Q3 · December 2017 Q3 · Undated paper Q4
- Natural Flow Check (3 sittings): December 2018 Q3 · December 2017 Q3 · Undated paper Q4
- Rod-Pump Sizing (3 sittings): December 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · Undated paper Q1
- Straight-Line IPR (3 sittings): December 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · Undated paper Q1
- Fetkovich IPR (2 sittings): December 2019 Q1 · May 2018 Q1
- Gravel-Pack Completion (2 sittings): December 2018 Q4 · December 2017 Q4
- Producing Capacity (2 sittings): December 2018 Q4 · December 2017 Q4
- Standing's Method (2 sittings): December 2019 Q5 · December 2014 Q5
- Vogel (2 sittings): December 2019 Q1 · December 2014 Q1
Questions by sitting
December 2019
- Question 1: Vogel and Fetkovich IPR — Single-Point and Four-Point Tests
- Question 2: Standing's Flow-Efficiency Method — Two-Point Test and Post-Frac Skin
- Question 3: Continuous Gas-Lift Design — Point of Injection and Injection Gas Rate
- Question 4: Electrical Submersible Pump — Required Horsepower
- Question 5: Standing's Method — Future IPR for a Weak Water-Drive Reservoir
December 2018
- Question 1: Rod-Pump Sizing — Straight-Line IPR
- Question 2: Vogel IPR and Standing's Flow-Efficiency Method — Hydraulic-Fracturing Evaluation
- Question 3: Nodal Analysis — Natural Flow Check and Gas-Lift Design
- Question 4: Gravel-Pack Completion — Producing Capacity
- Question 5: Electrical Submersible Pump — Required Horsepower
May 2018
- Question 1: Fetkovich IPR — Isochronal Test and Two-Rate Sensitivity
- Question 2: Standing's Flow-Efficiency Method — Hydraulic-Fracturing Evaluation
- Question 3: Nodal Analysis — Vogel IPR vs. Tubing Intake, Natural Flow and Gas-Lift Requirement
- Question 4: Gas-Lift Valve Mechanics — Force Balance for Valve No. 3
- Question 5: Two-Slurry Cementing Job — Slurry Volumes and Sack Counts
December 2017
- Question 1: Rod-Pump Sizing — Straight-Line IPR
- Question 2: Vogel IPR and Standing's Flow-Efficiency Method — Hydraulic-Fracturing Evaluation
- Question 3: Nodal Analysis — Natural Flow Check and Gas-Lift Design
- Question 4: Gravel-Pack Completion — Producing Capacity
- Question 5: Electrical Submersible Pump — Required Horsepower
December 2014
- Question 1: Inflow Performance — Vogel and Fetkovich Methods
- Question 2: Flow Efficiency, AOF, and Hydraulic Fracturing Response
- Question 3: Continuous Gas Lift Design
- Question 4: Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) Sizing
- Question 5: Standing's Method — Predicting Future IPR
Undated paper
- Question 1: Rod-Pump Sizing — Straight-Line IPR
- Question 2: Vogel IPR and Standing's Flow-Efficiency Method — Hydraulic-Fracturing Evaluation
- Question 3: Nodal Analysis and Choke Sizing — Vogel IPR to a Fixed Wellhead Pressure
- Question 4: Nodal Analysis — Natural Flow Check and Gas-Lift Design
- Question 5: Electrical Submersible Pump — Required Horsepower